Sometimes, things are serious. Not everything needs to be turned into a joke. As Anhedönia said, we can still make jokes and laugh, but we’ve lost the ability to know when to stop – and it’s time we learned how.
Halima Jibril • Ethel Cain says we are in an irony epidemic – is she right?
Jerry Seinfeld started performing stand-up comedy in 1976. Since then and to this day, every day he sits with a yellow legal pad and writes jokes. Given that he’s been honing his craft for 47 years, he was asked, “How do you know a joke is going to work on stage?” Seinfeld said, "You don’t." “You just trust yourself?” the interviewer asked. “No you... See more
Humor temporarily shuts down the commonsense program in your moist robot brain and boots the random idea generator.
Scott Adams • How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
Anyway, the best summary of all of this, and how it seems like it will manifest itself in the real world, is from comedian Anthony Jeselnik:
All these comics now, it's almost like the point is to get in trouble. It's like, "Why are you giving me shit? I'm a comic, I'm allowed to say whatever I want." That's wrong, as far as I'm concerned. People t... See more
Benn Stancil • Getting away with it
“It goes back to the idea of failure as a core comedy principle. A pathetic attempt at something big flopping a bit is always funny.”