John Cleese Meets Iain McGilchrist - On Consciousness and Creativity
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The Social Sanction Against Inappropriate Behaviour
I was trying to impress my first wife. And what was it, a social sanction against what is it, mechanistic behaviour? I think that's right. In other words, we did life of Brown. We realised from the start you can't be funny about Jesus Christ because somebody who's appropriate the whole time is not funny. It's when people are inappropriate, their behaviour is inappropriate and so that's – and then the social sanction is interesting because laughter is a collective thing. For example, if I was talking to Republicans, they wouldn't laugh at the same jokes as if I were talking to Democrats. You, to some extent, change your attack depending on who you're talking to
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