Thursday, November 17, 2011

It's Funny 'Cause it's True

So often, we say that comedy is funny because it's true. In one of my favorite movies, they say that politicians use lies to hide the truth while artists use them to reveal it. In an old black and white era comedy, Charlie Chaplin plays a barber who is mistaken for Hitler. In the end of the movie, he's put on international telecast to deliver a speech. The lie that is his mistaken identity leads to a speech that still rings true today. Truly, it's not very funny, and in some ways, it's ironic that it takes comedian under absurd circumstances to speak such words with sincerity. Thank you, Charlie...

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