Episode 521 - Peter McGraw and Joel Warner

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2014

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Authors of The Humor Code, psychologist Peter McGraw and journalist Joel Warner, traveled around the world to find out what makes things are funny. They stop by the garage to share their findings and conclusions with Marc, including a scientific theory of humor. Plus, Eddie Pepitone drops in to get Marc up to speed on his life and his latest projects.

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0:00.0	Fuck the game!
0:01.0	Alright, let's do this.
0:10.5	How are you, what the fuckers, what the fuck buddies, what the fuckin' ears, what the fuck
0:13.6	nicks, what the fucksters, what the fuck abilities, what the fuck-o-berry thins, okay.
0:21.0	How are you?
0:22.0	This is Mark Marin, this is my show WTF.
0:25.5	Why am I talking like this?
0:27.1	How is everyone?
0:28.1	Nice to talk to you.
0:29.1	Today on the show Peter McGrown, Joel Warner, are here, they wrote a book called The Humor
0:36.0	Code.
0:37.0	You can get that at humorcode.com or wherever books are sold.
0:40.8	This was not a contentious interview for me, but it was a little touchy because I always
0:45.4	wondered what the motives are for trying to disassemble and categorize and make graphs
0:51.1	of things like comedy.
0:55.3	Why?
0:56.3	Why do it?
0:57.3	Why explain it?
0:58.3	I quite get past Freud's wit and its relation to the unconscious.
1:02.1	I think there was some good stuff there, it has something to do with I think fear and discomfort
1:05.9	and feeling better.
1:09.1	Disarming the pain, I'm not even paraphrasing, I'm making it up.
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