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Matt & Seamus Coughlin WASTE 5 Hours | Ep. 402

Pints With Aquinas

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The Beauty of Humor

There's a question you sometimes hear in humorous circles is it too soon meaning is some tragedy that or negative event that I want to joke about. After a certain point after our emotions have cooled and there's been healing you can look at humorous aspects of situations even if they were negative or even tragedies when they occurred. Even during World War II you had a comedy being done against Adolf Hitler like for example Spike Jones's song Dear Führer's Face which includes a Bronx cheer or raspberry. So you can have humor used about negative things to play a positive role but it has to be done in terms of what's the situation I'm in and how will it affect people. The underlying principle

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