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Richard Herring: My joy is spoiled by a wee dilemma

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Illustration: The Boy Fitz Hammond
(Illustration: The Boy Fitz Hammond)

My latest tour show, Happy Now? (coming to a town near you in the spring of 2016 – tickets make the perfect Christmas gift for your family, friends, pets and enemies) attempts to investigate whether, at the age of 48, I am finally content and whether happiness is even desirable.

Because the problem with being happy is that, as soon as you realise you have achieved a state of joy, you are immediately terrified about all the things that could happen to spoil it and consequently become more unhappy than you would have been if you’d never been happy in the first place.

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