Stand-up comedy to fight oppression

Ricardo P. Carvalho
3 min readMar 7, 2021

Should I be laughing at this?

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Laughing is the best remedy. We all love a laugh, especially with friends and family. It has the power to completely change our mood, taking us out of our own heads and even cutting through social awkwardness in first dates.

Science has proven that laughing has several benefits: it improves social bonds and brain connectivity, it releases…

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Ricardo P. Carvalho

I am the son of Freud, Maria Callas and postmodernism. Žižek is my grandfather.