What does humor bring to a political movement?
Well, it’s very disarming. It’s very pleasurable, so people choose to engage with it, or if they find themselves engaging with it, they choose to stick around or pay more attention to it. It feels like more of a fair exchange; if you’re going to ask people to care about something, you’re at least giving them something in return that’s entertaining. It’s very humanizing…it feels very crucially and essentially human. Also, personally, it makes [the work] more bearable for me. [Humor] is a very organic modality for me to communicate and draw people to an effort or cause. And it’s very attractive to the media. There’s downsides, too…like it makes it more difficult to do the work. To write a position paper that is both funny and factual, and on message, that’s very difficult. That’s a high art form. K: In your opinion and according to your experience as a veteran activist, what can Billionaires for Bush achieve that other forms of political activism might not be able to? A: The thing that w
