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#433 - Coleman Hughes - Joe Rogan & Spotify's Censorship Battle

Modern Wisdom

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Comedy Does Not Work Under Surveillance

Comedy clubs in New York have begun requiring that you put your phone in a secured bag and turn it off, or runce islent in your comedy seller in the stand before you go into the club. Because comedians can't work under surveillance. They don't know which one of their jokes are going to be funny until they tell them to an audience for the first time. It's not just that funny things are often dealing with taboo topics. It's that if there is a taboo topic, it is, by definition, rife with humor potential. Like it's a taboo is a constitutive element of humor in our species. So, in order for u listen, we don't

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