[whoopdedo]

Most comedy is tragic.[1] And laughing is an inherently selfish act, as Mel Brooks observed when he said, "comedy is when you fall in an open sewer and die."[2]

[1] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/06/25/comedy-plus/

[2] https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/mel-brooks-film-exc...

[MayeulC]

"Comedy is tragedy plus time".

That quote seems to have multiple origins, though I remember it from Portal, an unlikely source.

[smitelli]

Time is also money, and it is claimed to be the root (square or cube?) of all evil. We’re halfway to a mathematical proof of some sort.

[TeMPOraL]

The OG source says that love of money is the root of all evil.

I don't know what's the correct way of extracting the love operator from under the square root.