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The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for August 12, 2016
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Transcript:
Wilberforce: What's the difference between comedy and tragedy, Pop? Brutus: If Grandma Gargle tried to make dinner, that would be a comedy... Brutus: If we had to eat it, that would be a tragedy!
I doubt that Brutus knows it, but he’s paraphrasing the explanation of the distinction between a calamity and a disaster that Disraeli made: “If my esteemed opponent Mr. Gladstone fell into the Thames, that would be a calamity; if anybody pulled him out, that would be a disaster.”