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ACFM Trip 33: Comedy

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The Comedy of Lack and Excess

Comedy is always about things being deliberately put out of proportion. The drive to for wholeness explains all sorts of things nationalism bloody blah blah i quite like that idea of like so it's sort of like that excess and lack thing  is sort of like when you treat something which is actually quite trivial in a massively excess way or you treat something really quite excessive in a really minimal way. It also helps to explain the kind of black humor that you get in emergency services or doctors and paramedics etc, he says.

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