Tic Tac Toe and Risk are both things you PLAY.
Tying your shoes and building a nuclear bomb are both things you LEARN.
A human is a giant to a bug but a bug to an elephant. You can BE both giant & bug.
The difference is scope & scale.
Tic Tac Toe is significantly easier and less time-consuming than a game of Risk.
Tying your shoes isn't nearly as stressful as building a nuclear bomb.
You can squash a bug without thinking but when you're face to face with something 100 times heavier than you, suddenly you know what it's like to be the little guy.
There are simple forms of play and complex forms of play. Hop scotch is a game but so is the stock market.
There are simple forms of learning and complex forms of learning. Anyone learning quantum mechanics had to learn their ABCs first.
There are simple forms of being and complex forms of being. You can have nothing with a positive mindset and everything's fine. You can have everything with a negative mindset and everything's chaos.
Comedy is the perfect intersection of PLAYING, LEARNING & BEING. 
That’s what makes comedy so profoundly human.
It’s the only space where playing, learning, and being co-exist in perfect harmony.
When we joke, we play.
When we reflect, we learn.
When we connect, we be.
Comedy trains our ability to zoom in and out—between bug and giant, Tic Tac Toe and Risk, tying our shoes and building bombs. It builds the mental agility, emotional flexibility, and social intelligence to know when to step in, step out, or step up.
Sometimes the simplest answer is right in front of our face and we can't even see it.
- Ever notice how people with the hardest jobs (paramedics, police, military, etc.) have the darkest sense of humour?
- Ever notice how the most confident and capable people know how to laugh at themselves?
- Ever notice how the less funny someone is, the more they complain?
Comedy in its simplest definition is funny storytelling that allows us to play, learn and be at the same time.
The difference between something being good or bad, right or wrong, yes or no is typically the story we tell ourselves with the information we have and the way we process that information.
Take anxiety for example.
Anxiety is storytelling. You're telling yourself a story from the past or the future. Shift that energy to the present and tell someone a story that made you laugh. Suddenly that energy shifts from inner-panic to outer-joy.
We need to start taking comedy very serious.
Comedy is the our most fundamental form of human connection. The easiest path to trust between strangers is sharing a laugh.
We use comedy—
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To PLAY (Break tension, explore hypotheticals, experiment without consequence)
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To LEARN (Understand patterns, challenge norms, question power, build insight)
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To BE (Express who you are, find shared humanity, bring light to dark places)
Comedy is more than escape or distraction—it’s holistic human integration.
If you're interested in learning more about how we're using comedy as a holistic human integration tool at The Other Comedy Company feel free to set up a discovery call with myself directly and I'd be happy to share the research, tools and programs we're using to bring teams and organizations closer their goals and each other.