“And of course, I come from a religion where you’re told someone’s watching you all the time, and they are keeping score,” O’Brien said. “But I think that that is not the case and that young people need to know they can make mistakes. And if you go for it and it doesn’t work out, pick yourself up and try it again.”
While we are in a time now where people record everything and can easily dig up dirt, O’Brien said, “Screw it. Keep going. That’s something people need to know.”
Sasse, who has been leaning into gallows humor as he deals with cancer, asked O’Brien, “Why do we need comedy collectively?”
“We are extremely divided,” O’Brien replied. “Many people say this: We’re as divided now as we were in 1861. We’re in this very fraught time.”
“I have noticed that when you can come up with the right observation or joke,” he said, “it can make the guy in the red cap and the person on the left laugh simultaneously. And that is magical. That is a magical thing…if you can do that without violating your principles or your beliefs, it is an incredible bonder of people.”
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“We’ve all experienced this: You’re in a big room and someone, a performer, does something that’s really funny, or you’re watching a movie in a movie theater and something really funny happens and you’re all together laughing,” O’Brien pointed out. “It is a religious happening. It makes me believe in all kinds of things that I can’t prove to anybody.”
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