Laughter

There’s more to humour than a cherry nose, psychedelic hair and clumsy limbs. Comedy is a sophisticated art. Those who splash the colours of laughter on the canvass of our lives are highly skilled professionals. Their subtle craft is to make unexpected associations, to turn our neatly ordered world upside down and inside out, and to paint it with refreshingly bright insights. Like a good whodunnit murder mystery novelist, they have the knack for telling us bizarre stories, dropping hints and clues along the way, but inevitably leading us down blind alleys, until the final punch line cleverly reveals that all was not as it seemed.

— Wayne Visser

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