Well, yes, that's true. I hope the reader starts the next dash, forgetting that he just ran a previous one. I do think that it is impossible to write a comic novel as a single long take simply because a person can't be funny for a long time. We know this. People have tried, some of them at parties I have attended.
Comedy is a series of short takes.
With a collection of stories, you can end your relationship with a character once you feel they have run out of interest. With a novel you must continue to make something or someone interesting to the reader for a long, long time. That is the great challenge, and it is an even greater challenge if you have a character, as I do in John Tollefson, who is not all that interesting. Comedy is not about people who are alienated or estranged or filled with grief. Comedy is about ordinary people.