Louis Theroux

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

making funny observations of people, sometimes humorously insulting them, but you deliver it in a way that is funny most of the time, right?

And you do crowd work and there's compilations of your crowd work or dealing with heckles.

And they're not heckles.

In fact, you've invited the interaction.

And because it's quite clear that you're in a real setting where you might have some prepped stuff, but...

you're deploying it in a way that's organic and spontaneous, or you're just coming up with stuff on the spot with whoever you're talking to.

Yes.

Eight out of ten cats do Countdown.

I've never really watched it on TV and then I watched a compilation.