🎙️ Being and Becoming: The Artist, Comedian, and Philosopher – The Deeper Thinking Podcast

Being and Becoming: The Artist, Comedian, and Philosopher

The Deeper Thinking Podcast

For those who sense that the true work of thinking begins in laughter, creation, and the refusal to stay still.

Art, comedy, and philosophy are often treated as separate pursuits. But what if they are not separate at all? What if creating, laughing, and questioning are three facets of the same human impulse—to engage with the unknown, to resist certainty, and to shape reality from flux?

This episode explores the dynamic tension between Being and Becoming through the lens of the artist, the comedian, and the philosopher. Drawing on Nietzsche, Bergson, and Deleuze, we ask: is the laugh a disruption or a revelation? Is a painting a mirror or a mask? Is philosophy a search for truth—or a creative act itself?

Reflections

• Nietzsche believed that only those who can laugh have faced the depths of existence.
• Bergson saw humor as a reaction to rigidity—a creative force against the mechanical.
• Deleuze argued for Becoming over Being—identity as movement, not structure.
• If art transforms perception, comedy disturbs dogma, and philosophy remakes reality, what really separates them?

Why Listen?

• Reimagine philosophy not as argument, but as creative disruption
• Explore how humor can be a form of liberation, not escapism
• Discover the deep overlaps between identity, irony, and expression
• Engage with Nietzsche, Bergson, and Deleuze as allies in the art of Becoming

Listen On:

• YouTube
• Spotify
• Apple Podcasts

Support This Work

If this episode inspired reflection, you can support the podcast here: Buy Me a Coffee. Thank you for listening with curiosity.

Bibliography

• Nietzsche, Friedrich. The Gay Science. Vintage, 1974.
• Bergson, Henri. Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic. Dover, 2008.
• Deleuze, Gilles. Difference and Repetition. Columbia University Press, 1994.

Bibliography Relevance

• Nietzsche: Reimagines philosophy as joyful confrontation with chaos and change.
• Bergson: Frames comedy as disruption of the mechanical in favor of the organic.
• Deleuze: Offers a metaphysics of flux, challenging the stability of identity and art.

The artist expresses, the comedian subverts, the philosopher reframes—but all three reveal what the world could become.

#Nietzsche #Bergson #Deleuze #PhilosophyOfHumor #ArtAndConsciousness #Becoming #Identity #TheDeeperThinkingPodcast