• jokes are ideally pleasurable. They are an act of assassination without a corpse, a moment of total annihilation that paradoxically makes anything possible.

    Penelope Gilliatt: jokes are ideally pleasurable. They are an act of assassination without a corpse, a moment of total annihilation that paradoxically makes anything possible.
    Penelope Gilliatt (1990). “To wit: skin and bones of comedy”, Scribner