Jimmy Carr
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It could be famine.
It could be something terrible.
And by making a joke about it, you're making it benign.
You're taking its power away.
Well, I don't buy into the punching up, punching down dynamic.
I think that's Marxist, neo-Marxist, sort of Frankfurt School thinking.
I don't buy into sort of Foucault, the idea that the world is on power dynamics and you're punching up or punching down.
I don't know.
I mean, Christ, a long time ago.
Yeah.
I mean, I don't buy into that whole thing.
I think that thing of going... There is power, but society is full of power relationships.
Yes, but it's not the only thing going on.
No.
It doesn't explain everything.
But that idea of going, the power dynamics of that is not something that I... You have to buy into that.
You have to go, you're punching up, you're punching down.
You're in the service industry.
You're trying to make 2,000 people laugh for two hours straight is what you're trying to do.
And what's your sense of humor?