Christopher Duffy

Laughs.

You know, like you have to end with the funny thing.

And then be quiet.

Exactly.

And then give them the space to laugh.

Yeah.

Again, comedy is so context dependent and so subjective, and it depends on the relationship with the person who you're talking to and where that relationship is this particular day and tone.

And there's so many pieces.

So it is kind of inevitable that you will get it wrong.

It's also kind of inevitable that you will get it wrong even without comedy.

But just having a conversation with someone for long enough, you're going to say something that's a little awkward or strange.

But comedy certainly raises the stakes a little bit more.

This is where I actually think that I would draw a distinction between comedy and humor.

Comedy is like the performance.

And so if you're just trying to perform right, then it's like it's all about me.

Pay attention.

But if you're trying to have a good sense of humor, to me, a humor is about like laughing together and having a really like wonderful time with lots of laughs as a whole.

So it might be that you're just laughing at the other person's joke.

So how can you

With that goal of having a better sense of humor in a collective way, how can you then own up to, hey, I stepped over the line and I didn't mean to, and let's not do that again?