We're talking comedy and migration with mave higgins. Mave is a writer and comedian from ireland, but often talks about immigration. How did you start thinking that you wanted to take such a serious issue and find comedy in it? And best of all, our listeners get ten % off their first month at better help dot com slash human.
On a list of the least funny topics imaginable, the global refugee crisis, border disputes, and questions of citizenships are probably close to the top. And yet comedian Maeve Higgins has spent her career finding ways to make jokes about (and make sense of) the ways we draw lines across the globe. She’s a standup and a writer who speaks from the point of view of an Irish immigrant in the United States. In this episode, she talks about ways we can find funny and eye-opening vantage points to look at the realities and borders of the world, our place in it, and how imagination and laughter can help us through tough times.