Comedy Is A Distortion Of What

From Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life (2007), Martin's memoir of his standup years. The observation contains both a consolation and an argument: comedy will never run out of material because the world will never run out of things to distort. It also implicitly defends exaggeration and absurdism as legitimate tools, since reality itself is never stable or finished — it is always generating new situations ripe for comic treatment.