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🗓️ 10 September 2019
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0:00.0 | you know, I will say again, one of the reasons that I think I mentioned earlier that I'm very |
0:03.3 | grateful we didn't have a Trump-era toast is I think we've seen a lot of various forms of humor, |
0:09.9 | especially kind of like white-dominated forms of humor, and not to say that the toast was |
0:14.3 | exclusively white, but certainly, you know, that's both Nicole and I, and that's a pretty big chunk |
0:19.4 | of the toast. You know. Not that I think we ever |
0:21.2 | would have gone down the road of like the sort of like at replying Trump constantly calling him |
0:26.3 | Cheeto man, but like, you know, it's so dispiriting and it's so unfunny and it's so spirit crushing |
0:33.4 | to see a lot of different forms that humor has attempted to take in the last couple of years. |
0:39.3 | Mostly I think I'm just glad to have gotten the opportunity to not think of myself primarily as somebody whose job it is to make jokes rather than, you know, I have a sort of set of interests and and things I think are worth thinking through, talking through, sometimes |
0:55.9 | joking through, and often, I think I don't know in time in conversation with somebody else |
1:00.3 | if I feel like, I've made a joke here, but I'm not sure that the joke is the right way to lead, |
1:04.4 | or I actually think there's more opportunity for humor here than I had thought there was |
1:08.8 | previously. And certainly, I think I'm broadly sympathetic |
1:12.6 | with the idea of not using humor as a bludgeoning tool to sort of reinforce power structures |
1:19.2 | that are already in place. But I also don't know that I would say I think you can create a set |
1:24.5 | of rules for good, correct, morally upright humor and bad, transgressive, |
1:30.2 | wrong humor. |
1:31.2 | And we always know with Twitch and there's never a combination of the two. |
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