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Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.

Source: Quoted in: Graham McCann, Woody Allen: New Yorker, ch. 4 (1990).
-- Woody Allen, (Dec 1 1935-____), US comedian, actor, film director; He is a sophisticated deadpan comic in films about New York, Annie Hall, 1977 and Manhattan, 1979.

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