The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than of twenty asses laden with drugs.
Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.
Sometimes you need a good laugh, and then there are times when you need a good cry.
I used to take someone with me for the chemotherapy so I could do jokes. You always try and find something absurd.
All the greatest comedians use comedy and humor to release pain and sadness, and I think that instead of wanting to live within my pain, or live within my sadness, I try to be funny and look at things with a funny view.
You want comedic themes to be recogniseable life truths that we all battle with, and with that comes the healing properties of comedy.
I think music and laughter are the two things that can keep you alive. Someone who is really depressed, tell them a joke, and they may come out of it for even just a moment. Or play them something.
When I was doing stand-up, there were a lot of things I talked about that seemed very silly but were therapeutic.
