A slender curved glass sculpture glows along a central crack against a dark background.

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Janeane Garofalo

I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.

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The speaker confesses a preference for the gloomy view, then escalates the joke: the glass is half empty, then cracked, then cutting a lip, then chipping a tooth. Pessimism becomes slapstick as each addition makes the outlook worse and the humour blacker.

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