Monday, January 22, 2024

What's so funny?

If you can’t joke about the most horrendous things in the world, what’s the point of jokes?
What’s the point in having humor? Humor is to get us over terrible things. That’s all it’s for.
That’s why you should laugh at funerals. Of course it’s the wrong thing to say. That’s why it’s funny.

                Ricky Gervais, GQ magazine interview 

 

 

 

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