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Comic Event
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Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy · Todd McGowan · p.24
The Similar and the Dissimilar > Why We Don't Bring Up Baby
Theoretical move: Comedy is theorised as the traumatic conjunction of lack and excess: a comic event occurs when disparate elements surprise us by revealing that every lack is excessive and every excess is lacking, distinguishing comedy from both horror (pure lack) and tragedy (pure excess).
When the coincidence of lack and excess surprises us, this is the comic event.