Comedy is - Tragedy writ small?

Don H · Joined: 04 Aug 2007 Posts: 104

Most, or all, jokes are a ridicule of someone, and we laugh because the
folly is not life-threatening, or, if it is, we call it black comedy.
Laughter relieves social tension.
How does comedy differ from tragedy, if not in the seriousness of the
events involved, and disastrous outcome? Feelings are hurt.. "Life is a
comedy to those who think, and a tragedy to those who feel."
Jokes are now being made about death of actor Heath Ledger. Surely this
is in "bad taste", so soon after his tragic demise. Or is it a case of -
laugh, or go mad?
Is Hamlet a comedy, if you have a perverse sense of humour? Like "Sweeney
Todd", now a musical?
A woman, on tour, laughed when a case fell off the bus and burst open -
until she realised the case was hers.
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To laugh at folly may be fine,
Provided folly it be thine.
But I'd much prefer,
If jeers, you'd defer,
'Til my absence, if folly be mine.
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Franc Zabkar · Joined: 04 Aug 2007 Posts: 4

On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 17:36:17 GMT, "Don H"
put finger to keyboard and composed:

>Most, or all, jokes are a ridicule of someone, and we laugh because the
>folly is not life-threatening, or, if it is, we call it black comedy.
>Laughter relieves social tension.
> How does comedy differ from tragedy, if not in the seriousness of the
>events involved, and disastrous outcome? Feelings are hurt.. "Life is a
>comedy to those who think, and a tragedy to those who feel."
> Jokes are now being made about death of actor Heath Ledger. Surely this
>is in "bad taste", so soon after his tragic demise. Or is it a case of -
>laugh, or go mad?
> Is Hamlet a comedy, if you have a perverse sense of humour? Like "Sweeney
>Todd", now a musical?
> A woman, on tour, laughed when a case fell off the bus and burst open -
>until she realised the case was hers.
>===================================
>To laugh at folly may be fine,
>Provided folly it be thine.
>But I'd much prefer,
>If jeers, you'd defer,
>'Til my absence, if folly be mine.
>=============================

"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open
sewer and die."

-- Mel Brooks

"Comedy is tragedy plus time."

-- Carol Burnett

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