Dolly Parton Told Khloé Kardashian That People Become Funny Because You Can’t Tolerate a Hard Life Without Laughing at It

Dolly Parton Told Khloé Kardashian That People Become Funny Because You Can’t Tolerate a Hard Life Without Laughing at It

Dolly Parton always said poor people are funny for a reason. She grew up in the Smoky Mountains, the fourth of twelve children in a poor family, and she never treated that childhood as something to sand down. On Khloé Kardashian’s podcast back in 2025, she traced her comic timing straight back to the people who raised her. “I know when we were growing up in the mountains as poor people, my daddy’s people were so funny, my mama’s people were so f…