The Purpose of Comedy

"I believe there's a purpose to everything so surely I can't say there's no problem comedy just laugh," he says. "Comedy in his talks is like the it's like the anesthesia before the incision mmm mmm because he's gonna say some difficult truth to you that you're gonna have to hear and I think that's one very valuable use of comedy" Comedians always go with comedies about punching up and challenging the powerful etc etc everyone wants to give you a lecture on what comedy is about, writes Jimmy Fallon.