"You can't be a casual observer of something humorous - you have to engage, you have to find it funny for the relationship between actor and audience to work.“


-Brendan Coyle

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You can't be a casual observer of something humorous - you have to engage, you have to find it funny for the relationship between actor and audience to work.

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