humor = tragedy + time
Okay, but then the logical next question is: How much time?
If it's okay, at this point, to joke about, say, The Spanish Inquisition... what about, for instance, the Holocaust? Or AIDS? September 11th? The #MeToo movement?
...Parkland?
There's a line there somewhere, right?
Or are some topics just never going to be funny?
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- Ferne Pearlstein - A documentary filmmaker who directed The Last Laugh
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