annihilated

I love Pat­ton Os­walt and I re­al­ly en­joyed his new spe­cial, but I found my­self un­able to laugh at most of it. Of all the Trump ma­te­r­i­al, his com­par­i­son to David Lee Roth got the most gig­gles out of me, but that prob­a­bly had more to do with David Lee Roth.

And that’s okay, that doesn’t mean he wasn’t or isn’t fun­ny. I can just lis­ten to the man talk and still en­joy it. Not all com­e­dy has to make me piss my pants. I’m also a huge fan of Marc Maron and I could sit and lis­ten to him talk for hours, too (and have). I ac­tu­al­ly found Marc’s bit about Trump to be much fun­nier when I watched his spe­cial, but maybe I was less worn down then.

It’s just re­al­ly hard for me to find any­thing fun­ny about this any­more. I don’t think any co­me­di­an should stop mak­ing jokes. I’ll keep lis­ten­ing to them, to get what­ev­er I can out of it, and I think it’s im­por­tant they keep bring­ing that to the ta­ble. But a while ago this had al­ready start­ed to feel like when you get hurt re­al­ly bad­ly and maybe it looked fun­ny when it hap­pened, but some peo­ple are still laugh­ing and the pain is just too much and it’s not fun­ny any­more.

And I know co­me­di­ans mak­ing jokes about it is a lit­tle dif­fer­ent – they’re not laugh­ing at our pain. They’re in that pain with us and that’s how they’re deal­ing with it. I’m all for that. It’s one of my com­mon mech­a­nisms in my cop­ing ar­se­nal, too. When it’s some goofy meme or vi­ral joke about some­thing like cov­fefe, that’s when I can laugh the eas­i­est be­cause that’s just ab­sur­di­ty, and we can all have a laugh at HIS ex­pense.

But when it’s any­thing to do with ‘Oh god what is he go­ing to do now?!’ it’s just not fun­ny to me any­more, be­cause it feels like it’s at our ex­pense. The co­me­di­ans aren’t do­ing that, it’s not their fault, and again – I would nev­er ask or ex­pect an artist to al­ter his or her craft or way of ex­press­ing them­selves.

I’m just talk­ing about how heavy this has got­ten for me, and why it’s just not work­ing for me any­more.
 
 

—emi­ly duchaine

Flom­mist Emi­ly Duchaine lives in the Pa­cif­ic North­west. She likes to drink mead, learn about sharks, and lis­ten to the Talk­ing Heads. She pre­tends to be a pro­fes­sion­al busi­ness­woman most days. Copy­right © 2017 Emi­ly Duchaine.

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