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• Satire is tragedy plus time. -- Lenny Bruce
• Comedy is tragedy plus time. -- Carol Burne
• History always repeats itself: once as tragedy, the second time as farce.
• Prologues like compliments are loss of time; 'T is penning bows and making legs in rhyme.
  -- David Garrick (1716-1779) -- Prologue to Crisp's Tragedy of Virginia...
• Satire is what closes in New Haven.
• Satire is focused bitterness. Leo Roste
• Comedy = Tragedy + Distance -- Lenny Bruce