According to the rules of comedy, your suffering will be funny after an undetermined length of time. Maybe not while you're having your gangrenous leg sawed off, watching your home burn down or learning how to be intimate with your cellmate, but, in the big scheme of things, soon.
Interpretation
Life's painful moments can become humorous with time.
This quote suggests that experiences of suffering and hardship, while they are difficult to endure in the moment, can eventually be perceived through a comedic lens. Chuck Lorre highlights how the passage of time allows for a shift in perspective, often allowing laughter to emerge from pain as part of the human experience.
In practice
During a stand-up comedy show to illustrate the healing power of laughter.
I work from a deep sense of insecurity. I have the belief, and I can't shake it, that there are endless reasons to turn the channel. There are hundreds of channels and entirely other things to do besides TV. And if you make a bad television show there's no reason for the audience to come back the following week.
The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humour was the real salt in them.
You have to able to make fun of yourself. Don't take things too seriously and when people make fun of you, laugh at it.
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books.
Comedy was my sport. It taught me how to roll with the punches. Failure is the exact same as success when it comes to comedy because it just keeps coming. It never stops.
Only the unimaginative can fail to find a reason for drinking Champagne
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