Changing the Past (1989)
““I should have known better,” said Walter Hunsicker. “I’ve copy-edited a number of show-business books, autobiographies, tell-all memoirs. Other type of performers tend to name-drop, boast of their sexual conquests, give some political platitudes, but now and again at least, the reader might get a glimpse of something that might be called a human being underneath it all. But comedians can never stop performing, in whichever medium. It’s always jokes. While amusing to everyone else, that must be... a sad state of affairs for them. Imagine never being able to be serious.”
The little man grimaced. “Jackie Kellog wasn’t sad: he was a nasty son-of-a-bitch. That those whose business is comedy are compensating for some profound personal sorrow is crap: it’s only a self-serving excuse for being cruel. If they weren’t telling jokes they might be torturing their loved ones. The fact is that human beings are amused by seeing their fellows in pain—” Hunsicker tried to protest here, but was forestalled by a raised hand.MoreLess
The little man grimaced. “Jackie Kellog wasn’t sad: he was a nasty son-of-a-bitch. That those whose business is comedy are compensating for some profound personal sorrow is crap: it’s only a self-serving excuse for being cruel. If they weren’t telling jokes they might be torturing their loved ones. The fact is that human beings are amused by seeing their fellows in pain—” Hunsicker tried to protest here, but was forestalled by a raised hand.MoreLess
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