Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn. – Irvin S. Cobb

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I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor. – Dana Carvey

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