Coronavirus Comedy

Kasha explores the different ways people are joking about coronavirus and the purpose behind the jokes. She talks to the creators of one comedy project in New York City called, “Asians Strike Back: A Coronavirus Science and Comedy Show.” This interview was conducted on March 9th and details were current at the time but may have changed since.

Asians Strike Back: A Coronavirus Comedy & Science Show was hosted by Kyle Marian (@kylemarian) and Esther Chen (@theestherchen). Select performances by Dylan Adler, Anhtriet Tran, Bryan Yang, Asian Not Asian Podcast's Mic Nguyen & Fumi Abe, and Woody Fu. Featured scientists were Raj Sivaraman and Diana Klatt.

Other featured segments were clips from The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, stand-up by Norm MacDonald (full performances on his YouTube channel), "Jealous Corona" by the Vietnam Ministry of Health, and "The Coronavirus Lament" by Randy Rainbow.

For more science comedy resources, visit www.DCScienceComedy.com. and follow Kasha Patel for more jokes and #scicomm tips outside of the podcast.