Ricky Gervais Has a Heart
“There is only one true philosophical problem, and that is suicide.” So begins The Myth of Sisyphus, the landmark 1942 philosophical essay by the French philosopher Albert Camus. Cutting to the heart of philosophical discourse, dense with jargon and wooly thought experiments, Camus maintained that “the fundamental question of philosophy” was the matter of whether life was indeed worth living. For Ricky Gervais, it may also be the fundamental question of comedy.
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