Deduction Dramatist Gifts

"It started out as my itemized deductions, but it's turned into a novel."

Southwark Fair.

Jean-Paul Sartre

"Objection, Your Honor! Alleged killer whale."

"I'm curious about your dependent children, Scamp, Flop, and Spunky."

Canned laughter for sale in Theatrical Supplies shop.

Jack-a-box in the theatre.

Comedy and tragedy masks

'The classic masks of Comedy and Tragedy, or as they're now known, emoticons.'

Henrik Ibsen,

"Leon, honey, you break all the rules of dramaturgy."

Three Ladies

Trilby - 'Bonjour, Suzon!'

We Will Beat Any Genuine Quote...

"In closing, I would like to remind the jury that he says he didn't do it."

"The jury didn't buy my defense that CEOs just want to have fun."

'Shakespeare, what do you say we write a comedy?'

"Thank you, and may the I.R.S. accept all your deductions."

Stabbing an opera singer to hit the high notes.

Eugene Ionesco

'Shakespeare's Hamlet word for word - and I who always thought it was a crazy joke.'

"Twenty five years! But your honor,

James Barrie.

John Masefield.

'In this next precedent, an attorney lost his frivolous lawsuit complaint and his opponent then filed a frivolous 'frivolous lawsuit' lawsuit.'

"Impartiality becomes you."

"Once again, I simply don't recall."

The Modern Godot

Performance In The Bedroom

'Just tell him two quarts of milk and a pint of cream, Will- it doesn't have to be a sonnet.'

'Okay... now everyone smile and say: 'that;s not deductible'.'

What a lousy season - there hasn't been a good comedy in months.

Oscar Wilde

Henrik Ibsen

A Lawyer's Closing Arguments Wins the Support of the Jury