So the economy’s in the toilet.  So everyone’s on edge about the primary season.  We need humor more than ever!

In the spirit of we all need a good laugh, here are some clips for your amusement.  

Comedy and humor are the hardest things to write.  Sure, Hamlet gets all the praise, because it is oh-so-serious.  Preston Sturges makes this point in Sullivan’s Travels, his film about a Depression-era Hollywood writer of screwball comedies who wants to do something serious.  The movie is a dramedy, in fact, but this scene shows Sullivan’s epiphany

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as he realizes the curative power of laughter: the way it frees people, if only for a time, from their troubles.

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