I discovered the world of climate comedy thanks to @maxboykoff.bsky.social & @mattywin.bsky.social - and it is so therapeutic! I’d love to curate a starter pack on climate & humour, but I only have 3 accounts, with @belinaraffy.bsky.social. Baba Brinkman + Chuck Nice aren’t here. Suggestions? 🧵 - ThreadSky

katharinehayhoe.com • 36 days ago

I discovered the world of climate comedy thanks to @maxboykoff.bsky.social & @mattywin.bsky.social - and it is so therapeutic!

I’d love to curate a starter pack on climate & humour, but I only have 3 accounts, with @belinaraffy.bsky.social.

Baba Brinkman + Chuck Nice aren’t here.

Suggestions? 🧵

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lucysiegle.bsky.social•36 days ago

We held a climate comedy night as the centrepiece to our community climate and nature fest two years ago. I’m still laughing about it now. It was hilarious.

katharinehayhoe.com•32 days ago

that looks amazing!

yukinosaru.bsky.social•35 days ago

Stuart Goldsmith! https://www.stuartgoldsmith.com/climate had a great Edinburgh festival run and is a wonderfully thoughtful and damn funny guy, been around the UK scene for years and now focusing on climate. Bonus: his podcast prises open the craft of comedy with top names.

msthingy.bsky.social•36 days ago

Long live Jo Brand!

thebullypulpit.bsky.social•36 days ago

Wonderful concept. Gave me an idea.

Please sign me up:
https://bsky.app/profile/crisismgmt.bsky.social

drkumarrv.bsky.social•36 days ago

Why are these not on Netflix?

#netflix

imogenekoch.bsky.social•36 days ago

Thank you so much! You are an absolute angel in this entire situation. You get the word out to so many people and do so much work to spread the climate message. Thank you for everything you do ❤️❤️

katharinehayhoe.com•32 days ago

😊

revroll.bsky.social•36 days ago

Jo Brand!

revroll.bsky.social•35 days ago

@katharinehayhoe.com

Hi Professor! I'm trying to do my bit to talk about climate change by making podcasts about Christians campaigning: here's a recent one:

https://sites.libsyn.com/86403/lent-vigil-for-climate-justice

katharinehayhoe.com•32 days ago

I'm glad that is not comedy - thank you!

I think you would enjoy this starter pack

https://go.bsky.app/RMWNiio

stuartgoldsmith.bsky.social•35 days ago

Love your work Prof! I've been doing standup for 20 years and now gear it all towards climate:

https://youtu.be/azgNRACUjxk

katharinehayhoe.com•32 days ago

how have I not seen you before? thank you! - you're on the list now!

stuartgoldsmith.bsky.social•32 days ago

Honoured! Thanks so much

katharinehayhoe.com•36 days ago

I made this a thread because I wanted to share some more of my favorite videos with you, in addition to the phenomenal series above!

First up, this oldie but goodie:

katharinehayhoe.com•36 days ago

Jimmy Kimmell asked UCLA climate scientists what they really think. They didn’t hold back.

katharinehayhoe.com•36 days ago

I got my own turn as well. I tried to hold back, but it wasn’t easy.

katharinehayhoe.com•36 days ago

Not a climate scientist, but honorary mention for climate data. I think we’ve all wanted to smash the global temperature record over our heads at one point in our lives.

katharinehayhoe.com•36 days ago

The outstanding Australian series, as exemplified by…

katharinehayhoe.com•36 days ago

Probably the very first climate comedy video I ever saw, from 2010

ajsadauskas.bsky.social•36 days ago

And @thejuicemedia.bsky.social is right here on BlueSky too 😸

sciencedawn.bsky.social•36 days ago

📌

dianaliv.bsky.social•36 days ago

If you include cartoonists the First dog cartoons in Guardian often do climate themes with an Australian angle https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/gallery/2024/dec/30/the-best-of-first-dog-on-the-moon-cartoons-2024?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

katharinehayhoe.com•32 days ago

for sure, thank you!

ojc.bsky.social•36 days ago

@climatetown.bsky.social on YouTube is great for climate comedy!

https://youtube.com/@climatetown?si=1TxHWQhhYRhmsjlp

kswindells.bsky.social•36 days ago

Punters politics has some good fossil fuel posts for Australia https://youtube.com/shorts/wJadkYDvUzs?si=T55A5ZdMzb7qvDiZ

merylbatchelder.bsky.social•32 days ago

I'm an amateur in comparison to others but I've been writing a wry article every week titled 'Excerpts from the Diary of a Teacher on the Verge of Climate Breakdown' for almost a year. I use the pseudonym Melody Bird:
https://northeastbylines.co.uk/author/melodybird/

nonviolence.bsky.social•36 days ago

Today, climate reality is more funny than climate comedy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CXRaTnKDXA

belinaraffy.bsky.social•32 days ago

Let's add @kcotnauq.bsky.social to the list!

belinaraffy.bsky.social•36 days ago

Yay! Lovely starter pack. @maxboykoff.bsky.social is awesome! I created this course over 9 years ago and have run it over 50 times online and across 10 countries https://www.sustainablestandup.com/. And @stuartgoldsmith.bsky.social is awesome too. Sent u a DM. Let's chat. :)

charlottegarden.bsky.social•36 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/olifro.st

katharinehayhoe.com•36 days ago

Oh my gosh, yes. He was going through my head when I wrote this thread and then I totally forgot. Thank you!

juliebygraves.bsky.social•36 days ago

If you want to add me to a group of three, please do!

katharinehayhoe.com•32 days ago

I would love to add you to one of my starter packs but to be honest I'm not sure which. Would you mind taking a look at my full list and letting me know which is most aligned with what you generally post on here? Based on your bio I could see a few of them fitting -- so it's best if you choose :)

juliebygraves.bsky.social•32 days ago

Thank you so much. I’d love to be added to your climate writers starter pack.

If you have space, I’m looking for co-writers on comedy writing. So that SP great, too. But secondary.

katharinehayhoe.com•32 days ago

Where do you publish? That package is of writers I know and follow, so I would need to read some of your pieces first.

juliebygraves.bsky.social•36 days ago

I write about climate with wry humour. Trying to be less wry and more LOL.

I’ve got the monopoly on dad climate jokes. Different to climate dad jokes.

chaoticbrainperson.bsky.social•36 days ago

I think @olifro.st might qualify?

katharinehayhoe.com•36 days ago

100%! I was even thinking of him as I was writing the thread, but I have not yet had my morning tea so I totally forgot.

nolanhahn.bsky.social•36 days ago

Climate Town does great work, I really like his one on housing and suburban sprawl
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DSfsCniN7Nsc&ved=2ahUKEwibl-rqvf-KAxWfFzQIHRSDIdsQwqsBegQIERAF&usg=AOvVaw052AdPCQsMvSTK7L2uJZfa

ronan369.bsky.social•36 days ago

Rolly @climatetown.bsky.social is the best! Along with the brilliant Nicole on their “Climate Deniers Playbook” podcast. 🙏🌍🌱

nicoleconlan.bsky.social•36 days ago

It me 😇😇

katharinehayhoe.com•36 days ago

They definitely count, that makes five! I just need one more for a starter pack

vedachalam.bsky.social•29 days ago

Yoram Bauman, the "stand-up economist" https://standupeconomist.com/cartoon-climate/

plitter86.bsky.social•35 days ago

📌

pattimaw.bsky.social•29 days ago

Also not yet here on bsky, but I the Climate Comedy Cohort are right up this alley (https://generation180.org/climate-comedy/comedy-cohort)

katharinehayhoe.com•29 days ago

They should be here!

tolmeia.bsky.social•35 days ago

I thought this bit about COP over on Instagram was one of the rare climate comedy bits that made a serious topic funny without being insensitive to the reality of what we’re facing: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DCwWY0EMvi1/?igsh=bGI4bG53dGd5d3cw

zoesamuel.bsky.social•32 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/weareyellowdot.bsky.social is Adam McKay's climate studio

zoesamuel.bsky.social•32 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/rashedacrockett.bsky.social isn't active on here yet but here she is doing climate comedy at SF Climate Week: https://youtu.be/AAN-T7QpXEw?si=k0F5ApYDxvSe83Os

@megan-sass.bsky.social is hilarious, performed here at SF Climate Week with Yellow Dot's Cobell Energy series: https://youtu.be/AAN-T7QpXEw?si=k4A4HCPVnP4CRHrC&t=655 (same vid but starting later)

megan-sass.bsky.social•32 days ago

Hello! I’m a writer/comedian and I hosted some panels at SF Climate Week, one of which was for the @weareyellowdot.bsky.social series Cobell Energy.

carbon-cyclist.bsky.social•36 days ago

Hey I took Belina’s Standup course years ago. She’s great!

katharinehayhoe.com•32 days ago

that's awesome!

kateschapira.bsky.social•36 days ago

Caroline Contillo does this but I don't think she's on here? She's in the Hudson Valley

erwinmulders.bsky.social•36 days ago

This is great work Katharine!

viktorkoves.bsky.social•35 days ago

You have to check out Climate Town! Top notch researched content with some great comedy writing

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K2oL4SFwkkw

sepponet.bsky.social•35 days ago

Cartoonists also use humour and satire to illustrate climate issues. Here are some from my archives:

katharinehayhoe.com•32 days ago

definitely!

nancyknowlton.bsky.social•35 days ago

Randy Olson’s “Sizzle: a Global Warming Comedy” 2008 way ahead of his time

mattywin.bsky.social•36 days ago

If you're interested, and are old school, you can read or listen to my climate comedy book.

Available in the UK, USA, Australia and others plus translated to Dutch and Chinese.

Hot Mess https://g.co/kgs/5RkeZYL

mattywin.bsky.social•36 days ago

And you can watch a full climate comedy show from 2018 here.

https://youtu.be/NB-bKHEWmV8?si=4YUcIfaPPKr98y33

mattywin.bsky.social•36 days ago

We also make climate comedy sketches such as this as a collective at @warmingupcomedy.bsky.social and will have many more coming this year.

https://youtu.be/pm_n0Vi6pHQ?si=M33He_C8LoETTjUc

katharinehayhoe.com•32 days ago

as the first climate comedian I ever heard in real life, you are the inaugural member of the pack!

profmarkmaslin.bsky.social•32 days ago

And still the best 🤣 and Max is right it works as a communication tool - for example Jo Brand and I made it on to Breakfast TV to talk about climate change 👍🤣

mattywin.bsky.social•32 days ago

😁❤️ thanks. For a while I was the only one there was.

belinaraffy.bsky.social•32 days ago

Been working in this space for 10 years to create more climate comedians :) Looking forward to speaking with you and Izzy on the 29th

lafoley.bsky.social•32 days ago

Looks good! Copy ordered from my online indie bookstore. 😀

mattywin.bsky.social•32 days ago

Ah amazing. Thanks!

isabegou.bsky.social•36 days ago

Not sure if it is humour or tragedy and it is french but https://bsky.app/profile/gemenne.bsky.social/post/3lfu2k7uyoc2s

dhilrukshi.bsky.social•35 days ago

Bring on the dark humour! I need it.

ruthsustainable.bsky.social•36 days ago

https://youtu.be/XFPY4MfqAbA?si=71ceCXzUGbYk3ztI comedy and satire 🤗 Definitely excellent medium for climate communication

msstma.bsky.social•36 days ago

I think the message has been received. The problem is the polluters and corporations in power are resisting any change.

dorothyknable.bsky.social•35 days ago

Katherine, I really like you -- so --Just an idea:
"When recommended by Christian-Environmentalist, https://KHayhoe.bsky.social , https://ClimateComedy.bsky.social might sound frumpy, like a perm. RU kidding, every Bio-Diverse body starts naked, procreating, eating, and defecating."
(I'm 76 and use valances.)

juliebonjour.bsky.social•36 days ago

📌

jkone27.bsky.social•36 days ago

@weareyellowdot.bsky.social are my absolute favourite climate satire 🔥🌎🦸 true legends, check them out on YT

hannahdaly.ie•36 days ago

@colmoregan.bsky.social wrote a book called “Climate Worrier” that is laugh-out-loud funny - very cathartic.

dibeliusc.bsky.social•36 days ago

Was just going to mention him too. Allowed my teenage daughter to poke even more fun at me, and me to laugh about myself... Very relatable.

jackadoodle.bsky.social•36 days ago

Love Jo Brand.

j051.bsky.social•35 days ago

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8p1rpL8wM1A

j051.bsky.social•36 days ago

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMGJWZbCnXkb
and more of that style on their youtube channel

harrydcoulson.bsky.social•33 days ago

Would be fab! and I wonder how much climate comedy increases subsequent pro-environmental (attitudes &) behaviour 🤔

…Reminds me of this related study (investigating reactions & sharing behaviour to environmental satirical cartoons)

@glenspiteri.bsky.social
https://bsky.app/profile/glenspiteri.bsky.social/post/3lcaymugnp22m

paul-bode.bsky.social•36 days ago

Climate town is hilarious

https://bsky.app/profile/climatetown.bsky.social

hearingparkles.bsky.social•35 days ago

Aha! I found you here this morning, and followed you partly because of the comedy collection idea. In a lovely coincidence just a couple of hours later, I heard you on CBC's Quirks and Quarks! I am hugely appreciative of your active approach to managing our concern about climate! Thank you!

katharinehayhoe.com•32 days ago

thank you Diana! 😊

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