3. Julian Baggini on Humour in Philosophy: 'the two major schools of 20th century e...

Julian Baggini on Humour in Philosophy: 'the two major schools of 20th century european existentialism were Sartre and Camus in France, and Monty Python in the UK'

Sorry and I really mean that. I can't watch that. I like philosophy. I read and learn for fun. I watched the first 8 minutes and like yes this is interesting but it's just a posturing of view points that as far as I watched didn't give any substance. The way I see the philosophy of comedy is that it's mostly situational and as for revealing the inner psyche I'm just not having it. In my time I've known people that thrive on extremely risky jokes and people laugh but it's not because they believe them to be funny it's more of a laugh when they don't know what else to do and there is also the group mentality. I'll probably watch the rest tomorrow just to see if it goes in that direction.

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