I go back and forth on whether it’s okay to post the silly when it comes to Covid-19. Thoughts?
But in any case, I did think they did a good job with this.
Update: Thanks to Tim J for the translation of the note included on the YouTube page:
The caption reads “Who is not cheered by hearing this immortal classic? Performed by KORK, each in their own home office. NRK now broadcasts concerts every evening from Monday to Friday on NRK2? . . . ”
That being said, seen, and heard, please, everyone, be safe. Stay home.
I think silliness is not only permissible, but essential! Humour is one of the key ways we get through difficult times. Seeing the funny side of something helps give the strength to deal with the serious side. It doesn’t mean you’re no longer serious about what’s serious—just that you’re able to focus on the positive as well as the negative.
I was delighted to see that this is from NRK, the Norwegian national broadcaster! The caption reads “Who is not cheered by hearing this immortal classic? Performed by KORK, each in their own home office. NRK now broadcasts concerts every evening from Monday to Friday on NRK2″ . . . ”
I’m not sure whether NRK2 is available outside Norway. Their radio channel P2 is, though, and unless things have changed they also broadcast regular concerts. So even if you can’t watch the concerts you may be able to hear them.
Thanks, Tim!
I still go back and forth. Did people joke about WWII as it was going on? I wonder. Did we ever joke about 9/11? Will we? I just doubt it. I guess this is different because it’s not violence caused by mankind …?
Honestly … I like the silly and I like to laugh. So I’m enjoying these videos. (Of course I also cry sometimes.)
Both my parents lived through WW2, and people most definitely joked about it! Clips and repeats from wartime radio comedy were still broadcast here in the 1960s and 70s when I was growing up. I can’t remember specific examples at the moment, but humour having fun with situations such as rationing or people crammed together in air raid shelters certainly featured, along with humour which insulted Hitler.
I don’t think there was ever a joke about 9/11. At least not that I recall.
There was a show in the states when I was growing up that took place in a German prison camp that was a comedy, but every time it came on my dad talked to us about the horrors of that war. Still, he did watch it with us.
Maybe the humour has to come out of shared experience? If you’re surrounded by the horrors you don’t need reminding about them and the humour is a relief from them, but once the horrors are forgotten the comedy can seem like a denial of them.
It’s hard to imagine anyone joking about 9/11, but maybe it’s a bit different because it’s a moment in time and there was nothing lighthearted to be found in that moment. Similarly for Utøya in 2011.
Yes, I think 9/11 was just so awful and the terrorist aspect was horrendous. No one jokes about the shootings, either, that are far too frequent here. Some things can be dealt with in that way, even as a way to try and cope.