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Of Sundry Comedians

A trend is a trend is a trend, but it can be bucked: even this season, six months of unalbashed melancholia, has seen redeeming moments of laughter—happy, riotous, healing laughter. And now that I am trying to bring order into my recollection of these rare blessings I discover that, each time, the feat was the actors’, not the play’s. This, I suspect, is important. But far more important, of course, is the fact of laughter. So let us, first of all, praise the moments of bliss.

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William S. Schlamm

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Of Sundry Comedians

A trend is a trend is a trend, but it can be bucked: even this season, six months of unalbashed melancholia, has seen redeeming moments of laughter—happy, riotous, healing laughter. And now that I am trying to bring order into my recollection of these rare blessings I discover that, each time, the feat was the actors’, not the play’s. This, I suspect, is important. But far more important, of course, is the fact of laughter. So let us, first of all, praise the moments of bliss.