What makes you laugh?

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Contradictions make me laugh. And not just any contradictions—the glaring, slap-you-in-the-face, are-we-all-just-pretending-not-to-see-this kind. The kind that make you wonder if the world’s decision-makers are running on expired logic.

Take this gem: Jeff Bezos—billionaire, space cowboy, who has enough jets, boats, and delivery vans to single-handedly keep Big Oil in business, and whose personal pastime involves launching rockets into the atmosphere—is tackling climate change one cow fart at a time and has invested $9.4 million into developing a vaccine to reduce methane emissions from cow farts. That’s right, cow flatulence, the silent but deadly scourge of climate change. Meanwhile, wars rage on, belching more carbon into the atmosphere than an all-you-can-eat beef buffet at a climate denial convention.

Let’s break it down. Militaries guzzle fossil fuels like frat boys at a tailgate party. The global military-industrial complex has the fourth-highest carbon footprint, right behind the US, China, and India. If the US military alone were a country, it would be one of the biggest polluters on Earth. Jets burn through obscene amounts of fuel, tanks chug diesel like it’s happy hour, and warships guzzle enough energy to power small nations. That’s before we even get to the environmental catastrophe of bombs reducing entire cities to rubble—because, surprise! Destroyed buildings don’t magically turn into biodegradable confetti.

But sure, let’s vaccinate the cows. That’ll fix it.

This is just one example from the never-ending circus of contradictions we live in. I could go on, but at some point, laughter is the only sane response. Not because these things aren’t serious—quite the opposite. But because comedy has always been a vehicle for truth. It’s the sharpest scalpel we have to cut through the bullshit, to expose hypocrisy, to say the things that make the powerful squirm.

Laughter reminds us that we still see what’s really happening, no matter how much spin they put on it. And sometimes, when faced with a world this absurd, the only thing left to do is laugh—loudly, unapologetically—right in its face.