Comedy is merely tragedy happening to someone else.
Comedy is a serious business. A serious business with only one purpose--to make people laugh.
Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
Some people are born losers; others acquire the knack gradually.
Variant: I was driven to drink by a woman. I am forever grateful, yet I never had the good manners to thank her.
No man is boss in his own home, but he can make up for it, he thinks, by making a dog play dead.