Aleks Krotoski explores life in the digital world. What makes us laugh and why? And when so much of the web is there to tickle our funny bone, does anyone ever laugh out loud?
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Comedy = Tragedy + Distance and Time
Duration: 01:05
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OK Ikumi
Homemade Sequence
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Hauschka
Zahnluecke
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Hauschka
Paddington
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OK Ikumi
Rhea
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The Album Leaf
Torey's Distraction
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Hans Zimmer
On Thin Ice
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Smash Mouth
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Emma Blackery
is one of the UK’s most popular Youtubers, both as a singer-songwriter and a comedian.
She tells us what it’s like to be one of the new breed of comedy performers, and how the relationship with her audience is different to anything that’s come before.
Taylor Glenn
is a friend of the show (See DigiHuman ,Ìýshe’s great there too), an award winning comedian, writer and former psychotherapist,  so there was really no one better to explain how the tragic and the dark can be transformed into humour.
Taylor tells us about her Edinburgh Fringe show, ‘A Billion Days of Parenthood’, an unflinching exploration into her own post natal depression, and how it went from Twitter to Stage.
Pete Mcgraw
, a marketing and psychology professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, and co-author of .
He offers a new theory of comedy that may explain what’s funny online, and why.
Limor Shifman
She talks to us about memes, and the group dynamic of a shared sense of humour that flourishes online.
4 Chan Mods
Jay and our British Guest are both moderators on - a simple image-based bulletin board where anyone can post comments and share images that is also known as the internet’s bogeyman.
They explain the sense of humour of 4Chan, how much the reputation for the twisted is actually warranted, and why we all need a bit of  dark humour from time to time.
The Yesbar Virgins
Comedians included ,Ìý,Ìýand .
Broadcasts
- Mon 14 Nov 2016 16:30´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4
- Wed 4 Apr 2018 23:30´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4
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The Digital Human
Aleks Krotoski explores the digital world