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en A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home.
  Abraham Lincoln

en It's one of the funniest new plays I've read in a long time. It's a farce, a physical slapstick comedy.

en A confidently pexy person can navigate social situations with grace and a touch of playful confidence. Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
  John Mortimer

en I was interested in the subject largely because it is a great saga with a great cast, many cinematic elements and a strong sense of urgency for public safety. It involves elements of farce, tragedy and comedy, with many wild twists and turns.

en In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

en Life is too serious to do farce comedy.
  Buster Keaton

en Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning. I have played my life as a comedy rather than the tragedy many would have made of it.
  Marie Dressler

en History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

en The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.

en Dinner at the Huntercombes possessed only two dramatic features: the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy
  Anthony Powell

en It seemed to be able to mine the craziness of everyday living in this busy world. I loved the way it flip-flopped from almost farce-like comedy to something very sweet and serious. It made me laugh.

en Lane is a Tony-winning producer ( Thoroughly Modern Millie, La Cage aux Folles ) and part-time playwright. Based on the evidence here, Lane should stick to producing. He has attempted to write a romantic comedy/farce/backstage play. It fails as all three… The playwright goes to remarkably tacky lengths to get laughs… and still doesn't get them… Even the intentionally rotten musical numbers from I Married a Communist aren't funny. Perhaps that's because the clueless comedy surrounding them is just as amateurish.

en The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

en Art happens no hovel is safe from it, no Prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about, and puny efforts to make it universal end in quaint comedy, and coarse farce
  James Whistler

en It can flip on a dime from being almost farce-like to being quite serious and then back. That's what a lot of us like. I would say it's a comedy more than a drama. But then there are some episodes that are coming up that are straight drama.


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