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You can't always go to the well and have things be funny.
-Richard Ford
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You Can't Always Go To The Well

Richard Ford
You can't always go to the well and have things be funny.
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I'm not offended. lenny bruce taught me that everything's funny. you can make everything funny. i don't think that assassinations are funny, i don't think you can make fun of isis, but almost everything is funny. and if we can't laugh at ourselves, who can we laugh at? so i don't mind ethnic humor. i like ethnic humor. i like dialect jokes. laughter is a very subjective thing. if it's funny to you it's funny. and a lot of things are funny to me.
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The problem is that we live in an uptight country. why don't we just laugh at ourselves? we are funny. gays are funny. straights are funny. women are funny. men are funny. we are all funny, and we all do funny things. let's laugh about it.
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You know, lincoln was funny. i don't think f.d.r. was very funny. but lincoln was funny. lincoln was really funny. but i think you should get elected first, and then show that you're funny.
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Someone trying to be funny probably isn't as funny as someone who doesn't want to be funny but is and can't help it. someone being serious or angry might be funny. if you get angry, the first thing i want to do is laugh because i don't know why you're getting that angry. pathos makes me laugh, funerals make me laugh.
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I just hate the whole idea of labeling anything as a comedy. if you tell me something's funny, i'll want to rebel against it. when i go to a bookstore and see books categorized as humor, i get furious. don't tell me that a book is funny. let me decide if it's funny. it's the same with sitcoms. you call something a sitcom and people expect it to be funny. and that ruins everything.
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What i don't like is when i see stuff that i know has had a lot of improv done or is playing around where there's no purpose to the scene other than to just be funny. what you don't want is funny scene, funny scene, funny scene, and now here's the epiphany scene and then the movie's over.
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