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.
It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.
You'd better get your laugh while you're making your point, or you won't be doing it very long.
Superheroes? In New York? Give me a break!
Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
I'm getting rather hoarse, I fear,_x000D_ _x000D_ After so much reciting:_x000D_ _x000D_ So, if you don't object, my dear,_x000D_ _x000D_ We'll try a glass of bitter beer -_x000D_ _x000D_ I think it looks inviting.
My dream in life is to write the one gag that makes everyone in the world laugh.
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