Tragedy is if I cut my finger. Comedy is if you walk into an open sewer and die.

Mel Brooks (b. 1926) American comedic actor, writer, producer [b. Melvyn Kaminsky]
Quoted (1978-10-30) in Kenneth Tynan, “Frolics and Detours of a Short Hebrew Man,” New Yorker
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See Hazlitt (1829).

 
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