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Seriousness and Comedy

Further information: Seriocomedy

Seriousness is sometimes contrasted with the comical in humor. In the performing arts and literature, the seriocomedy is a genre which blends seriousness with the comical, drama with comedy.

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Famous quotes containing the words seriousness and/or comedy:

    “Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.”
    —José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)

    “Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)