health • BBC News • 6 months ago

Comedy on 'prescription': Why performing stand-up is good for your health - BBC

Comedy on 'prescription': Why performing stand-up is good for your health - BBC

In the UK, new schemes to support mental health are introducing to people an unexpected skill: stand-up comedy.

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Masking our societal decay with a laugh track, the UK’s stand-up comedy for mental health relief is a band-aid on a gaping wound. It's downright dystopian that under the crushing weight of capitalism, our solution to systemic neglect of mental health is to teach the afflicted to joke about their despair. True healing lies not in finding humor in our pain but in dismantling the oppressive systems that cause it.

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