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Hi, I'm Peter Coffin! Thank you for visiting this page. If I could have a moment of your time, I'd love to explain what I do and why I need your support:

This is what I make:

• satirical sketch comedy and music: youtube.com/PeterCoffin
• in depth essays about things I care about: medium.com/@PeterCoffin

Why would you fund my channel and what I do?  You might remember me from when YouTube was in its infancy. A lot of people actually found me funny, but looking back, I was a problematic individual. Not the worst but most certainly not the best. What I'm saying is from time to time, I contributed punching-down comedy and in my present state, when I see it, I cringe. I care a great deal about using humor to talk about who we are as people and where we are as a society.

My adult life has been spent unlearning the stereotypical Midwestern conservative upbringing I had. Though I would never have considered myself a conservative, people raised in that environment have a lot to shake off. As one spends more time learning about what causes societal injustice of all kinds, one realizes the conventions responsible have been around for ages. I've always wanted to make satire, but I didn't fully understand what it was until later in life. Satire is the tool of the person who wants people to laugh as they become more aware of the world around them.

I make comedy for people who do not want to laugh just because people are trans, brown, fat, female, disabled, depressed, or any other state that laughing at only discourages solving problems. If I come off as a very serious person here, it's because I am. I take comedy extremely seriously, because I revere it as an artform. I believe it's meant to be critiqued as an artform  (meaning sincerely, and not only by critics but comedians themselves) and I believe that, like any other form of expression, has the ability to influence and set examples. I have not always been this way, and I will always continue working to be better - working on myself and my craft.

Laughter has kept me alive more than a few times, and it is through humor I have learned how to better indulge the empathetic impulses I am lucky enough to have. What you are supporting is a quest to bring that to other people. Humor as a means to actually understand people better rather than to "keep them in their place."

My comedy channel is 100% me. It's my baby (figuratively... I also have a real baby which is literally my baby). I write everything. I shoot it either with a tripod or my brother. I do all the editing. All the metadata, SEO, promotion, etc. It's me doing it, not a company. I also want to do everything I can to make a better life for my wife and child. They're my entire world and I love them more than anything else.

If you believe in me and like what I make, please donate $1 a month. Your contributions make it possible to continue doing this and I sincerely cannot thank you enough.