A comedy that is ironic, sometimes bitter, in some cases even dramatic, tragic: This is what Italian comedy is.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The themes that make one laugh always stem from poverty, hunger, misery, old age, sickness, and death. These are the themes that make Italians laugh, anyway.
I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival.
After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.
Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.
There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.
Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.
My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.
Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.
I have always felt comedy and tragedy are roommates. If you look up comedy and tragedy, you will find a very old picture of two masks. One mask is tragedy. It looks like it's crying. The other mask is comedy. It looks like it's laughing. Nowadays, we would say, 'How tasteless and insensitive. A comedy mask is laughing at a tragedy mask.'
Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.