An Evening with Chris Duffy

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Join us for an in-person and virtual* Live Talks Los Angeles event:

Tuesday, February 17, 2025, 8pm

*Virtual event airs on February 24 at 6pm PT/9pm ET

An Evening with Chris Duffy

discussing his book, Humor Me: How Laughing More Can Make You Present, Creative, Connected, and Happy

TICKETS:

• $50 General Admission ticket + signed book
• $25 General Admisison ticket
• Additional signed books available for purchase at event

• The virtual version of this event airs on February 24, 2025, at 6pm PT/9PM ET and is available on video-on-demand for five days. Tickets include a signed book
• Tickets for the virtual event can be purchased here (includes the signed book)
• ASL interpreter provided upon request.
• Free parking at the venue

From comedian and host of the hit TED podcast, How to Be a Better Human, a hilarious and enlightening guide to laughing your way into a fuller life..

Chris Duffy is a stand-up comedian who has worked as a television writer (Wyatt Cenac's Problem Areas on HBO,National Geographic Explorer) and is currently host of TED’s hit podcast How to Be a Better Human, winner of the 2025 Webby Award for Advice & How-To Podcasts. He has appeared on Good Morning America, ABC News, and NPR.

“Warning: this book may cause repeated smiling. It’s a delightful read about how we can bring more levity into our lives.” —Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Potential and Think Again, and host of the podcast Re:Thinking

"Practical ways to giggle more every day? Without enabling my crippling laughing gas addiction? Yes, please!" —Bowen Yang, Emmy-nominated actor, comedian, and Saturday Night Live cast member

In his days as an exhausted fifth grade teacher, Chris Duffy taught the funniest person he’s ever met: eleven-year-old Gary. Gary was the school newspaper’s official food critic, blasting cafeteria pizza for looking like cardboard and opining that the baked beans weren’t “beany” enough. These days, Duffy is a professional comedy writer and the host of a podcast with millions of listeners, but he’s never forgotten the transformative joy of laughing with Gary during a bleak Boston winter. In Humor Me, he shares a road map for how to cultivate and strengthen a sense of humor in a challenging world.

Duffy embarks on a journey that takes him from comedy clubs to emergency rooms to a helicopter full of Navy SEALs and back to his own keyboard to reveal how—and why—a good laugh can bring us closer to the good life. Drawing on personal stories, insights from the social sciences, and the wisdom of comedians, Duffy offers practical strategies, including: the art of noticing, finding humor in the most unlikely places; Why you should take social risks (to build connection through humor!); How to apply the comedy secret that laughs come in threes.

Humor Me promises to deepen your friendships, enhance your creativity, and lighten life’s burdens, and is a genuinely funny read along the way.