Reggie Watts
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Yeah.
Well, I mean, you know, it's like, it's just this kind of like realization that, uh,
you know, like what makes people laugh and what triggers laughter.
And I just kind of realized that all humor is essentially, it's working off a paradox.
So you're setting up an expectation, you're subverting the expectation.
and in the annihilation of the two things um and you know the creation of all things but like the when that hits in that moment it triggers a response from people and the response is like this instantaneous awareness of
you know, I mean, for lack of a better term, like everyone's divinity or what I like to call the absurdity of life.
And so it just kind of flashes and people react and they laugh, you know, because they're like remembering essentially.
So in that moment, I always think of it as instantaneous enlightenment.
And there's different levels of laughter.
There's kinds of
Yeah, for sure.
Well, I mean, comedy is like, you know, comedy specifically absurdity.
I mean, all comedy, but absurdity for me is kind of,
another level in the sense that it not only unveils the well i think it unveils the true nature of reality so whatever is being talked about whatever the subject matter is you're not only revealing what it is but you're also dismantling what it is and and in meaning meaning that like um
you are kind of like you're commenting on what it is, but then you're also reminding people that ultimately everything is nothing and and everything, everything is paradox.
Essentially, like reality is paradox.
Paradox is the engine of this reality.
So, you know, so you're kind of like diving into that and you're kind of like showing like not only is this cup a cup, but also this cup is made of subatomic particles that essentially are that don't exist but do exist simultaneously.
You know, like that type of shit or whatever.