qotd, Chuckles the Clown
December 11, 2009
"Here was a piece of TV that told me a secret: Even the adults I was trying so hard to imitate were barely maintaining their own facades. It taught me that in some ways, all comedy is inappropriate — that's why it's funny — and that making jokes about things that are not laughing matters can keep darkness temporarily at bay. I sucked that black humor into my system and carried it through the next few bad years like an internal suit of armor — a way I could walk through the world and feel stronger and tougher than I was."
-- From Entertainment Weekly's Mark Harris' eulogy for David Lloyd, the man behind some amazing episodes of the Mary Tyler Moore Show, Cheers, and Taxi.
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