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Maeve Higgins

Maeve Higgins
Maeve Higgins is a contributing writer for The New York Times and the host of the hit podcast Maeve in America: Immigration IRL. She is a comedian who has performed all over the world, including in her native Ireland, Edinburgh, Melbourne, and Erbil. Now based in New York, she cohosts Neil deGrasse Tyson’s StarTalk, both the podcast and the TV show on National Geographic, and has also appeared on Comedy Central’s Inside Amy Schumer and on WNYC’s 2 Dope Queens.


Maeve Higgins on the Toxic Power of the Political Euphemism

On the Origins of “Tree Hugger” and “Climate Change”
February 11, 2022  By Maeve Higgins
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Maeve Higgins on How to Write with Humor

“No topic is off-limits for comedy.”
January 28, 2022  By Maeve Higgins
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The Story We Don’t Talk About:
On Irishness, Immigration, and Race

"Being White Can Make a Whole Community Forget Who They Are and Where They Came From"
August 10, 2018  By Maeve Higgins
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