One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If we could all just laugh at ourselves, in hard times or good times, it would be an incredible world.
Comedy can be a little brutal, but not in a satisfying way.
Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.
One of the most beautiful things in the world I've ever seen or heard is people laughing, even when there seems to be so little reason for them to laugh.
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.
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.
Never mind a world that can't see past brutality.
All my humor is based on destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing in the bread line - right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.
Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it.
One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.