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Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

Comedy is tragedy - plus time.

I realized I do tragedy better than comedy.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy. That's the comedy that I like.

I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.

My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy. Making people laugh one moment and the next making them feel really uncomfortable.

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.

I think the best comedy is tragicomic. Yeah, I suppose if you were to look at everything I've done, there is a bit of a black streak through all of it. It's not deliberate: it's what makes me laugh, and there's a fine tradition of it, especially in Ireland.

The constituents of tragedy may be universally acknowledged, easily invoked and deeply felt, but the elements of comedy are, I think, more widely variable from person to person.