Cody Dahler says viral videos make politics easier to understand

Comedian and podcaster Cody Dahler says his “thicky thicky dumb dumb” videos aim to make politics easier to understand, arguing that public debate is often made needlessly complex. He says a video explaining the capture of Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, drew a much larger audience and helped his online profile take off.

Dahler has more than two million followers and has written a book, *The State of This!*, based partly on questions from his audience. He says he was surprised by how inaccessible many books on British politics were, and wants to explain events in straightforward language; he also jokes that his shorts-wearing comic persona may leave him freezing over winter.