Still, I’m willing to overlook that as long as one day we can look back at this all and laugh. Nobody, to my disappointment, made a joke about global warming. in order to stand in solidarity with the 800+ subs protesting Reddits pending changes to their API. It got so bad at one point a comic paused the show to open up the windows. My math teach assigned me and my group to get 100 people to give us their age and favorite color. IIL Songs like Self Love by Metro Boomin and Coi Leray. Public awareness of climate change is as high as it has ever been, with temperatures in Europe increasing at more than twice the global average, and last year’s heatwaves reportedly causing 20,000 deaths in western Europe.Īt the Greenwashing Comedy Club show I went to, the room was stiflingly hot due to a sun-baked early summer’s day. Perhaps that’s because the themes it explores are, unfortunately, becoming ever-more urgent. comments sorted by Best Top New Controversial Q&A Add a Comment. Since its launch three years ago, the Greenwashing Comedy Club, which is home to a revolving cast of comedians, has quickly grown in popularity and now hosts several performances a month across different venues in Paris. View community ranking In the Top 5 of largest communities on Reddit. Comedians like John Oliver have often deployed black humour to engage with climate problems, too. The Climate Comedy Cohort, for example, was recently set up by Generation180, a US based clean energy non-profit, and American University, to teach comedians about climate science and solutions to create new, climate-related material. The six comedians on the night also joked about other societal issues like menstrual leave, polyamory, racism in France, and even the more classic stand-up comedy territory of dating apps and ghosting - including a memorable bit from the night’s standout comedian, Rafaella Scheer. Metro Boomin has basically become the most in-demand producer of 2017, from cooking up sleeper hits for Jeezy and Gucci to making a rapper or a song blow up for simply featuring one of his beats. For example, the thorny issue of nuclear energy, evil oil companies, and the scourge of people who “take a shit in drinkable water” (rather than greywater, which can be safely reused).īut there were also more oblique references to environmental issues like the privilege of shopping in organic stores and the contrast between encountering an old woman on the metro, where you’d offer her a seat, versus in the street while cycling, where she becomes an infuriating roadblock.īut wisely, Greenwashing Comedy Club is not just limited to climate - which could quickly become dry. A post shared by Les Impactrices - Femmes & Diversité des voie.x pour le Climat were some head-on jokes about overtly climate issues.
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