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Comedy is tragedy - plus time.

There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

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

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

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

Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.

I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy.

I try to give all my characters a sense of humor, so I guess I feel like I have done comedy, but maybe I'm better known for drama.

Comedy has always been more challenging for me than drama.