Nowadays everyone’s inbox is filled with memes, cartoons and jokes about our continuing political, economic and environmental disasters. And even though each one is another reminder of a horrible situation, we laugh. Why? Because we have to; laughter is critical in terrible times because it reminds us we can still feel joy.
Join David Misch, Mel Brooks, Samuel Beckett, Sarah Silverman, Charlie Chaplin, Laurel & Hardy and Key & Peele to see how comedy has always laughed at tragedy – from the Black Death to the Holocaust to 9/11; how we’re doing it now; and how humor can help get us to tomorrow.