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....."It has everything to do with it," Perry Mason said. A jury is an audience. It's a small audience, but it's an audience just the same. Now, the playwrights who are successful with plays have to know human nature. They recognize the fickleness of the mass mind. They know that it’s incapable of loyalty; that it’s incapable of holding any emotion for any great period of time. If there hadn’t been a chance to laugh after that dramatic scene in the play you saw, the play would have been a flop."
..........— Erle Stanley Gardner (1889 – March 11, 1970), American author and lawyer. From The Case of the Howling Dog (1934).
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