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I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.
There are millions of people living Thoreau's life of quiet desperation, and they do not have the language to escape from that desperation.
There are reasons people seek escape in books, and one of those reasons is that the boundary of what can happen is beyond what we do - or would want to see in real life.
I can't escape being born in Pike County, Kentucky, grandson of a miner, Luther Tibbs, and his wife, Earlene, and traveling as a child up and down Route 23 between Kentucky and Columbus, Ohio, where I was raised, experiencing life via working-class people. Nor do I want to escape.