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In September 2019, when climate-justice activist Greta Thunbergattended the U.N. Had Thunberg been any other viral sensation, the shelf life of jokes like this would have been short.
Watch enough of their jokes back-to-back and identifiable patterns start to emerge.
On the day of theTimeannouncement, Chappelle was mocking the news on tour in Asheville, North Carolina.
How dare they import an angry white woman from Sweden?
he told an audience in a clip posted to YouTube by an attendee.
Get out of here.
Were going to let R. Kelly out of jail, and hes going to pee on you.
Jack Whitehall (July 2020)
What a boss she is!
Calling America and Canada!
Im going on tour in February and March this year!
See all dates and info via my website.
Tickets are on sale now!
She is a child, and shes raised a global climate-change revolution, he says.
When I was a child, I couldnt raise a Tamagotchi.
I hate that little fucking girl, she begins.
And I hate that you cant say you hate the little fucking girl because she autistic or whatever.
I dont hate the girl because shes autistic.
Im not a fucking savage.
I hate her because shes annoying!
The fact that Thunberg points the blame for the climate crisis toward adults like Jay.
Bitch, the shit was fucked up for me too!
she rants in her signature style.
What the fuck are you talking about?
I didnt walk onto a pristine Earth, bitch!
Shes telling people to make these huge lifestyle changes: Stop driving.
Start taking a train, he says before turning his attention to Thunberg directly.
Of course you think that.
Your trains probably work!
Girl, lets just get a beer, and Ill teach you how to smoke a cigarette.
No one told them!
Sometimes, they just need a specific name they can drop into a joke that doesnt require further explanation.
Such is the case in this Normand joke about Joe Bidensalleged habitof sniffing young girls hair.
I was always hoping Joe Biden would meet Greta Thunberg, he says, sketching out a hypothetical.
He sniffs her hair; hes like, Is it hot in here, or is it global warming?
Youve never paid a mortgage, you dick, he says in his Netflix specialCheeseburger.
You dont know how hard this is.
Youve never got a parking ticket when you got 19 bucks left to your name.
What are you going to do about the climate?
he asks the audience.
Unfortunately, all that extra time didnt pay dividends in the form of revolutionary new premises.
Then, like Jay, he balks at the idea that itshisgeneration who ruined the planet.
Not my generation, Greta!
Youre thinking of the cunts before me.
The generation before me did fucking nothing.Mygeneration invented the different-colored bins!
Shes trying to save the Earth from ourselves!
It dawned on me, she continues.
I was like,Oh my God.
What if, right now, my baby girl is defrosting, and I dont even know it?
Definitely not.She sailed across the Atlantic.
They dont have leashes that long.
Im just like, This is for Greta!
This is for the environment!
Maybe we should do something.
Everybodys like, Shut up you Swedish witch!
Are you even old enough to rememberFamily Matters?
Why dont you go back up the Alps and yodel, whore!
Im not listening to you.
Fern Brady (April 2024)
What do Fern Brady and Greta Thunberg have in common?
She solves the climate crisis, I continue to do meaningless jokes about cum.
We cant all be heroes.
She just doesnt know if itll beheraudiences kids wholl be best suited for this task.
To prove her point, Glaser offers an example: Greta Thunbergs parents arent here tonight.
Every time Wakim sees Thunberg getting arrested at a protest, he laments what it foretells about her future.
Weve ruined her … Shes not going to have a normal life.
No one is going to finger Greta Thunberg, okay?You cant penetrate the voice of a generation.
Its wrong, he says.
But thats what I want for the world.
Im optimistic, you know?
I want Greta to squirt.
If youre liberal, you should want that for the world.
Thats how youll know we have world peace: When she can relax enough to get there.
