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Omid Djalili: Can jokes be funny without being mean?

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Do You Have Red Lines in Comedy?

I think there is a higher level of comedy where you use the comedy to make point. So we can all snigger like children and oesnd, as it doesn't turn me on as a comic. I've always found it very hard to get humour out of terrible human suffering. But for me, that's, that’s, for me, the red light. You're too nigts a o yiut's only, you're too nice. And i just thought, that's trying to make light of someone burning alive. For me, personally, that's a little red line for me. I don't even go there. That's good question. What would

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