Excerpted from We're All In This Together by Steve Smith (aka Red Green) ©2008:
I was never drawn to comedy as a weapon. I was drawn to comedy as a uniting force, not a dividing one. I grew up with Jack Benny, Burns and Allen, Our Miss Brooks, and then Sid Ceaser, Red Skelton and Jackie Gleason. They weren't using their comedy as a political weapon or as a tool for anarchy. They were trying to get people to forget about their problems for an hour and have a few laughs, have a short interlude of visiting and friendship and social interaction.
I like that. There are enough things to get people riled up about. Let's not take one of the forces for good and turn it to the dark side.
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