While Harvard does offer a few courses on the topic - acting workshops and more academically minded examinations of comedy by Shakespeare and other playwrights - most of the action occurs outside the classroom, in student-driven extracurricular groups that have made the University something of a comedic training ground.
Some observers, including alumnus John Lithgow, have credited the bright minds and ready wits Harvard turns out with making an indelible imprint on American comedy, a style the actor once described as swinging between “ironic-brainy and daffy-stupid.”
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