Making People Laugh | StarTalk

so I’m just wondering what mental
process empowered him to make people
laugh over things that might otherwise
sound like tragic topics let’s find out
how did you make people laugh because
that’s a secret recipe I don’t know what
that is how did you do that that few
people can do something doesn’t make it
a secret
Edith trying to tell her neighbor Edith
bunker Edith bunker on all the family
trying to tell her neighbor that she may
have breast cancer that she Edith may
have breast cancer now it’s a very
serious moment but we know Edith and we
know she can’t say the words not because
she has the problem but because breast
is a word you people don’t say in polite
company and Edith mine certainly not in
the 1970 certainly not well she’d be the
same heat it’s today okay well right
here but but certainly not in the
nineteen thirties and and the other
woman who we know and the and the
audience is gonna find out has had
breast cancer and has been through it
and has no problem
there’s no hilarity to be had there but
there is amusement and laughs and so and
there and those laughs are harder and
warmer because the audience is caring a
great deal about the outcome yeah I
hadn’t thought to think about it that
way if you’re invested in if you care
then it’s a different kind of laughed
and if it’s just Tyler Eddy right that’s
that’s a it’s a brilliant distinction
there and we went for those kinds of
laughs the audience were involved in a
serious problem with these people
and when they were called on to laugh
out of the other guy’s frustration and
and fear fear it it made it more today