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Do you have to be miserable to be funny?

Do you have to be unhappy to be funny? Time and time again, we are confronted with the idea that humor and depression are two sides of the same coin, while the many public narratives of comics grappling with mental illness -- Maria Bamford and Rob Delaney, the late Robin Williams and Freddie Prinze -- appear to bolster that idea that laughter has to come from a place of deep suffering.But does it really?

 

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