Episode 1443 - Ramy Youssef
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
The Comedy of the Doofus
I think the comedy is like, most comedies that I really love, the character will do anything but fix themselves. You're never going to listen to your friends. You're not going to take any practical advice. But when you do, you know, get filled up with some sort of shame, you turn to the idea of religion which becomes ridiculous fairly quickly. And so a lot of people put all their bucket, like everything into that bucket of, okay, God help me, but then they don't want to fix anything that they're doing. That's what makes it a comedy for me, right? Yeah.
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