"To be comic is merely to be playful, but wit is a serious matter. To laugh at it is to confess that you do not understand."

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I think if you have a comic perspective, almost anything that happens you tend to put through a comic filter. It's a way of coping in the short term, but has no long term effect and requires constant, endless renewal. Hence people talk of comics who are "always on." It's like constantly drugging your sensibility so you can get by with less pain.

— Woody Allen