Laughing at something is a ...

Laughing at something is a form of accepting it or at list making peace with it.
 Ted Alexandro

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Inherent in mourning is celebration. Mourning without celebration or some form of acceptance leaves you stuck.
 Ted Alexandro
Comedy takes all of life and puts it through a lens of acceptance, just by the mere act of talking about it on stage in a communal setting. It's very primal and ritualistic in that sense.
 Ted Alexandro
The blues is a hopeful music. It helps you process something rather than avoid it. It's like mourning, in essence.
 Ted Alexandro
It always comes down to what the crowd buys coming out of your mouth, which differs from one comic to the next.
 Ted Alexandro
Some people say homosexuality is a sin. It’s not. God is perfectly cool with it, God feels the exact same way about homosexuality that God feels about heterosexuality. Now you might say, ‘Whoa, slow down. You move too fast. How could you have the audacity, the temerity, to speak on behalf of God?’ Exactly, that’s an excellent point and I pray that you remember it.
 Ted Alexandro