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Comedian Katherine Blanford on Laughing At Life

The Daily Stoic

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Christ Sippus: The Joke That Survives

Christ Sippus is supposedly one of the only people to ever die of laughter. Do you believe that's possible? I think Christ Sippus had a heart attack or was doing whatever synthetic drug was around then and had a good old laugh that that tipped it off. So apparently he was like sitting on his front porch and a donkey walks up and he starts eating out of the garden. And the person rushes up to get their donkey and he says, does your donkey want some wine to wash down those figs? He laughs so hard that he kills over and dies. It's kind of the ultimate like you had to be there because it makes no sense.

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