Jimmy Carr is a British stand-up conic who I wish would play close enough to where i live to justify my pitching an interview with him for the comedy column I write. In the clip included with this question, he articulates the premise for his latest book, On Jokes (Or, why everything you know about comedy is wrong): The Hidden Mechanics of Funny, wherein he also speaks of people in industrialized nations being prone to want to be entertained, but not entertain themselves His book and argument aside, had you heard of Carr before reading this question?

Carr has recently stated in an interview that he believes stand-up comedy should be taught as a school subject; his assertion is that the artform from which he derives his living is a way to master verbal dexterity, self-expression, self-definition, and shifting perspectives on the events of one's own life. Do you agree that stand-up is a suitable subject for academia?

In the aforementioned interview, Carr also stated that it's more importamt for students to learn about comedy than it is for them to be educated about music, though he's emphatic about the importance of the latter. Which do you believe is more important to be taught, music or comedy?

Even in your adulthood, do you think you could benefit from learning stand-up comedy?