These last few months have been a shit-storm of violence, bigotry, public safety uncertainty, and an overall F-ING clown filled political circus.... On BOTH sides.
Who else has walked around at one point or another feeling a sense of complete and total helplessness?
ISIS
Omran Daqneesh (Syrian boy in the ambulance).
Nice
Paris
San Bernardino
Sudan gang rapes
Orlando PULSE Nightclub shooting
Aylan 'Alan' Kurdi (young refugee boy who drowned seeking a better life)
Boko Haram
Police violence
Anti Muslim Racists
RAPE Case dismissals
Cop murders
Refugee Crisis
Climate meltdown...floods and fires.
Trump.. Hillary... Oh Lord.
Raise your hand.
Well I'm in the game of comedy... So to all the comics who have dealt with the list above and MORE the past few months and STILL managed to be FUNNY....
I STAND AND APPLAUD YOU.
Sure, I still create. I put one foot in front of the other, write, produce #DriversMeg, network, marathon train, reach out to my agent, audition-eerrr or don't... but I can't lie, I feel unsure about humor lately... about laughing. Some days I think to myself;
"How do I be funny when I feel so helpless? There is so much evil. What can one joke bring?"
Like many humans I am searching for what MORE can I do?
Eleanor Goldberg of The Huffington Post wrote a BRUTALLY honest article about TRAGEDY PORN and being overconsumed with it's graphic and terrible images yet we don't really do anything about it***
DON'T LET "THE BOY IN THE AMBULANCE" BECOME TRAGEDY PORN
Like many, in the heart of all this bewildered violence and confusion, I feel lost. I want to leave this world a better place. But how? Sell my things, join Doctor's Without Borders, and move halfway around the world to a war torn- terrorist sleeper cell country? Or maybe push even harder and use my comedy to bring laughter to those who need it?
We are in this together. I too am still searching. Until I figure out my next step I promise this...
I will do better than the day before. I will honor my path SO much that it will inspire someone else to honor their path....
And maybe, just maybe, it'll cause a ripple...
#BetterThanYesterday
Love,
Meg
P.S. Incredible political art by @Khalidalbaih
Still think refugees should be turned away?
....My heart is with you Aylan and Omran.
(***I HIGHLY recommend reading her article. I also 1000% urge you to take at least ONE of her ideas on ways to help and turn it into ACTION.)
