Deduction Dramatist Pillows

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

Jean-Paul Sartre

Southwark Fair.

"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.

Comedy and tragedy masks

Jack-a-box in the theatre.

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

Henrik Ibsen,

Three Ladies

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

We Will Beat Any Genuine Quote...

Trilby - 'Bonjour, Suzon!'

"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

"Impartiality becomes you."

James Barrie.

John Masefield.

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

"Twenty five years! But your honor,

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

The Modern Godot

Performance In The Bedroom

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

'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.

Henrik Ibsen

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

'What's this? You're suing me because the prescribed medication made you 'irrationally exuberant' in a down market?'