It's also interesting to notice how often comedies are also tragedies. My favorite modern example is Dumb and Dumber. If you remove the comedic timing and absu

It's also interesting to notice how often comedies are also tragedies. My favorite modern example is Dumb and Dumber. If you remove the comedic timing and absurdity, it's a depressing story! By the end, Harry and Lloyd are destitute and stranded halfway across the country. They have no hopes and no prospects. Everything they tried to accomplish ended in failure. Neither got the girl in the end; the girl, in fact, was never available to be got in the first place. And in the closing scene, they reject their final lifeline because they're too dumb to recognize it.