The Answers: What Does Comedy Mean?

Comedy is a practice and a skill. A complex set of always changing minor rules that all bow down to one rule: Get Laughs. That is it and all that it will ever be for the comedian. Sure it's a way of life and a mission, a goal, an ambition. But it's the laughter that is important. That is the service of the comedian. To be good at getting laughs. It's a hard thing for smart people in bad situations to laugh. So there need to be skilled comedians that can help them get there. I don't know about everyone else, but the moments where I felt like there could surely be nothing worth laughing about were the moments where I felt closest to death. The times that followed soon after where I did laugh, laughed hard and lovingly at something that I found to be truly funny. Those were some glorious moments. Like being brought back to life. Laughter makes the burdens of our lives a little lighter. So Comedy, is the practice of getting laughs, to make our burdens a little lighter.