There's still a place for comedy in and around Kyiv, argue nastiaderskaya, svlipko, and Lord_of_comedy, the organizers of 'That’s the News,' a daily wartime comedy show streamed via YouTube. drooziuk reports
The That’s the News livestream show on YouTube. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photo by Underground StandUp / Підпільний Стендап/YouTube That’s the News, the daily wartime comedy show streamed via YouTube by Kyiv’s Underground Standup Club, is not unlike most comics showcases — there are nervous laughs, memes, and cat jokes.
The YouTube episodes average about 10,000 views each, and their hosts engage with hundreds of viewers’ comments in real time. “We’ve all had our lives changed drastically overnight. But in war, you desperately need this sense of stability and structure. I believe that’s what comedy can provide,” Zagaikevich says. All three comedians have experienced personal tragedies, Dierskaia points out, and those tragedies inform their jokes.
Lipko, who served in the Ukrainian military in 2015, was quick to enlist again. “I hadn’t thought about jokes during the first days of war, but then I had to wait in this long line at the enlistment office,” he says. On February 26, Lipko tweeted that an air-strike alarm went off while he was in line, but no one rushed to the bomb shelter. “The fear to lose out on a machine gun was way worse than the fear to get killed by Russian bombardment,” the joke went.
On March 13, two days after Dierskaia cursed the Russians for violating the cease-fire and preventing her parents from leaving their town, she has better news to share on the show: her mother and grandmother have been safely evacuated and joined her in Central Ukraine. “I’m so happy for granny. You know, she’s not really a parkour runner at her age, so we gotta take care of her,” she says cheerfully. Dierskaia’s joke destroys her co-hosts, and Zagaikevich can’t stop laughing.
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