1. Samantha Bee

Full Frontal With Samantha Bee is no stranger to doing impactful comedy, so is it really any surprise she tops the list here? Her first climate segment looked at the foul problem of our busted-ass water infrastructure and managed to describe combined sewage overflow in terms both helpful and funny. (At least as funny as shit backing up into people’s houses can be.) This instantly won over the hearts and minds of Earther.

But Bee’s segment further bestilled our hearts by linking it to climate change and the fact that heavy downpours are increasing. She also rightfully pointed out that “racism plays an unfortunate role in our sanitary system dysfunction,” highlighting the plight of Lowndes County, Alabama, and the sewage overflows that regularly occur in the predominantly Black community there. It’s a grave injustice, and Bee mentioning it, in the context of climate change, opening the segment with a NowThis clip of activist Catherine Flowers shows Bee and her team put in the work.

Hot Burn: “Even if we stopped clogging our sewage systems with rat kings of human grossness, our sewage system would still be in trouble because it wasn’t designed for our changing climate.”

Cringe line: “That’s led to catastrophic flooding and sewage overflows around the country. And not just in the liberal urban hell holes you’d expect, but also in the red states that God doesn’t hate.” (Even this line was pretty solid to be honest. The segment was just that good.)