Taking an Active Role in Fighting the Pandemic

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You will probably find em people who are already helping, and then you can support them whatever way you want. I mean, i'm like a comedian, so i could do a show for them. I could donate money, i could raise a weariness, that tricky word, and ilsuggest to jump in there is 'don't re-invent the wheel' Instead of thinking like you have to re invent the wheel for people who may not even want the wheel at all.

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.