Go Ahead and Joke About Coronavirus

It’s not too soon

Danny Wallace
Forge
Published in
5 min readMar 21, 2020

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The biggest risk I ever took with a joke was in a London pub on a rainy Saturday afternoon.

I was out for a drink with a few acquaintances, and one woman in our group was telling the rest of us about the night she’d said her final goodbye to a man we’d all known. I’ll call him Edward. He’d passed away at almost 80, in the hospital, after living…

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Danny Wallace
Forge
Writer for

Author of “F You Very Much”, “Yes Man”, “Join Me” and more.