dude how did i miss it...

i finally figured out why comedy is better than art... and it's pretty dumb and obvious. comedy is all about content. that's it. it's completely intellectual. you're weird looking so what (actually, amy sedaris is pretty fucking gorgeous, not that she ever takes advantage of that, which works even more to my point), you have a weird voice, fuck it, you're a repellent human being use it.  formalism doesn't exist in comedy. you don't even have to talk as long as you can communicate in some basic way,  (there's no escaping semiotics) you're golden. if you can use it well. the one rule for comedy is to be funny. that's the entire game. just a bit of cleverness that hasn't been seen before. you cant get on stage, fine, you can write produce whatever. its all one game for these cats.
all you need to do is watch the commentary for anchoman to relalize that the director is easily as funny as will, and the reason why the film works is because they are playing that game together.
but that's the thing.
like what does art have?
the closest thing that you can get to laughter is the formalist's ohhh and ahhh. and that's total crap and bound up in some weird social myth about the artist as socally inspiring genius anyway; not due to some hocus pocus aethestectic experience.