Jan Uuspõld Stand-up: How Humor Helps Us Get Through Life

Jan Uuspõld’s stand-up show “How Humor Helps Us Get Through Life” is a fresh, continually evolving performance that helps answer the question: why don’t we laugh at our misfortunes? “I’m a professional fool—that means I get paid for doing things people usually do for free, and with embarrassment.” Humor should be like an emergency number, helping us survive when things are at their worst. Or why is earning money such a serious subject that you can’t joke about it?

Jan draws sharp comparisons with life in the Soviet Union and shows how absurd many things from that time seem when we look back today. Is a 70-year-old auntie who knows how to send hearts on Facebook smarter than a 25-year-old IT genius who can’t even boil an egg? He explores the absurd connections between time, age, and wisdom in a way that makes you ask: “Who’s worse in the end?”

Jan Uuspõld is straightforward and honest on stage, saying things you think about in the shower but wouldn’t dare say even to your own reflection. The long-awaited Zorro himself will also take the stage! Zorro’s agenda is simple—less Uuspõld, more Zorro! Read more