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How to Make a Joke in an Age of Shame

I don't know if any politician they got hit with a joke and was like you know what let me go ahead and reconsider my whole platform. I mean fundamentally do you have a sense of like how do you even make a joke in the age when there is no shame? Well I think you still make the joke. There's still a punch line now. The shame part is about whether or not the joke can influence change. My father was a radio journalist but he deliberately embedded himself in pretty much any black conflicts ever gone on. He was in Rhodesia Zimbabwe now. And then I got to college. Stuart Scott was my north star for journalism. Got down to college. Got in trouble

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