The Joke’s on Us: The Paradox of Anger and Laughter

The Deeper Thinking Podcast

For anyone drawn to the strange, necessary intersection of fury, absurdity, and the laughter that binds them.

We laugh to relieve tension, to mock power, to endure the absurdity of existence. But what if humor doesn’t release anger at all—what if it preserves it? In this episode, we explore comedy’s deepest paradox: whether laughter is a release or a form of repression. From the Aristotelian golden mean to Nietzsche’s will to power, from Freud’s repression theory to modern stand-up, we ask: does humor liberate us, or render the unbearable merely tolerable?

If comedy is a mirror, is it revealing truth—or helping us laugh it away?

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