Why everyone should try standup comedy once | Jack Bernhardt
The benefits to society would be profound – not least that people would learn the difference between a joke and a threat• Jack Bernhardt is a comedy writer
We all like to think our chosen profession is the most important. Firefighters will tell you that they save people from burning buildings. Scientists working at Cern will tell you they push the boundaries of human understanding and achievement. They are wrong. The most important profession, objectively and definitively – more so than soldier, than paramedic, than the social media intern for Southern Trains – is standup comedian.
Right now, we need them more than we’ve ever needed them. Which is why I am proposing compulsory standup lessons for every single person in the country – so that we can all think more like comedians and save our society.
It would work like jury duty. You would get a letter in the post that would summon you to
