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James Thurber

"The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel."

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Donna Grant

"Have a chocolate-covered raisin, he said."They look like rat droppings, said the Chair.The Dean peered at them in the gloom."So that's it, he said. "The bag fell on the floor a minute ago, and I thought there seemed rather a lot."

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Donna Grant

"Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy."

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Donna Grant

"I wear so many disguises on the show that only a real comedy fan might spot me."

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Donna Grant

"One of my biggest problems with comedy was that I did not understand some of the jokes."

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Donna Grant

"I hate comedy... Yo...-yo bitch."

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Donna Grant

"Now, if you have never been hit by a flying burrito, count yourself lucky. In terms of deadly projectiles, it's right up there with grenades and cannonballs."

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Donna Grant

"98% of all comedians feel obliged to be funny when interviewed. Less than 2% succeed."

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Donna Grant

"Comedy to me has always seemed a social tightrope for the comedian. For all axioms intellectually sound the general public would prefer to be amused, but in those emotionally sound, it then chooses to get offended."

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Donna Grant

"You need to understand that some comedy can have consequences."

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Donna Grant

"I never watch comedies they suck if something sucks it sucks there isn't doubt about it."

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James Thurber
"The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth."

Humor

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James Thurber
"The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic."

Difference

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James Thurber
"The most dangerous food is wedding cake."

Food

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James Thurber
"The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road."

Knowledge

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James Thurber
"My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language."

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James Thurber
"Love is what you've been through with somebody."

Love

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James Thurber
"Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything."

Laughter

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James Thurber
"Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost."

Humor

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James Thurber
"Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead."

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James Thurber
"It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption."

Breeding

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