I'm a Joke and So Are You: Reflections on Humour and Humanity

by Robin Ince

When the obsessionally self-reflective author Karl Ove Knausgard asked the neurosurgeon Henry Marsh about the disappointment that arises if all of our perceptions and creativity are proved to come from nothing more than matter, Marsh replied, ‘It upgrades matter, it doesn’t downgrade thoughts and dreams.’