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Episode 12: Humor

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Youderstan, Get to Cerry. Git

i love how louis i pulls us closer and closer to that line. In 19 o five, sigmund freud wrote a book called jokes and their relation to the unconscious. And one of the points he makes is that jokes are usually violations of deeply held taboos. I almost feel like when i walk out of a great show, it forces me to be a little more authentic with my feelings. But you know, let's face it, we all do have some really dark thoughts. That's human. But we don't speak it. We don't say it, because it's inappropriate. So part of why a joke is funny is that it allows us to get up against

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