Debbie Millman
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first heard Apr 2026
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Why do people laugh when they're embarrassed?
I know somebody that does that.
She laughs in every pause.
It drives me insane.
You state humor as a tool for social change involves thinking a lot about drawing lines.
In what way?
Do you think that there's a form of humor that is ethically neutral or is humor always doing something?
Well, there is some slapstick that does veer into the violence.
One of my favorite parts of the book was your understanding of humor in relation to grief and heartbreak and discomfort.
And you write about humor helping people metabolize discomfort rather than avoid it.
That to me was one of the most profound learnings in your book.
And I'm wondering if you can share an example of how people can best do that.
Yeah, that's I think why people now respond to certain jokes after tragedies with the too soon because of that enough time has not passed.
Totally.
Yeah, same.
The idea that joy ultimately declares itself most intensely through our heartbreaks came up over and over again in your interviews and in your research for this book.
What did that indicate to you?
Well, I'm only thinking about things that I sort of learned through reading your book, and I'm trying to think if they're separate from what I might have thought of before.
But I think that if joy comes after grief, there is a reckoning that's occurred, a redemption that might have been learned, or something in its place that has occurred to fill that hole.
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