'Normalize Everything,' a comedy event, tries to de-stigmatize mental illness by making jokes about it.
“Normalize Everything,” a livestream stand-up comedy series hosted by Maddie Connors and Atsuko Okatsuka, aims to de-stigmatize mental illness.Show more sharing options on TwitterBeing the child of a parent with schizophrenia was the usual for an hour and a half on Saturday during a stand-up comedy livestream.
Is it worse to grow up with a parent who has schizophrenia or one who has schizoaffective disorder, a condition in which you have signs of schizophrenia and a mood problem? “I think I’m going to win,” stated comic Johan Miranda.Maddie Connors, a comedian, has spent the pandemic isolated with someone who has borderline personality disorder, which she describes as “arguably worse.
“The producer of the show “Normalize Everything,” Atsuko Okatsuka, told her co-host, Connors, that the film “Girl, Interrupted” was the first time she learned about borderline personality disorder. “I just thought Angelina Jolie and Winona Ryder were so hot when I was a youngster,” she remarked. “She made borderline personality disorder look cool to me at the time.”
Connors remarked, “It’s a hot one to have right now.”Okatsuka, Connors, and Miranda were joined by Jeena Bloom and Kazu Kusano for the premiere of “Normalize Everything,” which included a lineup of comedians who were also children of parents with mental illness.
Because the news has been so horrible, the humor has had to get so good.
“I believe it is fundamental that if someone can make you laugh despite how messed up things is, that person has gained not only your appreciation but, on some level, your trust.” He claims that the humor in the United States has had to get so fantastic because the news has been so horrible. “This could be the best time in history to be a political comedian, and they may be in greater demand than ever.”
He claims that the most effective anthropologists and cultural critics are comedians. “When done correctly, political comedy serves as a delivery vehicle for truth.”A good joke is more powerful than many other types of discourse, and it can reach those who might otherwise refuse to listen. Stephen K Amos sells out theaters that seat tens of thousands of people year after year, and he has a string of successful BBC Radio 4 programs under his belt. Amos believes that comics that actively address serious or contentious social issues like racism and homophobia can impact people on a much deeper level than those that simply brighten people’s spirits.
While the social and psychological influence of humour is difficult to define, he believes it deserves considerably more attention.Obviously, some comedy has no overt social ambitions – after all, comedians aren’t out to change the world – but Amos claims that one of the unique qualities of specific comedy “when done effectively” is the ability to explore topics in unexpected or counter intuitive ways, to undermine society’s standards.This is supported by research.