A your self described humor engineer and you write books on how to master humor make jokes funny and singular how you are in this wonderful hero of 2020 do you see that the demand for humor is actually rising against a backdrop of the complete mass of everything or not really. Know it it absolutely is and i think part of the reason is you know with people being you know more social a distance and going much more things on earth theyre realizing how much humor that they used to have in their life that theyre now missing because you no longer you know always conversation with your coworkers you dont have to meet up with friends and even with strangers if you are wearing a mask you dont see this smiles in the last on their faces and so i think now more than ever isnt it really into how we use humor not just for our own kind of amusement but also to do things like manage stress and dont relationships and you know all the additional good its you are youve sat in. Talk that humor has to be p
Allah can do so because his inner is more so think shevardnadze humor can be a life that in dark times when it seems we have nothing to laugh about at all but how is todays reality transforming what we find funny. They swear that target humor interior and best selling author. And guitar in him are engineer and bestselling writer great to have you with us today what a time to talk about humor. Absolutely its one of those times where people are like is. Is it ok to talk about humor and in fact its one of those things where its definitely right so lets lets to construct this whole thing your self described humor engineer and you write books on how to master humor make jokes funny and sing care how you are in this wonderful hero of 2020 do you see that the demand for humor is actually rising against a backdrop of the complete mass of everything or not really. Know it it absolutely is and i think part of the reason is you know with. You know more social a distance to go on much more things
Good morning, it is midnight in beijing its 11 00 a. M. On wall street and squawk alley is live. Good friday morning welcome to squawk alley. Im jon fortt with carl quintanilla. Its the end of cloud week on squawk alley. What a week its been. They have brought news on custom chips, Machine Learning and more sales force announced plans to buy slack for nearly 28 billion in the second largest Software Deal ever. Weve had ibm and microsoft weigh in snowflake and others have turned in blah earnings well hear from the ceo this hour what does it mean for investors already sky high investor malic noijoins us now i cant believe we never had you on squawk alley before i hope this is a trend i want to start with sales force slack. I know that you have known stu butterfield for a long time, even before flicker was a hit. You think this very expensive deal makes sense why . So lets remove the price out of the equation. I think what youre looking at right now is in 2020, we have gone from the idea
You know all a conversation with your coworkers you dont have those and you want to meet up with friends and even with strangers and people are wearing a mask you dont see this smiles in the last on their faces and so i think now more than ever isnt it really into how we use humor not just for our own kind of amusement but also to do things like manage stress in built relationships and you know all the additional good its you are youve sat in attack talk that humor has to be positive and inclusive but heres the thing isnt humor supposed to be just funny 1st and foremost sins that that like the most important thing in humor and then Everything Else. So thats true for comedy comedy is the goal is to make people laugh but we think is a little bit more broad than comedy it includes things that are funny but it can also be something thats just a little bit different or something is a little bit silly where the goal is. And our focus at least you know as a humor engineer at my organization i
Of recent poll has shown that 2 thirds say theyre effective at curbing the spread of the coronavirus and 20 percent of those even say they want more restrictive measures. So we see there is broad support in the german, in the german population for the governments action. And that has been quite consistent over the past couple of months with several covert 19 vaccines now in the pipeline and nearing approval. Whats the governments garson Action Strategy . Well, the vaccination strategies is still being discussed. What we do know so far is that the government is planning 60 Vaccination Centers across the country. Its bound to receive vaccinate risk groups 1st, and its going to cover the costs. And obviously, very importantly, the Coronavirus Vaccine will be voluntary only from how much time. Thank you ladies. The numbers of infected people rise here in germany, hospital intensive care units are having to care for increasing numbers of critically ill patients. Although the countrys Health