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Comedians Can’t Stop Doing Jokes About Greta Thunberg

There’s mounting evidence they never will.

“We got plenty of angry white bitches here … Every time she talks, I roll my eyes like Jeopardy: ‘ I’ll take “Things Black people don’t give a fuck about” for $1,000, Alex.’” In a characteristically Chappelle move, he escalates the joke into shock territory: “How old are you, Greta Thunberg? For the contrarian take to Chappelle’s perspective there’s Whitehall, who, in his Netflix special I’m Only Joking, calls Thunberg a “boss” who riles “dickheads” up by living her “best life.” “She is a child, and she’s raised a global climate-change revolution,” he says. Her specific audience, she jokes in her HBO special Someday You’ll Die, consists of people who “paid money to see a comedian who mostly talks about her pussy.” To prove her point, Glaser offers an example: “Greta Thunberg’s parents aren’t here tonight.”

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