challenges posed to many workers and government officials by this digitalization process by the moving of many aspects of life from offline to online and he said that while these pose difficulties and challenges for many people it also posed opportunities for people to prove themselves and show their versatile qualities so it does seem that the spots all the difficulties about 2020 has posed the need to adapt to the economy very quickly it's also speeding up this process of digitalisation and the country out also speeding up the evolution of all the the tech sector and indeed the legislation as well because too much of the rate at which that is progressing is was. that whole consumer portion you watch not international get to have a company but have more stories and headlines and about our.

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humor interior and best selling author. and guitar in him are engineer and bestselling writer great to have you with us today what a time to talk about humor. absolutely it's one of those times where people are like is. is it ok to talk about humor and in fact it's one of those things where it's definitely right so let's let's to construct this whole thing your self described humor engineer and you write books on how to master humor make jokes funny and sing care how you are in this wonderful hero of 2020 do you see that the demand for humor is actually rising against a backdrop of the complete mass of everything or not really. know it it absolutely is and i think part of the reason is you know with. you know more social a distance to go on much more things on earth they're realizing how much humor that

they used to have in their life that they are now missing because you no longer you know always conversation with your coworkers you don't have to meet up with friends and even with strangers if you are wearing a mask you don't see this smiles in the last on their faces and so now more than ever isn't it really into how we use humor not just for our own kind of amusement but also to do things like manage to relationships and you know all the additional good it's you are you've sat in a. top that humor has to be positive and inclusive but here's the thing isn't humor supposed to be just funny 1st and foremost sin is that that like the most important thing in humor and that everything else writes a day so that's true for comedy comedy is the goal is to make people laugh but we think it is a little bit more broad than comedy it includes things that are funny but it can also be something that is just a little bit different or something that is

a little bit silly where the goal is on usenet and our focus at least you know is a humorous nearly my organization is in humor that you're supposed to be funny or interested in humor that is transformation what you are that is encouraging humor that it's. all me in some ways and ultimately humor that works out it's not just about me people laugh but it's about getting some type of better interest salt which more inclusive forms of humor certainly help with no workplace as opposed to more forms of humor so we're ok but if we focus a little on comedy and i'm saying lake stand and you know this late night shows and . even the you know the comedies that we see coming out if if i have a really good joke let's say which is really nasty at the same time should i never let it sit in light of the day just because in my own we really be positive or inclusive at all. well you can certainly with your stand up comedian then you let

it go right tell that on a comedy stage next intention it don't really make it hold the line a little bit make you laugh you can also do it with friends as a way to create a little bit it can hire a serious or you know they share your similar sense of humor like some groups like emergency 1st responders so police officers firefighters except really sometimes tend to have a little bit of a darker sense of humor as a way to manage the kind of difficulties that they're going through the stuff that they see and deal with every single day which is understandable but if your a leader of an organization or you're in a company or you want to build a city of relationships with people that are going to change a type of humor that usenet where all alternately comes down to is what's your goal with you or. your engineer so we don't think of humor just as a name for fun but how does it help us to solve challenges either at holme or in the workplace and depending on the challenge if you want to solve it might change

the type of humor that you want to use and ellen job goes home and if someone is a take to change a light finance series that's not funny and it's my impression that humor has waned having a very hard time lately whenever you want to crack a joke you should really think twice. you know should i say this should i not say these i'm going to hurt anyone is anyone going to be offended by this why has everybody become so sensitive. or her or what is to blame. now it's a detonating question and i think you know this year is always involving the humor that was popular and you know fades in stacey's what we own by bill if you murder is more slapstick it was more physical days that all the more kind of jokes like clear kind of set jokes of set up and punchline that evolved into more storytelling and authenticity with storytelling and i see i think we're just seeing it continue evolution where some of the things that we used to joke about old really were

saying well maybe it's not actually ok to joke about that maybe that you know what you think of is is something is a light hearted joke is really difficult for someone who's had experience that for a long period of time and so i think it's just a cultural change will continue to change will continue all that and part of being in a debt humorist or comedian is adapting to the times and still finding the line and understanding when it's appropriate 'd to cross a line when it's not and the workplace it's really not appropriate across the line except for a very some specific scenarios but in a comedy club that's a little bit you know different so getting those back to where you're using next year and what you want to achieve with well i've been talking a lot to comedians a lot especially stand up comedians because i'm writing a book about humor 2020. and i mean humor really if we're honest with each other especially in standup comedy with late night shows it gets really funny when

making fun of something serious right whether it's politics or sometimes in some kind of gas or tragedy how does comedy survive if it's become too dangerous to be dangers in your jokes i mean a situation where you can't laugh at religion gender skin color sexual orientation what is there left to laugh at. well i think they completed raising especially in the context of comedy that nothing is off limits i don't even say you can't joke about it because they use it as a gift to be the decider but i think out a joke about it is is changing because you know the fundamental kind of concept you're structure with and specifically instead of a set up and punchline so a set of raising expectations analysts nurse brain and any punch line raise that expectation in some way part of the reason for evolution in comedy is that for many years honestly your set up was maybe aggressive towards this particular group and

then the punch line changes but you can see you are going this very well i would say even dave chappelle continues to kind of gross that line because of how he does a set of them punch line through that are you know the joke is when you really kind of carson and look at it break it down you're realizing that are he has changed where is he talking about asserts like specific group a lot of times it's our it isn't actually next root it's society's perspective around it and so becomes how you joke about that particular subject so i completely agree with you that i don't think any subject should be off limits and i still like this whole thing with humor has taken unprecedented scale because if you look at what happened with shirley of bill and then just recently a schoolteacher was beheaded in france for referring to shall have the cartoons which you can't get over the top on purpose i mean no doubt about that i mean i grew up in paris and you know there irreverence in humor would annoy me

a lot because i'm not used to that but at this point like it's unclear whether it's a cartoonist on our satirists and humor in general that has sort of protected in a full station like this or do we have to set certain boundaries for humor so that it doesn't provoke outrage that we've seen and seen my reaction have. swop because last year it was like yeah it was like over the top and then this year when i'm saying continuation of they said to be having even though i don't like that here were i feel like the man who had michael i feel like we should stand up for him or do you know what i mean some having let us know cognitive dissonance inside of me when i write i agree with that radio that that best lines between it to be because you know things like. this idea of freedom of speech or freedom of expression doesn't mean freedom from consequences but at the same time someone making a joke you know in your results should not be them losing their legs and so i think

there's probably islands of both and i would say it's probably more on the scale of people's reaction because you know it has a as a communicator you have to decide if someone is offended by something that's data for you kind of take in to mine you may not have made to stand by what you said but understanding why might this have been offensive and is that what i want to do is ok with me so i think the answer is a little bit on both sides and people being willing to take responsibility and recognize that whatever your individual to use are might not be the same as someone else's and where is that kind of common ground that we can meet a great difference out to you murk can help us get there and so that's the other understanding is that you know there's a difference again between a set and punchline of a specific thing and others you hear that we might use in depending on the situation which points the most appropriate obvious get to what we want to get too long or like a more general question but outweighs wonder about it lately what is too much for

humor exactly i mean here decides to boundaries of what one can joke about and how . well it's as if it's a very difficult question to do the interesting thing about comedy is that it is both very simple and very hard and the question of iraq is something funny the answer is make someone laugh and so it's funny to one person to me very different than what's funny to another person and so each individual person is kind of deciding that and then what you're noticing in this is a particular challenge and i think hey we can all maybe take us on is cancel art culture where it's like some people are then starting to get upset about jokes or things that they never even actually heard or ever experience are even really offended by and suddenly they're be homes it's kind of mob mentality where it's like oh everyone is going to jumping on board but there's one person so less like completely like ruin everything that they have into like the i think that's too extreme and it's certainly how people respond to it so you had this in the u.s.

where someone was written you know and a writer was fired for it s n l he came out some of his old jokes were actually very culturally appropriate and his reaction wasn't about apology it wasn't about like hey you know i didn't mean to offend as morally but i'm a comedian this is what i'm supposed to do and the problem is you know sometimes people use a joke as an excuse to say offensive things and it's not really actually a joke and so you know that satisfying lynette balloting it's a case by case basis but it is what you as an individual do and i think we all use that hello or should we cry you know a little bit earlier but it's those individual decisions that people are may. going to take a short break right now when we're balco continue talking to. them or engineer and best selling author talking about how humor is transformed this day stay with us.

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well we're back with andrew tara vinge humor engineer bestselling writer we're talking about what's happening to humor in 2020 and it's really fun it's a nominee when i look at the united states because i see all these late night show hosts which i adore and they're like vibrant smart. intelligent really funny hilarious guys and for the past year and a half or so i just see how they're stuck because they really can joke about anything and they think people in america are even more sensitive than anywhere else in the world on the topics that are like you know feminism matters and all of that that's going on like the whole new asked 6 right that is our reality is becoming our reality and so what they were left with is trump if you joke about anything else you get you know you're fired or taken off air and but you can joke about trump because that's ok and that helps the country well it's for trump because he has become so popular because of that degree. why certainly

a very common use perspective as well as just the sheer amount of. wrong has. you know not. just for us and what people talk about it sunday night constantly like a nice ride for me in the u.s. i didn't think about the president time carrying all that off i go and certainly. you know over the last 40 years there probably went freelance every single day has come up in some shape or form whether that's a news story or eos a comedienne saying a certain day or that you know perspective and so it is interesting that it is creating a lot more awareness and you know just that person being advised i think for me why me and are talking about it is because when everyone else so it's kind of an insecurity a challenge i think you're seeing an interesting creative evolution of comedy both through because of subject matter because of things like politics and your

technology might be a part of sarah who wears rise misbehave some day and do things a little bit differently right he has gained kind of that lindsey and they were tight and if that was interesting of winning games become more a strain on what you used to write when this is breaking norms not necessarily in a good way it becomes hard to create satire he says the nationals asked him right isn't as extreme as what the reality is and so sarah humor and add to that by just saying i'm going to change any word i'm going to pretend like this person is saying something else and is going to say it word for word it has a different kind of performance to it and so you are seeing kind of unique case in that that applies right as rating transcend different expectation and rating next and i think that's the evolution that were saying but i completely agree that there is tremendous as you can say ok let's talk about something else we is comediennes or commentators or entertainers exaggerate or in health to shape what is what are

they saying on and i say i need those people i'm allowing them to kind of giving them that platform going to be very it alls. i want an elaborate a bit about what i've just sat i was talking recently to frederick back better than the novelist and his last novel is actually about the humor and he told me that the importance of comedy these days can we explain by the side of the politicians cannot really handle the situation well enough. clowns themselves and it's to comedians who are becoming the voice of public opinion who are influencing this opinion just as well do you agree. really i mean there is there is certainly even for the past 1020 years or so people kind of considered comedians as philosophers are they are the people who are standing and inordinate amount of hanum faking about a subject and i mean what's a way to communicate is that people actually listen and i think that's true because

it easy this and other places around the world it sure can be a great way to what it hopes speak roots of power where you can take a little bit of the edge off of something that's actually true that you want to say by adding a little bit of the humor component and a lot of truth is said in jest where it's like you say a little bit of joke but people are like oh ashley. why is that why is that what i hate you're also seeing it so you're seeing that in by a couple of individuals but you're also seeing kind of almost this. is all it's use of humor that i don't think that we've always seen through things like mean culture mediated now is arising and it's been used by you know people on the left and right he said we're going back all it takes bloomberg campaign in the united states isn't necessarily we're right it was like we're going to hire a bunch of white young 20 somethings to create a bunch of means to try to create and get this message out there and so you are seeing this change in terms of how some of that humor is executed but in general

comedians yes i think are there great philosophers you're seeing it like you said in the news programs a lot of people aren't getting their news necessarily at least younger people aren't getting any yet and they're getting it from ever knowing that early show they're getting it from these comedians who are going more comedic shows and brainy on in part you know continuing my conversation with bag but they're here also compare the current situation and the role comedians playing are alive today with the orchestra of titanic which continues to play while the ship is sinking. ship going down as well and since the comedians cannot really stop it from going on there is laughing about it they only way to accept the inevitable. her or i don't add big laughter laughing about something is a great way to make it so that it doesn't have control over you and it is actually one of the you know disadvantages to strictly how many human humor and some sense

is that you're relieved tension and so that can be a great thing when you're very stressed but it can also lead to a lack of. wind not kind of kept in check and if you think about it even back to the traditional days of being monarchy that kind of thing they intentionally installed in jest your court jester because that was someone who could. make everyone laugh or leave some of that tension so that they didn't revolt you see the same thing initially the initial reason for karbala and some countries was to say ok a remedy. in crackdown on people for war 11 months of the year or if you this one month of celebration so you get out all of that haitian innings i mean everything that in that moment so that you don't rise to power and so i think that's the disadvantage and so you have to understand that again goes back to. the purpose of our humor not just allowing it to be me and going down with the ship and like

a real laugh all this is all to do i believe that he had that next step and that's why we focus on humor is that it doesn't stop at hey you made you laugh and now that you're laughing you're listening and what do we do with your attention it is often to say hey we made you laugh can buy or can we implant kind of the idea of a cd maybe we can all be a little bit better maybe we could all be a little bit more compassionate about each other or you see this also with. last week's night in john oliver is that every episode ends with some type of small. you know go if you are l. don't eat in this saying or whatever so you're starting to see is evolution where people are saying ok now that what you it's not i when we try to transport that to some type of change. you know since it is much easier to lothar about your president or environment and kind of shrug it off behind a good joke than actually to get up and do something about it can humor and joking about everything actually to complacency satele isn't exactly and so that's that's

a component of complacency is a great way to put it right if we really too much of that tension and that's where the purpose of that humor right to go that additional next step if you want to change and you've seen that it is. so there's a believe. the story comes from serbia but it's a situation where the crew cut off or and maybe it is usually use humor not as a way to kind of just say let's release 10 as a game or who are getting people to comment you kind of this navy i'll standing up to it and they use humor to kind of hold on of the danger but they made it sometimes that more people would be wanting to fall because they had this where it's like ok yes if you're going to you know protest against something or to just kind of out there standing but instead if you had a humor component to it and you say we know this is is not to say that the

situation isn't serious well that with a little bit of fun we can make it is actually more meaningful more impactful because we'll get more people involved because. entertainment. you know i think we're going through the worst crisis might experience during our lifetime like saying how this pandemic is transforming actually everything from the way we communicate war or our values do you know i get since forming bumiller as well i mean will it be different from what it was before 2020 and if yes how. i don't get it will i mean it humor is just like so many things is always a ball game and i think culturally it's a logging and i think the the overlying rights and optimist i think by my grandmother is like the most optimistic person that i've ever met and i think that kind of like holds true for me some always kind of thinking about what is a silver lining in this case part of it is the elevation of the status of humor i

think like i said earlier because we're not having the same forms of release that we used to have if you think about you know we've got more stress than ever people are working harder than they probably used to or they're unemployed but they're going in a virtual space a lot of times if they're working from home they don't have that work life kind of separation it feels more like work life survival and you know you're constantly working barely ever turning it off except to see have this increase in stress not meeting greeting with a pen and everything else flying on but normal loads are leaving that stress are gone and you know you can't go to sporting events at least like you used to even going out to get a drink with friends is now either a lot more stressful or actually impossible to do everything that you used to do is harder even if you want to go making out there's thousands of people out on the hiking trails it's the one thing that you kind of view as so people are recognizing oh the day that i'm missing i don't think that they're quite there yet but i think

the long term untapped people speak oh do me or if you are my life i need more levity and how do i use it and it will continue to see this kind of democratization of individuals using humor will be less of a focus of your and they're still going to be entertainers and comediennes but i think more people say. you know or the like when they used to say like oh i can never do that or i'm not funny my hope my goal is that more and more people recognize and really this is a skill it is gillet i can and should learn. and here is how i'm going to bring in my own personal style i'm not going to necessarily be a stand up comedian but maybe i'm going to share more stories maybe i'm going to do some maybe i did use some dames just a day for myself so that i am able to deal with the challenges that we have every single day andrew thank you so much for this wonderful insight about. humor 20 twentieth's transforming. it's been really interesting talking to you know michel

the good luck when they were thing and i said well it was fantastic talking and you have love for you clearly done your research and have a lot of great insight of where it is a life i will say that you know for me i get our focus is out and we as individuals . ownership kind of our own situation and use humor to help improve it but i also love this conversation on the macro view of where it's going so i appreciate it the chance to have the conversation thank you so much andrea stay safe. maybe you kate .

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