This one took a lot of research, part two about Zizek, Lacan, Hegel, and Humour related to trump available on patreon.com/livposting Works cited/used for this episode “Refiguring Socrates: Comedy and Corporeality in the Socratic Tradition” by Daniel McLean “Postmodern Platos: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Gadamer, Strauss, Derrida” by Catherine Zuckert “Nietzsche and Comedy: Provocative Laughter Amidst a Tragic Philosophy” by Michael C. Rudar “The Odd One In: On Comedy” by Alana Zupancic  “Recent Continental Philosophy and Comedy: Comic Overflow” by Bernard Freydberg “The Idea of Comedy: History, Theory, Critique” by Jan Hokenson