When I’m feeling down, I watch stand-up comedy specials. There’s no feeling more powerful than laughing when all you really want to do is cry. Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Comedy traces the history and evolution of Black Comedy in the America and it’s quite insightful. Attention is given to the art of comedy which from the outside appears so simple, but on the contrary it is actually a science and an art.
To watch this you have to admire how comedians are able to take painful and difficult moments and make them funny.What a gift!