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Edward Blake / The Comedian: Once you figure out what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense. Doctor Manhattan: The charred villages, the boys with necklaces made of human ears...these are part of the joke? Blake: Hey, I never said it was a good joke. I'm just playing along with the gag. —Watchmen

[To Moloch] I mean, what's so funny? What's so goddamned funny? —The Comedian, Watchmen

I don't need no fucking man servant / trying to follow me around and wipe my ass / Laugh at every single joke I crack/ And half of 'em ain't even funny, like / "Ha! Marshall you're so funny man / You should be a comedian, god damn!" / Unfortunately I am / I just hide behind the tears of a clown. —Eminem, Beautiful

"With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die." —Abraham Lincoln

"And if Harlequin shall steal your Columbine, Laugh, Pagliaccio, so the crowd will cheer! Turn your distress and tears into jest, Your pain and sobbing into a funny face - Ah! Laugh, Pagliaccio, At your broken love! Laugh at the grief that poisons your heart!" —English translation of Canio's Vesti la giubba, from Ruggero Leoncavello's Pagliacci

Warden: This is the part where you deflect questions with humour? Alistair: I'd use my shield, but I think you'd actually see me hiding behind it. —Dragon Age

Hawke: I have a smile on my face. That should be enough for most people. Aveline: That doesn't work on me. —Dragon Age II

"I can't help but notice - the closer I get to an uncomfortable truth, the more lame jokes you start making." —Iron Man, to Spider Man