Welcome to 0, you have drawn The Fool. serious fun is an inquiry into the contemporary performance artist’s role in our crisis-driven society. What lessons does the jester have to teach us about coping in a hostile late-capitalocene world? Stand up comedy and story-telling offer an interactive performative container in which the director and performer use personal anecdotes to support a larger inquiry into states of failure, break-down, crisis, collapse, and confusion. Using the wisdom of clowns, comics, and performative mischief makers, serious fun allows us to make a parody of the precarious role of a contemporary-dance artist living in Berlin in 2024. When we live in a year that sounds like it’s from a science fiction novel, what can the performer learn from the digital and analog trends that drown us in constant media and advertising stimulus? Part art critique, part musical comedy, part contemporary dance performance, this solo is self-referential, episodic, and fast paced; it is a product of the attention economy. At the end we ask, is it possible to slow anything down?