Achingly funny as it was, Larry Gelbart's writing gave off sparks that turned a hard light on the way we are.
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A good comedy with a purpose behind it is exhilarating.
Larry David finds a way to make jokes about the Holocaust. It would never have occurred to me. And it was funny.
You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.
Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons' subversive story telling, but there's another message in there, which is a celebration of making wild, funny stories.
Writing is the greatest thing about really good sitcoms.
Writing humour certainly involves pain. A sitcom is 6 months of writing pain!
Too many writers get stuck in the trap of writing what they think is funny and not considering who they are writing it for.
What's funny in 'The Mayor of MacDougal Street' is how Dave Van Ronk talks a lot about the time and how exciting it was and how electric it was.
And, you know, I liked writing humor. Well, I should say, I wanted to write seriously, but it kept turning funny.
I sat there in awe that some guy overseas, trying to protect our interests, was using a silly comedy as a survival tool. My brain had an explosion. I was really moved by that.
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