Comedians, I'm a Comedian

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"I just suppose i didn't really feel like, especially when i was coming up in comedy in my twenties, it was, you know, very macho and a kind of chilvanistic," he says. "These days, i'm older, and i live in new york, and i do this show every week, and there's like so many interesting, fun people from all different perspectives." He adds: "Potentially, comedy can be am like, in the way all i suppose art can beor creativity can be, is a form of self expression"

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.