Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 24, 2026
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ecessarily. You know not everybody laughs. Did you know that? Do you know people who don't laugh? A lot of them you don't really notice do you? There are lots of people who don't ever laugh. Ever. It's like not a thing. In the same way that maybe I don't have musical appreciation I think there are lots of people maybe a third who don't have humor appreciation and they don't ever laugh. How is that…

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ybody having a bad year, an unusually bad year with allergies? Go. Is anybody having? Yeah I think in my case staying away from the sulfites was the big change for me. All right worst. Okay so a lot of you are having worse years with allergies. All right. All right so there's nothing there probably.

Do you laugh at the show Family Guy? Yeah some of the episodes of Family Guy are just ridiculously funny. Others are a little bit phoned in. How do pigeons know the same song? I don't know. Do you talk with Gutfeld every day? No not every day but we communicate a lot. Have I told you lately that I love you? You have not and I've noticed that a lot of you have not told me lately that you love me and I'm feeling that because I love all of you. So are you supposed to love me back? I know it doesn't work that way. Have you ever met Mike Judge? No but he holds a singular distinction in my professional life. Do you know what that is? There's something that Mike Judge did that no one else has ever done since I became the Dilbert cartoonist, meaning since I became famous. Do you know what that is? He would not return a phone call. He's the only one. I've never had anybody who wouldn't return a phone call. And tell him you know one of the benefits of being famous is that you can contact other famous people or just other people and if you say who you are they'll like oh I'll definitely return that call because I get to tell a story about I talked to a famous person. Who wouldn't return a phone call to a famous person? You would right? Wouldn't you? If somebody left a message and it was somebody you'd heard of like actually a famous person and they said can you please call me back here's my phone number you would call him back would you not? Only one time in my entire famous life that's you know maybe 25 years or so in my famous life only one person has refused or for whatever reason I don't know if he refused but only one person didn't return a call. It was Mike Judge. Don't know why. I had a professional question I wanted to ask him but I never got it answered. He didn't get the message? No doubt. I think he got the message. Jim Davis? Yeah I've talked to Jim Davis a number of times. Jim Davis is a great guy. Well one of the things that people don't understand about the creator of Garfield, Jim Davis, is that he had a, I believe his degree was in business. And so it's no surprise that two of the people who had business as a background, I would be the other one, did bet

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ter with their cartoons than people who did not have a business background. Surprise. It's probably not a coincidence. Probably makes a difference if you know how to grow a thing, if you know how to turn a business into a business. I don't think it's a coincidence that the two people with business training did better in their cartoons. I think it's part of the talent stack. Will California be gre…

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