• Asafum@lemmy.world
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      13 days ago

      While I understand the importance of having productive conversations I was just making a dumb joke hoping to make someone laugh at a shitty situation. I wasn’t really looking to have a conversation about whether we should keep kicking the can down the road.

    • H4RL3Y@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      13 days ago

      Good comedy is used to make humour out of real-world problems. That’s what a comedian should be doing.

      Illustrating the problem in such a way causes laughter and joy, but it also plants a seed of thoughts into a person’s mind.

      The phrase, “it’s funny because it’s true”, yeah, say an auditorium of 1,000+ thought that, a good portion of those people are now going to be thinking about that point for a very long time.