How To Be Aggressively Delightful

Published: Feb. 23, 2018, 6:01 a.m.

If you\u2019re looking for a way to combat the online trolls and bots fomenting unrest in the U.S., comedian Negin Farsad might have a solution for you. \u201cI guess if I were to name it, it\u2019s a philosophy called \u2018being aggressively delightful,\u2019\u201d she tells us. Farsad, an Iranian-American Muslim, is the co-host of the podcast Fake the Nation, the author of the book How to Make White People Laugh, and sometimes you can hear her on our very own WBEZ as a panelist for NPR\u2019s Wait Wait \u2026 Don\u2019t Tell Me! She told us how she manages to be aggressively delightful, even when confronted with intolerance.