Kat Timpf: Make America Funny Again!

The You Can't Joke About That author says that free speech and dark humor can bring a fragmented country together.

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Kat Timpf: Make America Funny Again!

Today's guest is the Gutfeld! show and Fox News contributor Kat Timpf, whose new book, You Can't Joke About That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred, and We're All In This Together, is a massive bestseller. It's also a full-throated defense of free speech and a compelling argument for humor as the best possible coping mechanism.

I talk with Kat about her life as a standup comedian, her past work at National Review and Barstool Sports, how she deals with sexism, what it's like to be an unapologetic libertarian at Fox News, and how her mother's untimely, tragic death convinced her that humor can be a powerful tool to bring a fragmented country together.

This episode was taped live in New York City at the Reason Speakeasy, a monthly, unscripted conversation with defenders of free speech and heterodox thinking. Get information about upcoming events by signing up for Reason's NYC Events newsletter.

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I wonder what it’s like to be a full throated unapologetic libertarian at Reason these days? Is Stossel more out of place here than Timpf is at Fox News?

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[Trollificus]

Good question. Guess we'll never know.

[InsaneTrollLogic]

One side can be funny; however, the left can't meme worth a damn.

[A Cynical Asshole]

the left can’t meme worth a damn.

Fact check: true.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

DO YOU THINK YOU'RE BEING FUNNY?

[Brandybuck]

Neither side is funny. You need people in the middle, people not fully invested in a political tribe, to make a joke. How can you possible joke about current events when your kneejerk instinct is to lecture and scold? Both Left and Right.

p.s. Libertarians too. Dave Smith is the most unfunny professional comedian ever.

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[picture of Stalin]
Dark Humor Is Like Food
Not Everybody Gets It

[mad.casual]

*Yawn*

Dead Baby Jokes are like first birthdays.
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Not everybody gets them.

[Stuck in California]

Topical, specific to Reason, and very dark.

Winner on all counts.

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$15 for an eBook? That's some pretty rich humor right there!

[Don't look at me!]

Chicks aren’t funny.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Noted "liberal", Christopher Hitchens agrees.

[Zeb]

As a broad generalization there is some truth to that. But I know some pretty funny chicks. Attractive ones, even.

[A Cynical Asshole]

As a broad generalization there is some truth to that.

Is that a broad generalization or a generalization about broads?

[Gaear Grimsrud]

My wife is hilarious.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

I agree!

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Humor can bring people together? Maybe, if none of the people are activist zealots who consider any criticism, especially from somebody trying to be "funny", as blasphemy and capital crimes.

[Liberty Lover]

Comedy, humor laughing, and fun all upset, offend and outrage the left. They always feel they are being picked on, inferiority complexes.
If it is funny it is sexist, racist, homophobic or trans-phobic to a leftie.

[Nardz]

It is funny to anyone who isn't a self-serious cosmo bugman.
It's also horrifying.

[Mother's Lament]

Timpf hits all my buttons, except she looks so frail I'd worry about breaking her arm just by shaking her hand.

[Stuck in California]

That's hot.

[Elmer Fudd the CHUD]

A lot of small chicks like being tossed around like a Raggedy Ann doll during rough sex.

[Stuck in California]

Bigger girls, too. They want to feel small. **

**source: a 5'9" girl complaining to me that she wasn't tiny like my 5' tall ex. Who also complained that she wasn't tall. And "You're all the right height laying down" just got me in trouble with both of them.

[Zeb]

For me she's one of those odd cases where everything seems like it should work, but there is something about her that doesn't quite do it for me. Not to say I'd kick her out of bed for eating crackers.

[Mother's Lament]

Nicole Kidman was like that for me. I she looks perfect, moves gracefully and has a nice voice, but I don't find her attractive and have no idea why. It's always been a puzzle to me.

[Flaco]

The questioner at 37:30 is pretty clearly Gene Epstein from the Soho Forum events. I'm surprised the Jacket didn't mention that.

[Gaear Grimsrud]

Good to see that Reason has a token libertarian they call on.

[EscherEnigma]

No clue about who this person is, but I'm guessing their gripe is the same old "I made a joke and suffered social consequences, and that's so unfair!"

Which is to say,they aren't complaining about violations of their Freedom of Speech, they're complaining that other people exercised their own Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Association.

Or to put it in other words... you have the freedom to make any joke you want. You are not, however, entitled to anyone thinking you're funny.

[damikesc]

Not sure it’s wise to make assumptions about somebody you have no clue who they are.

Your assumption was wrong. Completely.

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No clue about who you are, but I’m guessing a knee-jerk douchebag who absolutely insists on having uninformed hot takes about everything. I also predict you like guacamole and water polo.

Or to put it in other words… you have the freedom to make any post you want. You are not, however, entitled to anyone thinking you know what you’re talking about.

[Trollificus]

Yeah. The most salient part of that comment is "I'm guessing."
Which I'm not really that interested in.

[jdgalt1]

People who dye their hair unnatural colors crack me up every time I see one. Who says they're not funny?

So do the dimwits who try to seriously argue for wokism.

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