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Yellow Dot Studios’ Staci Roberts-Steele Believes Comedy Can Save Our Planet

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Jenelle Riley Deputy Awards and Features Editor This article first appeared as part of Jenelle Riley’s Acting Up newsletter – to subscribe for early content and weekly updates on all things acting, visit the Acting Up signup page.

Yellow Dot Studios wants to save the Earth — and entertain you along the way. Oscar winner Adam McKay has launched the non-profit studio with the intent of creating videos and other materials that will raise awareness of climate change and other issues, often told with comedy.

It’s a high-wire act McKay has become adept at, having previously tackled material like the 2007-08 financial crisis (“The Big Short”), politics (“Vice”) and climate change (“Don’t Look Up”).

Just last week, Yellow Dot debuted “Commercial for Big Money,” a 2-minute “advertisement” that begins with a whimsical, Norman Rockwell-inspired image of a paperboy as an authoritative voiceover begins laying out how corporate greed is destroying the planet.

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