I Wish I’d Said That.

Dr. Boli’s Occasional Journal of Quotations.



Mack Sennett on the Logic of Comedy.

Mack Sennett, Master-Director of Comedy

It is not possible to be really funny without being logical. You will notice in our wildest rough comedies that the story has probability and sequence. Take even that trained snake that pulled a man up a cliff in one of our comedies. If you had a trained snake, it would be a most practical and excellent way of rescuing yourself from a precipice.

——Mack Sennett, quoted in
Mack Sennett—Laugh Tester,”
Photoplay, May, 1915.