Joe Kwaczala Has Put His Dance Moves Where His Politics Are

Thanks to the coronavirus, comedians are now trapped at home like the rest of us, so we decided that while we’re all self-quarantining, we’d do something a little different from our usual “Follow Friday” column. Instead of interviewing up-and-coming comedians we love on Twitter, we’re going live on Instagram every week to check in on some of our favorite people in comedy and get a firsthand look into how they’re handling the pandemic. So welcome to our new version of the column, now titled “Follow (From a Safe Distance) Friday.”

This week, I donned a very stylish and seasonally appropriate outfit for a virtual chat with Joe Kwaczala (Onion News Network, ClickHole, uploading 31 videos to Twitter in one day) about how he’s doing during the ongoing global pandemic. He shared some wonderful advice on creating content at a time like this, gave us the behind-the-scenes deets on choreographing his most popular Twitter video, and told us his opinions on the latest update in the COVID-19 saga … you know, the big one. He also got introspective about how we should handle the nice wealthy people when it comes time to eat the rich: “How do we deal with the grateful ones? I feel like that’s the kind of question we need to explore and answer.”

You can find Joe on Twitter at @joekjoek and on Instagram at @joekwa.