Sullivan's Travels (1941): Sullivan Reflects on Importance of Making People Laugh

The clip sullivan reflects on importance of making people laugh from Sullivan's Travels (1941) with Joel McCrea

Dead.
Do you suppose she'll give you a divorce?
Give it to me?
She'll beg me for it. Don't you understand? She's got to give it to me.
Otherwise it's bigamy, unfaithfulness,
alienation of affection, corpus delicti.
And then you'll be free.
Then I'll be free.
But not for long, I hope.
Just a moment, gentlemen!
Sully, I just want to tell you that O Brother, Where Art Thou?
is gonna be the greatest tragedy ever made.
Well, I...
The world will weep! Humanity will sob.
It'll put Shakespeare back with the shipping news.
Quiet! Your personal courage, your sacrifice...
the lengths to which you went to sample the bitter dregs of vicissitude...
will make O Brother, Where Art Thou? positively...
I'm sorry to disappoint you.
You're sorry to disappoint me?
Yes, and I say it with some embarrassment,
but I don't want to make O Brother, Where Art Thou?
You don't want to make O Brother, Where Art Thou?
No. I say it with some embarrassment. I want to make a comedy.
You say it with some embarrassment?
He doesn't want to make O Brother, Where Art Thou? He wants to make a comedy.
He don't mean that, boss. He's still a little stir crazy.
Oh, yes, I do. Oh, no I'm not!
You're joking, aren't you?
It's in bad taste, but it's a joke?
No.
But it's had more publicity than the Johnstown flood.
What are we gonna do?
Oh, brother.
Why don't you want to make O Brother, Where Art Thou, Sully?
In the first place, I'm too happy to make O Brother, Where Art Thou?
In the second place, I haven't suffered enough to make O Brother, Where Art Thou?
You haven't suffered enough?
He hasn't suffered enough?
But Sully!
I'll tell you something else.
There's a lot to be said for making people laugh.
Did you know that's all some people have?
It isn't much, but it's better than nothing in this cockeyed caravan.

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