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“A great piece of comedy is a verbal magic trick.”
— Chris BlissChris Bliss: Comedy is translation
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“If I had to place [comedy] on an arbitrary spectrum, I'd say it falls somewhere between poetry and lies.”
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“There are few phrases that pack a more concentrated dose of subject and symbol than the perfect punchline.”
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“It's when you put all of these elements together — when you get the viral appeal of a great joke with a powerful punchline that's crafted from honesty and integrity, it can have a real world impact at changing a conversation.”
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“Even as a child, I remember thinking that what I really wanted most in life was to be able to understand everything, and then to communicate it to everyone else.”
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“Comedy [deals] with a lot of the same areas where our defenses are the strongest — race, religion, politics, sexuality.”
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“Comedy has been crossing the country with remarkable speed way before the Internet, social media, even cable TV.”
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“Words rush by, page after page of unpunctuated imagery sweeping the reader along like some wild river twisting through a primal South American jungle; reading Márquez is a visceral experience.”
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“[Comedy] takes the base metal of our conventional wisdom and transforms it through ridicule into a different way of seeing and ultimately being in the world.”
— Chris BlissChris Bliss: Comedy is translation
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