I’m pretty clownish. It’s meant to be non-threatening potential between differen

I’m pretty clownish. It’s meant to be non-threatening potential between different peoples. And people in this part of the world people don’t think it’s really funny – because they’re so much more homogenous. Sort of like how Americans don’t think Jerry Lewis is funny but the French do. Clownish humor is a bit optimistic. Humor in this part of the world is a bit pessimistic – a subtle ‘black’ humor, very dependent on artful use of language. So it’s a combination of wit, nihilism, and is somehow related to exhibiting when sober, the kind of stupid one exhibits when drunk. So while it tends to be a bit ‘old fashioned’ from our western point of view (still in the parable, fairy tale, and agrarian context), it is actually more effete (educated), value laden, and artistically stated. And our American humor is by contrast, a bit ‘crude’.