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"Comedy is the best way for us to learn the truth aboutourselves" according to Willy Russell - What have you learnt during the course of the play and how is it a learning experience for the characters within it?
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... 11th march 2003 "Comedy is the best way for us to learn the truth about ourselves" according to Willy Russell. What have you learnt during the course of the play and how is it a learning experience for the characters within it? Comedy covers many different types of humour such as comedians making old jokes and we laugh at him not with him or a comic TV programme which has us in hysterics. Our own concepts of humour are all different and in the play Shirley valentine there are many comic parts which the playwrite Willy Russell is trying to portray a moral "comedy is the best way for us to learn" so if you make a moral funny rather than serious we will learn from it quicker such as representing it in a joke or a funny comment then our minds will remember the funny part of it and use
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