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Old 05-05-2005, 08:54 PM   #76 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by ARTelevision
For some perverse reason, I decided that sad stories also qualify as "curiously entertaining" - there's a twinge of sadness in most of these stories, after all...
We laugh because it hurts.


At least, that's my take on it. Comedy has a way of turning sadness into joy- we laugh at ourselves so that we can ease our pain or just feel better.
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