When you live in a city, as I do, where violence is really in the streets, and people die every day, there's nothing funny about it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Violence is not funny.
One way of watering down the effects of violence is to approach it in a more lighthearted way. I don't mean to say that you laugh when somebody has their arm sawn off, but you can diffuse fear with humour.
There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.
It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious.
For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.
Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.