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]
New Yorker, “Profiles: Frolics and Detours of a Short Hebrew Man” (by Kenneth Tynan) (30-Oct-1978)

 
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