| Leo Reich, the star of a new HBO standup special, offers wicked indictments alongside “a brutal character assassination of myself.”  Photograph by Alia Romagnoli for The New Yorker Many of the portrayals of Generation Z, the demographic cohort born between 1997 and 2012, come from actors, writers, and performers who are older—millennials trying to make sense of their little brothers and sisters. But the twenty-five-year-old British comedian Leo Reich, who incorporates music and acting into his standup special “Literally Who Cares?!,” is the real thing, even if he knocks a few years off his age for his onstage character. As Rebecca Mead writes in an absorbing new profile, Reich’s comedy evokes his generation’s combination of dread and ambivalence, and “manages to skewer both the panicked self-absorption of the young while also offering an unsparing survey of the social, political, cultural, technological, environmental, and epidemiological conditions in which they have had the misfortune to come of age.” It turns out there is plenty of grim humor in recognizing that the world you’ve been given is pretty lousy but that maybe you deserve it. Support The New Yorker’s award-winning journalism. Subscribe today » | 
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