1. There's been a fascinating on-going conversation about the role of comedy in the Trump era.
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Also a typical abuser/manipulator's tool: if you are offended, he was just joking and you are too touchy.
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5. On the liberal side: jokes won't win elections but will help keep people find balance during Trump years.
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6. Like a lot of psychological mechanism, comedy has different valences: there's a comedy of resignation & a comedy of resistance.
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It helped Hitler also, somewhat in the same way.
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Re: #4. Andrew Dice Clay was briefly a HUGE thing in the 90s. He's more in the Trump vein -- the humor of the bully.
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When I was a kid jokes were supposed to be funny....
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You should read/cite Max Frisch's Firestarters as an allegory on the theme of "Surely he must be joking!"
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