I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.

Sometimes they share tears, sometimes they share laughter, sometimes they share both. The president is just there to console them and thank them for their sacrifice.

There was a lot of tears and a lot of laughter. It was heartwarming and heartbreaking.

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms / hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

My body needs laughter as much as it needs tears. Both are cleansers of stress.

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.