How To Be Aggressively Delightful
Happy To Be Here
Greta Johnsen
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
If you’re looking for a way to combat the online trolls and bots fomenting unrest in the U.S., comedian Negin Farsad might have a solution for you. “I guess if I were to name it, it’s a philosophy called ‘being aggressively delightful,’” she tells us. Farsad, an Iranian-American Muslim, is the co-host of the podcast Fake the Nation, the author of the book How to Make White People Laugh, and sometimes you can hear her on our very own WBEZ as a panelist for NPR’s Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me! She told us how she manages to be aggressively delightful, even when confronted with intolerance.
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| 0:00.0 | This fall, W bez invites you to our upcoming live events. |
| 0:05.0 | Join us in person for smart discussions, heartfelt storytelling, and more. |
| 0:09.0 | Check out the full calendar now at W be easy.org |
| 0:12.6 | slash events. |
| 0:13.6 | Hey buddy. |
| 0:15.5 | Oh hi, how's it going? |
| 0:16.9 | You're pretty good. |
| 0:17.6 | Can I do a little show like this? |
| 0:19.2 | What if I did? |
| 0:21.2 | From W be easy Chicago, this is Nurdett. |
| 0:25.0 | I'm Tricia Bobita. |
| 0:26.0 | And I am Greta Johnson. |
| 0:28.0 | Nurdett is a show where we talk to people about their obsessions. |
| 0:31.0 | People who are scientists and poets, astronauts and adventurers, people who dare |
| 0:35.0 | to ask big questions and explore the unknown. |
| 0:38.0 | This week on the internet we're talking with comic Naguen Farsad. She's a total politics |
| 0:41.6 | nerd, even worked as a policy advisor for the city of New York for a while |
| 0:44.7 | But for her the draw of stand-up comedy has just always been a little too strong |
| 0:48.7 | So now she calls herself a social justice comedian. She's trying to figure out how to bridge the gaps |
| 0:53.9 | between vehemently divided Americans with comedy. I'm an Iranian-American Muslim |
| 0:59.2 | female like all of you and I'm also a social justice comedian something that I insist is an actual job |
| 1:05.3 | now to explain what that is let me tell you how I got here I've performed all over the country |
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