PEL Presents PMP#17: Comedy as Philosophy w/ Daniel Lobell

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

Casey, Paskin, Philosophy, Linsenmayer, Society & Culture, Alwan

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Are stand-up comedians the Modern Day Philosophers? This is the premise of Daniel's podcast, but really, only some comedians express original claims; many just tell jokes. Are those exceptional comics philosophizing? Does telling the whole, tragic truth rule out being funny? Daniel, Mark, Erica, and Brian consider Carlin, Gadsby, Chappelle, and others.

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0:00.0	Get up and at it. That's my mother used to say.
0:03.0	Get moving. Get your skate song.
0:07.0	Get your hair done in the race run.
0:10.0	Get behind the wheel.
0:12.0	Get picking up.
0:14.0	And dropping off.
0:17.0	Get busy.
0:19.0	Get deliveries done.
0:21.0	And get home to see mom.
0:24.0	Whatever the mission, enterprise rental car helps over 100,000 every day.
0:30.0	This is pretty much pop a culture podcast talking today about the off repeated claim that stand-up comedians are our modern day philosophers.
0:37.0	This is Mark Linton-Mire exploring the nature of causality by taking a sledgehammer to a watermelon.
0:44.0	This is Eric Aspires studying one of my favorite comedian philosophers, Steve Martin, who says if you're studying geology, which is a great deal.
0:53.0	As soon as you get out of school, you forget it all. The philosophy you remember just enough to screw you up for the rest of your life.
1:00.0	And I'm Brian Hurt.
1:02.0	And I think when Socrates drank that cup of poison, it was pretty funny.
1:07.0	And our special guest, Daniel Lovell, host of the modern day philosophers podcast, which inspired this topic.
1:14.0	And also a successful stand-up comedian and author of graphic novels about himself.
1:19.0	That's right. Very egocentric.
1:23.0	For listeners, Mark was holding something up at the camera, which like prop comedy is not going to work on a podcast.
1:29.0	It's called Fair Enough.
1:31.0	That's the name of the series. It's true stories from my life turned into basically graphic novels.
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