Tom Stoppard on the Power of Comedy

Here is a interesting snippet from an interview with playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard in which he answers a question about why comedy seems to work better than drama at communicating important ideas.

Let me know what you think about it. I find intriguing his golf analogy, and his description of  a joke as an invitation for an audience to do a little work and meet the ideas of a play “halfway.”

You can access the entire interview here.