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ACFM Trip 33: Comedy

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The Relationship Between Generalised Comedy and Generalised Cynicism in Politics

Comedians are the people who are more most trained on step and back and forth over that boundary do you know i mean in comedy people can venture a sincere statement. Russell Brand thing was anti political he's very much on the left at that point but then there's all sorts of other figures such as zalensky, john nah or beppe grillo. You basically put forward a sincere statement but after you've moved through irony so that you show that you're not naive  you're like the knowing audience but the knowing audience who's not hiding behind irony something like that.

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