I don't really know how to start shows.

Come on now, don't start liking me now.

So yeah, I'm funny compared to you.

Well, you'll see later.

I favor me.

I know a lot of fucking idiots.

You think a lot of shit is mean-spirited,

just because it goes against what they believe.

But the relief of comedy is it take things that aren't funny

and it allows us to laugh about them for an hour

We got a purple suit to buy in a gigantic clothin.

Why are you laughing?

The evening, everybody.

Welcome to Why Are You Laughing, a history of comedy podcast.

And today, I am pleased to introduce to you the legendary Lucille Ball, the first lady of comedy,

certainly one of the most legendary figures in television history for many reasons.

But my main takeaway from doing research on her was her honesty.

That's the thing I kind of appreciated most because I watched a lot of these interviews

with her when she was on with Dick Cavett and Carson and Barbara Walters and all these people.

And like now in the generation that we kind of grew up in and everything,

for women, I think there's a pressure to tell your story, you know,

to talk about the hardships in your life and everything.

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