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Michael Ian Black: What's So Funny About Sadness?

Metaphysical Milkshake with Rainn & Reza

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The Sharing of Sadness

The word for sadness in german is welch smers, which means world pain. A vague a la ma literally translates as gentle, wistful sadness. And our nastalgia, ye thos ik, pensive sad. All this is to say that there are many, many different kinds of sadness and we feel it on multiple levels. But the sharing of sadness seems to work better when the vehicle of that aring is humor. Milk shakers listen.

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