just a thought (though likely not important)

after my boss (who likes possibly the worst movies ever made --The Sweetest Thing and Streets of Fire are in her Top Five Movies of All Time selections, and she said Aeon Flux was "not that bad") went on and on about how she only likes "intelligent" humor and not "stupid" movies like Super Troopers, Wayne's World, Austin Powers, or Anchorman , and then pir8fancier apparently got a review dissing her for having comedy and drama together at the same time in a story *gasp*, I just wanna say that the people considered in western culture (and possibly elsewhere, though that isn't really my area) to be the Masters at what they do-- Shakespeare, Chaplin, P.T. Anderson, Spielberg, Chaucer, Mel Brooks, Monty Python, Moliere--all mix humor and angst. And they mix all types of humor. Stupid, infantile, poop and boob jokes, and then literary references and existential questions. Dramatists and humorists, they all throw in drama, or show a dramatic situation and then make it funny. Painfully, horribly funny. That's life. That's art, whatever.

It always bothers me when people get uptight about shit like that. Or when comedy is seen as less artistic, when most performers and writers will tell you it's hard. I sure as hell can't do it. (well not on purpose)

So combining the pathos and the funny? Awesome. Keep at it.