The Stay Woke Comedy Show comes to Starr Bar for its first installment on Saturday, March 11 at 8 p.m. The show, organized by Nekoro Gomes, will feature a wide-spectrum of performances focused on social justice issues.

I spoke with one of the performers Bushwick-based comedian and first generation immigrant, Mamoudou N’Diaye, about his comedy and what it means to be a comedian in a world that has gotten suddenly more political to a lot more people. 

N’Diaye says that there are still plenty of shows where “people talk about the day to day” but notes that now “the stories about ourselves have become entrenched in the political climate.” In other words, we can’t escape politics in our daily lives, so politics in our comedy is more and more ubiquitous.