The Sleepover Club: Do We Have The Ability To Find Anything Funny Anymore?
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Forget middle aged, white cis male comedians telling us they've been cancelled. While they all hopefully disappear into irrelevance, how we approach humour as a generation is coincidentally changing. From our obsession with policing each other in comments sections, and unexplainable TikTok's making us laugh until we cry, to stand up comedians getting all their material from twitter and influencers treating the internet like their own personal group chat. Something weird is going on with our sense of humour, and this week Ione and Halima are getting to the bottom of it.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Halima. |
| 0:01.3 | What? |
| 0:39.5 | Hi, Halima. Hi, Ioni. And hello to the listeners. Welcome to the Polyester podcast. I'm Ayoni and the founding editor-in-chief of Polyester. And I'm Halima, the community editor, Polyester Zene and the Coast of the Polyester podcast. This is The Sleepover Club, a feminist pop culture podcast. We pull apart their hashtag discourse in the hope of making some sense of it all. Before we get started, please like, rate and review and subscribe to the podcast because it helped us out so, so much. Thank you. Yes, please. And we will read out your reviews if you leave one. Thank you so much. Okay, Halima. Yes. What are we talking about today? I guess we're talking about how, |
| 0:46.2 | like, what the hell is going on with people's humor nowadays. Nowadays. Nowadays. Nowadays. But yeah, like, what the hell is going on with our sense of humor, Genzi's |
| 0:51.1 | sense of humor, like humor in general. It's just the demise of comedy. |
| 0:56.0 | I don't know. This is what we're talking about. |
| 0:57.8 | And how our like relationship to social media, I suppose, affects how we consume funny content. |
| 1:05.9 | I feel like people listen to us and think that this is really like, oh, they're going to talk about the Wilson with the Chris Rock thing no no we're done with that now I think the reason I start |
| 1:17.2 | well I don't know how how do we start thinking about this Alima I guess it's like I just our |
| 1:22.4 | comment section on Instagram and the way that everybody takes like any little bit |
| 1:29.6 | of information on the internet |
| 1:31.7 | really personally |
| 1:32.7 | like you have a whole podcast |
| 1:34.3 | to listen to you |
| 1:34.8 | and you're mad about one little clip |
| 1:36.5 | that like |
| 1:37.1 | isn't even the full point |
| 1:38.7 | like or even like |
| 1:39.8 | a particular podcast last week |
| 1:41.4 | was I think really funny |
| 1:42.8 | and I feel like people it, I think, really funny. And I feel like people... |
| 1:44.4 | It was actually really funny. And people were really, really quite mad about the podcast |
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