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Live From the Comedy Cellar: Comedy, Free Speech, and Why the Last 10 Years of American Life Have Been So Uniquely Stupid with Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff, and Rikki Schlott

The Psychology Podcast

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What Happens When You Have No Jokes?

Sally Kohn: To get real laughter, to get real like, you have to have sex or aggression. She says humor has huge numbers of social functions and is an essential part of society. But when someone decreed that it's impact not intent means there's only one stable position she says. "I feel like we figured out a way to sort of figure out ways to demonize each other in a way that is briefly satisfying"

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