Climate Comedy Cohort
The Climate Comedy Cohort is a one-of-a-kind national fellowship that brings together comedians to learn, collaborate, and create new comedy informed by the hottest climate science. Fellows explore how humor can cut through polarization, spark new conversations, and inspire real action on climate — and work it into their acts.
Co-created and led by Generation180 and GoodLaugh at the Center for Media & Social Impact, the Climate Comedy Cohort flips the script on how we talk about the climate crisis. While most Americans are worried about climate change, many don’t know where to start when it comes to taking meaningful action.
This program helps comedians become unexpected but powerful messengers – showing audiences that climate solutions go far beyond just recycling or bringing reusable bags. With the right dose of comedy, we can connect, engage, and move people from anxiety to agency.
Americans have an unprecedented opportunity to tackle climate change right at home by going solar, installing heat pumps, cooking with electric stoves, and more.
But it’s not just about upgrades — individuals can drive big change through policy advocacy too. Comedians play an essential role in helping people understand this stuff. They help cut through the noise, making climate solutions understandable, relatable, and even funny.
Meet the 2025 Cohort
About the Cohort
The Climate Comedy Cohort is a fellowship that equips comedians to become long-term ambassadors for clean energy and climate action. Fellows dive into the latest climate science, collaborate with experts, and create original comedy that brings solutions to life — and keeps audiences laughing and learning long after the program ends.
Led by a team of seasoned comedy writers and performers with credits spanning The Tonight Show, TruTV, VICELAND, Comedy Central, and more, the cohort invests in comedians as changemakers who can shift the climate conversation in unexpected ways.
Meet the Co-Creators
Generation180 is a national nonprofit working to inspire and equip people to take action on clean energy in their homes and communities.
We lead national education campaigns to electrify homes, buildings, and transportation — the biggest sources of carbon emissions. By partnering with artists and storytellers, we work to change the climate narrative from gloom and doom to “We Got This!” and give people meaningful ways to take action toward a cleaner, healthier, and more equitable energy future. The CCC is one of several programs Gen180 runs to equip creatives as clean energy ambassadors and reach new audiences.
GoodLaugh is a comedy production engine and knowledge lab that brings together the most talented minds in comedy, social justice, entertainment, and philanthropy to collaborate and create comedy and research to help repair the world and build a more just, equitable future.
As a program of the Center for Media & Social Impact (CMSI) at American University, GoodLaugh facilitates comedy production, studies, and convenings with social justice at the core. By making new comedy, distributing new knowledge and understanding, and bringing together unlikely players to leverage humor for social good, GoodLaugh believes that “laughing in the face of injustice” can solve, well, almost anything.