Comedy, it'll make you laugh even when it has a hard edge, like a comic in Ukraine

tracking incoming fire on an app.

Sometimes missiles are late, and Ukrainians become angry, like, where's this Russian missile?

We're an Australian looking to Van Gogh for manic inspiration.

I think he's the best artist because he had the most mental illnesses.

So I'm really looking into how to get more.

Today on the world, an hour of global laughs.

From Chinese exiles telling jokes, they could not tell at home.

We talk a lot of like

sensitive issue everything happens here stays here to an Indian comic trying out an

American audience I'm not so Indian that I would study to be a doctor but like I'm

Indian enough where I would never use a white doctoredians telling it like it is today on the world.

This is the world. I'm Marco Werman.

And I'm Carolyn Beeler. We have a special treat for you today, a show all about comedy.

Some of our favorite stories from the archives about comedians and the relief we get from laughing,

even during hard times.

Maybe especially during hard times.

Our first two stories take us to New York City, home of many comedy clubs, and where

increasingly comics from other countries are expanding their audiences.

We begin with stand-up comic, Veerdas.

In India, he's a household name. Less here, so when he did a residency this fall at New York's Lincoln Center theater, reporter Sishmita Pataq settled into the theater for his set. As the lights dim, the crowd goes quiet. All right, ladies, gentlemen, please welcome, Beardas. And then erupts in cheers.

Veer Das has been a superstar in India for years.

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