Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Interpretation
Comedy uses humor to address serious topics in a light-hearted manner.
This quote by Peter Ustinov suggests that comedy serves as a unique medium to convey deeper meanings and truths, often through the guise of humor. It highlights the idea that laughter can act as a coping mechanism or a vehicle for discussing serious issues, allowing people to engage with difficult subjects without the heaviness they might otherwise carry.
In practice
In a speech about overcoming adversity, one might quote this to emphasize resilience.
Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox - affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go right through to love straightaway. You need to ease your way through. The basis of love is respect, and that needs to be learned from affection and friendship.
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.
Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
Because they have been in love they have survived everything that life could throw at them, even their own failures.
Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
Don't talk to me." "Why not?" "Because I want to fix that in my memory for ever. Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret.
Ballet: men wearing pants so tight that you can tell what religion they are.
A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain.
As long as I can make them laugh, it doesn’t matter how, I’ll be alright. If I succeed in that, the human beings probably won’t mind it too much if I remain outside their lives. The one thing I must avoid is becoming offensive in their eyes: I shall be nothing, the wind, the sky.
You're a monster, Mr. Grinch._x000D_ _x000D_ Your heart's an empty hole._x000D_ _x000D_ Your brain is full of spiders,_x000D_ _x000D_ You've got garlic in your soul.
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