About this episode
This episode explores how humor can address threats to civil liberties through a conversation with comedian W. Kamau Bell.
Can humor help us make sense of unprecedented threats to our civil liberties? Join us this week for a special episode of At Liberty, recorded live at SeriesFest in Denver, where Kamau and moderator Mo Fry Pasic explore Kamau's signature style of sociopolitical comedy, how something can be funny without being true, and why laughter means we’re paying attention. You can hear Mo in conversation with a different comedian each week on their podcast, Worse Than You with Mo Fry Pasic. And you can keep up with SeriesFest year-round at seriesfest.com. Our senior executive producer is Sam Riddell. This episode was executive produced by Jessica Herman Weitz for the ACLU, and W. Kamau Bell and Melissa Hudson Bell, PhD for Who Knows Best Productions. At Liberty is edited and produced by Erica Getto and Myrriah Gossett for Good Get.
People in this episode
Host: Mo Fry Pasic
Guest: W. Kamau Bell
Topics covered
- humor
- civil liberties
- sociopolitical comedy
- laughter
- SeriesFest
Keywords
- humor
- civil liberties
- sociopolitical comedy
- laughter
- SeriesFest
- ACLU
- podcast
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: ACLU, Who Knows Best Productions, Good Get
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