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#156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom
Lex Fridman Podcast
Comedy Is a Tool of It's Own Power
The humor is actually a tool of it can be changing the side guys changing absolutely can be but it also cannot be I don't think it's any one thing. Most of what comedy is is people showing up to strip malls telling jokes for an hour while people eat chicken fingers and they all get drunk and they laugh, that's really the majority of comedy then there's like 10 famous people that are really famous that do a version of that in in arena. The amount of cultural power they have has always been greatly exaggerated my uncle's loved George Carlin who is anti military industrial complex anti this anti that and then they would go vote for Ronald Reagan they didn't care he said.
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