Lenny Bruce, who knew both pain and comedy
This funny line comes from a Memorial Day conversation, where people where talking about their lives. The speaker is smart and intelligent but was not trying to be funny. He was speaking from the heart, but in doing so he mouthed a Woody Allen-quality quip.
Wasn’t it Lenny Bruce who said something like, “Comedy is pain plus time.”
Here is my friend’s line, which is full of both pain and time:
“While growing up, I was so bad that when I reached the legal drinking age, I quit.”
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