Louis Theroux
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After the incident?
I'm putting that behind me.
Okay.
So you went into it, you basically attacked it.
What was the first joke you wrote?
Is he a sociologist?
You know, I'm still thinking about what we were talking about earlier and that idea of comedy.
And comedy is a sort of special realm.
Comedy takes place with its own logic in some ways.
At the same time, comedy is part of life.
Someone once said to me, there's no such thing as a joke.
which is an intriguing, challenging, you could say- They sound fun.
Paradoxical observation.
But I think what it meant was you can't just remove jokes from the realm of the rest of reality.
And some things take place on the edge of being jokes.
But certainly-
especially once you're off stage, you might just be communicating in ways that slip in and out of a kind of comic register, right?
These aren't tightly defined areas of discourse.
Does that make sense?
And I'm struck sometimes, well, when you do your crowd work, you're walking this line between