There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.
Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.
Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke.
If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings.
Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.
The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds—the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall.