The Discipline of Clarity in Comedy

Koval: I'm not qualified to talk about those things. I don't have a degree in economics. I'm entirely self-taught. But one thing that comedy does do is you find very quickly, if the audience don't understand, they don't laugh. And so it's essential that they understand. That forces the discipline, the discipline of clarity onto the comedian. Now, what I've found in all the books on economics and finance that I've read, that same discipline doesn't exist. In fact, a lot of the time the authors are very lazy in their use of language. So there's a lot of scope for obfuscation. Often it suits people who talk

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