Is It a Dark Comedy?

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In some ways, it's kind of prophetic. You know, customer service now has gotten to that point where there's never a person who's actually can take accountability for it. So I don't want to give it away, but the ending in some way ruins it as a comedy for me. It's a dark comedy. Yes, are intentional laughs. But you know, talk about a sort of analog, it's on the TPS reports in office space is just to me a different version of the whatever forms that the bureaucrats have to fill out.

Philosophers can be funny and funny movies can be philosophical. David and Tamler welcome frequent VBW guest and arch-enemy of empathy Paul Bloom to discuss their five favorite comic films with philosophical/psychological themes. Groundhog Day was off-limits for our top five (we would've all chosen it) so we start by explaining why it's the quintessential movie for this topic.

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