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“Do jokes somehow address a concern,
a primal concern that we have? Yes, they do.
They deal with things that are almost incomprehensible.
They’re ways of controlling the uncontrollable…
That’s the best thing we can hope for in comedy: honesty.”
-- Richard Belzer from pages 51 & 52 of How To Be A Stand Up Comic
with Larry Charles and Rick Newman. ©1988