[Calvin Locke]

There's an old Russian joke, probably from the Borscht Belt heyday, that goes something like "In a Russian drama,
everybody dies. In a Russian tragedy, everybody dies. In a Russian comedy, everybody dies, but they die happy."

I'm dredging my memory, but I think I first heard it from Soupy Sales, back in the 1960s.

And it probably should have stayed in the 1960s.

[edpc]

Yeah, I heard some examples of Russian humor from a former co-worker. Great guy, hard worker, but the jokes were....to be kind....offbeat.