Why Are Comedies So Popular? | The History and Future of Humor

from Mountain Meditations · host Christopher Cole

In today's episode, Tristan and Chris delve into the way humor has progressed in the past eighty years of cinematic comedy. We have a sort of old vs. new competition between the way laughs were dealt out in the mid 1900s as opposed to the movies we watch today. As always, at the end we each pick our top 5 comedy movies of all time and share why we think you should watch them too.

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