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I take for granted that during a show he says bad things only for the sake of entertainment. I never thought that most of the things he says about himself are t

I take for granted that during a show he says bad things only for the sake of entertainment. I never thought that most of the things he says about himself are true, as I guess a lot of people do. Making people laugh is hard. One of the way is to point at things that are true. This is also one of the purpose of satire, make people think through a liberating laughter. But people might get offended, so a good way to avoid that is to point at yourself instead.

AgentConundrum 15y ago
> I take for granted that during a show he says bad things only for the sake of entertainment. Indeed. In the Beacon Theater show, he tells a story about an asshole kid in his childs class, and about shaking the kid up a bit when he was volunteering at the school one recess. During his AMA on reddit, someone asked him if there had been any fallout from the school/parent on that, and he simply replied that the kid in the story was entirely fictitious. He's also apparently said before that when he tells the story of a stupid person he meets (like the guy on the airplane who gets pissed off that the internet, something which the guy had only discovered minutes earlier, was broken/slow - an example of fast entitlement), he's actually talking about himself.