There’s this pop philosophy book I really liked as a child called Plato and a Platypus walk into a bar. Its whole thesis is that jokes and philosophy follow the same methods, and rely on the same wordplay and tendency for the unexpected/unorthodox, and that if many philosophers weren’t sour, boring, white men, philosophy would be way more entertaining.
It’s also a book full of the worst dad jokes you could ever find, which is always fun.
My strong suspicion is that 19th and 20th philosophy was borne out of the age of legalism and lawyers so you get all these complex interlocking arguments so as to argue an airtight case using very specific words with specific meanings.
Whereas Socrates is just a series of dunks. Which also happens with the teachings of Jesus schooling the Pharisees, or that time the Buddha argued against the caste system by dunking on a Brahmin with a bunch of exposing-your-hypocrisy burns.
The modern comedian philosopher is just speaking the current vernacular when talking about social issues from the perspective of a bad breakup or buying gas station dick pills.
My strong suspicion is that 19th and 20th philosophy was borne out of the age of legalism and lawyers so you get all these complex interlocking arguments so as to argue an airtight case using very specific words with specific meanings.
This sounds like analytic philosophy, rather than continental philosophy. Besides, there’s always been freaks who want to logic their way around everything, with varying degrees of success. Spinoza, one of my favorite philosophers, tried to do philosophy following the format/method of geometric proofs in the 16th century.
Making Joe Rogan drink hemlock is the sincerest form of flattery
“Occupation?”
“I’m a stand-up philosopher!”
“Oh, you’re a bullshit artist.”
Bit idea: taking the comedy=philosophy thing seriously, and start going to mics and lecturing about Hegel until someone murders me
