My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

The line frames comedy as a coping strategy: pain is not denied, but actively transformed. “Forget” suggests temporary relief or distance; “mock” and “reduce” describe the comic process of shrinking what feels overwhelming by turning it into something manageable—an object of play rather than fear. Ending on “And laugh” makes laughter the final act of agency, a chosen response that reclaims control from suffering. Read this way, the quote aligns with a long tradition of humor as resilience, implying that the comedian’s craft is less about escapism than about alchemy—converting private hurt into a public, shared release.