(Wolf, in her HBO special, says that “Mother Nature is trying to kill us in the most passive-aggressive way possible.
But comedians like Perdue, as well as higher-profile acts like Michelle Wolf and Joel Kim Booster, are also taking on the climate crisis. “We just have to tell people the sun is Black.”Ĭlimate change has increasingly featured in television dramas and apocalyptic thrillers. “ is free labor, and the most American thing to do is to use free labor,” he says in one of his sets.
Their work is part of a broader effort to bring some levity to a topic that is increasingly present in everyday life.įor Perdue, that meant bringing race into the conversation about sustainability and clean energy. The Climate Comedy Cohort produced shorts, toured together, and pitched ideas to television networks.
Perdue was one of nine comedians who took part in a nine-month fellowship where they learned about climate science and solutions and collaborated on new, climate-related material.
