"I totally agree with you about the role that comedy can play in covering up pain like I think that's the most powerful powerful use of comedy," he says. "It's almost as if humor was designed and conceived to to be an opiate for us but but it can't have been right it's like a lucky accident so it's a weird problem" He adds, "The more we can be ready for them and in fact enjoy them not be terrified but actually welcome them ... The con theory is sort of right but sort of vague because if that was actually true then car crashes and earthquakes would be would be really funny"