{"id":211264,"date":"2026-05-21T03:36:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T03:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/munya-chawawa-on-making-jokes-as-the-world-collapses-today-in-focus-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T03:36:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T03:36:05","slug":"munya-chawawa-on-making-jokes-as-the-world-collapses-today-in-focus-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/munya-chawawa-on-making-jokes-as-the-world-collapses-today-in-focus-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Munya Chawawa on making jokes as the world collapses | Today in Focus – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

The comedian\u00a0Munya Chawawa\u00a0on satire in the age of social media and what Donald Trump has in common with wrestlers<\/strong><\/p>\n

Even if you don\u2019t know\u00a0Munya Chawawa\u2019s name, you will almost certainly have seen one of his skits. He\u2019s the guy on your feeds who\u2019ll take a nostalgic chart-banger and turn it into a political parody. He first blew up in the Covid pandemic, when he mocked the health secretary for his affair, the prime minister for rule-breaking, and the sheer absurdity of living through lockdown.<\/p>\n

Since then he\u2019s racked up more than a billion views, appeared on Celebrity Bake Off and Taskmaster and made documentaries on Kim Jong-un and Robert Mugabe, all the while putting a modern twist on the hoary tradition of political satire.<\/p>\n

But as the news moves faster and grows darker, he tells\u00a0Nosheen Iqbal\u00a0how he finds jokes in the growing political chaos.<\/p>\n

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The comedian\u00a0Munya Chawawa\u00a0on satire in the age of social media and what Donald Trump has in common with wrestlers Even if you don\u2019t know\u00a0Munya Chawawa\u2019s name, you will almost certainly have seen one of his skits. He\u2019s the guy on your feeds who\u2019ll take a nostalgic chart-banger and turn it into a political parody. He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-211264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}