You Can't Joke About That : : why Everything is Funny, Nothing is Sacred, and We're all in This Together

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Includes index.
Discovering the Power of Comedy -- Intention Absolutely Matters -- Don't Erase Anything -- No One Wants to Hear You Whine (Unless It's Funny) -- Shitbag -- Live, Laugh, Die -- Is There Sexism in Comedy? -- Words Are Not Violence -- Safe Spaces Aren't Real (And That's Great!) -- On Apologies and Apologizing -- Sorry, But This One Is About Politics -- Free Speech as a Cultural Value -- Twitter and the Outrage Machine -- Comedy is My Religion -- PSA : You Also Have The Right Not To Speak.
In a 2019 study, 40% of people reported censoring themselves out of fear that voicing their views would alienate them from the people they care about most. Timpf shows why much of the way we talk about sensitive subjects is wrong. We push ourselves into unnecessary conflicts when we should feel like we're all in this together. When someone says "you can't joke about that," what they really mean is "this is a subject that makes people sad or angry." Timpf argues that those subjects are actually the most important to joke about: we can find healing through humor regarding things you probably don't want to bring up in polite conversations. -- adapted from jacket

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A very un-funny study of humor submitted by GJBarnett2 on August 13, 2023, 12:06pm Viewed "live," Timpf is smart, articulate and witty. Unlike this book. I wanted to give up after the first third but persisted in the hope of improvement. . A very serious study of the role of humor in coping with very un-funny life events. Not at all what I had expected. Gets better as it goes on. Much better. Changed my evaluation from one to four stars.