幽默家也许是世界上最特殊的一类人:他用自己的整个生命为人类奉献笑的艺术,而人们为了报答他,却常常置他的艺术乃至他本人于死地。幽默家的命运往往并不幽默,或者说是太幽默了。古罗马喜剧艺术家尼维阿斯由于在作品中嘲笑了罗马权贵,被投入牢狱,后又被赶出罗马,在放 The humorist may be the most special kind of person in the world: he dedicated the art of laughter to mankind through his whole life, and people repay him often with his art and even his own death. The fate of a humorist is often not funny, or too humorous. Ancient Romani comedy artist Nivias, being ridiculed in the work of the Roman elite, was put in jail, and later was driven out of Rome, put