Quote by Paul Goodman
Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubrici

Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface. – Paul Goodman

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Comedy naturally wears itself out — destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at. – William Hazlitt

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