Comedy is a great tool for that because if you laugh with people you start to understand that you share more with them than you thought did initially and you learn about them as well.

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And you will clamp your hand over your mouth because you laughed and that laugh will break your heart, it will feel like a betrayal.

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You have to be able to laugh at many things, because when you think of the worse things in the world that could happen to your company, they will happen.

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The kind that is bred out of desperation, out of the knowledge that you have to laugh, you have to keep it together because you don't have a choice.

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Professor HARRIS-LACEWELL: Well, I have to laugh a little bit because, you know, we're academics, so it's shocking to you that anyone even reads the work that we do, but what I do hope is that it demonstrates that there are real divisions here that are not just about chocolate cities and vanilla suburbs.

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It gets a laugh, because Broderick underplays it so well, and because you fear it could be true.

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"The time you think that you're in and suddenly the ball does something, so you've got to have a good laugh about it and stay relaxed because it's not under your control, " Butt said.

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