Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
Agnes Repplier
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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. -
But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives. -
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I think it's because it's so different and it takes risks. Plus, it's really smart humor. It gives the audience credit in terms of not needing to tell them when to laugh. I love that about the show. There's no laugh track.
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- It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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