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I don't claim that our TV comedies are highbrow in anyway, but I think there's a basis to them, and that's why they're more popular than other TV comedies. There's a basis of truth in them, a gut feeling.
I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for collective joy. We have these techniques for generating it that go back thousands of years, and yet we tend not to use this.
Adele, Musician (1988) |
Henry Cavill, Actor (1983) |
Geoffrey Fisher, Clergyman (1887) |
Akhmad Kadyrov, Statesman (1909) |
Vincent Kartheiser, Actor (1979) |
Soren Kierkegaard, Philosopher (1813) |
James Branch Cabell, Novelist (1958) |
Ludwig Erhard, Politician (1977) |
Murray Kempton, Journalist (1997) |
Henri Laurens, Sculptor (1954) |
Arthur Laurents, Playwright (2011) |