According to Comedy Central’s The Daily Show host-of-the-week Jordan Klepper and his Wednesday guest, transgender comedian ALOK, debating transgenderism is dumb because life is meaningless and we’re all going to “[bleep] die.”
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Then why discuss anything controversial? Because if ALOK’s claim is that the truth doesn’t matter because we’re all going to die, Klepper took it one step further, “Yeah, I love that. I love that. There's something unifying about that absurdism. If I were to make a pretentious reference, Albert Camus would talk about imagining Sisyphus happy. That is an absurd life that we live… Camus would say, 'Imagine Sisyphus happy as he pushes the rock up because all of existence is inherently meaningless and so reckon with that and connect with your neighbors.'”
If life is meaningless, why would one seek to connect with others? Logical problems aside, Klepper continued, “I want to quote you back to yourself. And I want you to talk about this too. You also say, ‘Humorlessness is what loses any campaign for social change.’ Talk to me about that.
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