Greenpoint Comedy Club Set to Open This Spring

While we still can, let’s have a comedy skit about our sad Fearless Leader, Donald Trump, looking at his sharpie-stained map, mistaking Greenpoint for Greenland, and invading us with his Gestapo I.C.E. storm troopers. Today Greenpoint, tomorrow the world! To paraphrase the theme song from “The Produces”: it’s Springtime for Donald and tyranny, Goose steps the new step today, Bombs falling from the skies again, Trumpland is on the rise again. Seriously however, as Americans like Renee Good are executed on our city streets, perhaps Lutherans Pastor Martin Niemöller – condemned to a concentration camp for speaking up against the evils that he likewise saw around him in 1930’s Germany – said it best: “First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a communist; Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist; Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew; The they came for me—and there was no one left to speak out for me.” Poet Dylan Thomas said “Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” A few decades later Joni Mitchel sang: “Don’t it always seem to go That you don’t know what you’ve got Till it’s gone.” Don’t let our freedoms be lost and gone……

I look forward to having many laughs