As a biocultural anthropologist and amateur stand up, I’ve spent over two decades exploring what makes things funny in theory and testing them on stage.
The book merges the precision of research with the insight of history and philosophy, revealing the decline of American humor as both a documented fact and a human tragedy.
This book explores the origins of humor, its evolutionary purpose, and what has happened to it in our modern, anti social age. It is a reflection on the least important yet most essential thing we humans do: laugh.
In America today, we are slowly losing our sense of humor. A culture of bureaucratic seriousness has made people afraid to speak freely, anxious to be on the “right” side, and hesitant to laugh. Nuance, honesty, and joy have become harder to express. This book explores the origin and purpose of humor and how it has withered in an age that has forgotten how to take a joke.
I perform stand-up comedy blending science, storytelling, and everyday humor to explore human behavior, relationships, and the absurd side of modern life.
I am a bio cultural anthropologist, specializing in how biology, the environment and culture come together
to shape health and behavior
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