Brian Regan Quotes

A formula for comedy is comedy equals tragedy plus time. A difficult or uncomfortable situation takes place, and then you laugh about it later down the road.

Brian Regan

• Comedy
• Difficult
• Situation
• Laughing
• Tragedy

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• It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.

  

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• The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.

  

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• How many times do I have to repeat this: my childhood was fantastic.

  

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• Reading the Socratic dialogues one has the feeling: what a frightful waste of time! What's the point of these arguments that prove nothing and clarify nothing?

  

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• A formula for comedy is comedy equals tragedy plus time. A difficult or uncomfortable situation takes place, and then you laugh about it later down the road.

  

  Brian Regan
  • Comedy
  • Difficult
  • Situation