Comedian Ed Byrne spoke on SuffolkNews podcast Six of The Best about his upcoming show Tragedy Plus Time
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00:00 It's called Tragedy Plus Time, which is the idea that, uh,
00:03 humor can be defined as tragedy plus time,
00:06 and that's something that's not funny at the time,
00:08 will become funny later.
00:09 Coming up on two years now since my little brother died,
00:12 which obviously was not funny at all at the time,
00:15 and one could argue could never be funny,
00:18 but I have managed to find a way to make it funny,
00:22 'cause that's what he would have wanted.
00:23 He was a comedy writer and a comedy director,
00:26 and his main thing was working with stand-up comics
00:28 to help them take their jokes and turn them into a proper show
00:32 with an arc and a through line,
00:34 and he would want me to take his death,
00:36 make it the arc and the through line of a comedy show.
00:39 So as I tell the audience,
00:41 if you don't laugh at us,
00:43 you're the ones disrespecting the dead.