Sublime

When you’re looking for subjects, do you go with your gut?You keep notes. You look for the recurring. What’s not going away? Boy, this police-brutality thing — it seems to be lingering. What’s going to happen here? You don’t even have the joke, you just say, “Okay, what’s the new angle that makes me not sound like a preacher?” Forget being a comedi... See more

Humor helps you see the familiar from a surprising new perspective.

It reminds you that there is no grand truth.

Any belief can be up-ended.

Every belief can be mocked.

Nobody knows anything.

See?

Laughing is subversive.

Look, this is how it works. You’re going to die one day. I know that’s kind of obvious, but I just wanted to remind you in case you’d forgotten. You and everyone you know are going to be dead soon. And in the short amount of time between here and there, you have a limited amount of fucks to give. Very few, in fact. And if you go around giving a fuc

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Jerry Seinfeld walks into a room of advertising professionals. It’s 2014. He’s receiving an honorary Clio award for “pushing the boundaries of creativity and his longstanding contributions” to the field. The ad people don’t know it yet, but Seinfeld is about to give one of the most biting acceptance speeches in awards show history. He opens with a

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