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But this show isn't just about the bad parts. social media is very complicated in terms of what it's doing to us, and there's undeniably an incredible thing going on. it's an incredible form of mass technology, of mass communication. and i find that sometimes when i think it's at its worst, i'll do a joke, possibly trying to take down a troll, and then suddenly people will build on thatjoke. i have this process, which you'll know about in the show. i talk about people saying "yes to comedy", about accepting and building a sort of improvisational technique. and if i do that with a joke, then su...

But this show isn'tjust about the bad parts. social media is very complicated in terms of what it's doing to us, and there's undeniably an incredible thing going on. it's an incredible form of mass technology, of mass communication. and i find that sometimes when i think it's at its worst, i'll do a joke, possibly trying to take down a troll, and then suddenly people will build on thatjoke. i have this process, which you'll know about in the show. i talk about people saying "yes to comedy", about accepting and building a sort of improvisational technique. and if i do that with a joke, then sud...

If i don't think there's anything there. but this show isn't just about the bad parts. social media is very complicated in terms of what it's doing to us, and there's undeniably an incredible thing going on. it's an incredible form of mass technology, of mass communication. and i find that sometimes when i think it's at its worst, i'll do a joke, possibly trying to take down a troll, and then suddenly people will build on thatjoke. i have this process, which you'll know about in the show. i talk about people saying "yes to comedy", about accepting and building a sort of improvisational techniq...

A lot of abuse on social media and my process is to try and make that funny rather than getting angry about it or indeed ignoring it, whatever the mantras are. i try and make it funny because i see them, essentially, as hecklers, and thejob of a comedian is to try and make hecklers funny and certainly not to get angry about it. do you ever get angry? yeah, very occasionally, but not very often, actually, and less and less. i think now i very much treat them as fodder for comedy, or i do ignore them, if i don't think there's anything there. but this show isn'tjust about the bad parts. social me...

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