John Cleese Meets Iain McGilchrist - On Consciousness and Creativity
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The Right Brain Is in Charge of Humour
Orlando: I have been looking at humour in advertising over the last 20 years and it's disappearing. As people become very fearful, Henri Bergson talked about humour as being able to poke fun at rigidity. And that perhaps there's a way, you know, when we get in a very rigid, fixed societies, humour disappears because of that,. You know, because overwhelmed. John: One of the targets of humour has always been rigidity - pompously rigid religious or political people. But some of the pompous rigidity of the acceptable social media now are a little laughable. They've made up a rule which is you mustn't laugh at them. And we mustn't
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