Ingrid Oliver: The Comedian Who Accidentally Became the UN Secretary-General of Anxiety
MUNICH—Somewhere between the cease-fire talks in Geneva and the crypto-currency meltdown in Singapore, a woman named Ingrid Oliver walked into a Bavarian television studio, did a ten-minute sketch about bureaucratic anxiety, and inadvertently became a global Rorschach test for late-capitalist dread. To the BBC she’s “that comedian with the glasses.” To German state broadcaster BR…