Comedy is political. Comedians get away with saying things many people couldn’t, or at least deliver them in a way they can be received. It’s like this Bermuda Triangle in which anything goes, and I think it’s a really special, crucial part of our world. Like certain genres of music are associated with periods of social change, and music generally speaking can do so much to pull people together or shift our thinking and perspective, it can be way easier to connect with ideas when they’re delivered candidly.

Life can be hard, and it can be boring. Comedy, and entertainment generally speaking, offer a measure of escape, and that’s so valuable. I lost the love for the entertainment world after writing about it for a while, but after going back to school to study humanitarian development, and doing that full time for a year and a half, there were days my brain just needed to watch things like this, and this. Continue →