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Perhaps an unpopular opinion, but I feel humor detracts from a course most of the time. It's like breaking the 4th wall in cinema: you can do it, and some people do it to great effect, but as a rule you probably shouldn't.

Dan Ariely is unusually gifted, so his humor works.

For the vast majority of courses, I prefer when they stick closely to the material, so I can watch it at 1.7x or 2x without breaking stride.