That's Not Funny: How the Right Makes Comedy Work for Them
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A rousing call for liberals and progressives to pay attention to the emergence of rightwing comedy and the political power of humor.
"Why do conservatives hate comedy? Why is there no rightwing Jon Stewart?" These sorts of questions launch a million tweets, a thousand opeds, and more than a few scholarly analyses. That's Not Funny argues that it is both an intellectual and politically strategic mistake to assume that comedy has a liberal bias. Matt Sienkie...
A rousing call for liberals and progressives to pay attention to the emergence of rightwing comedy and the political power of humor.
"Why do conservatives hate comedy? Why is there no rightwing Jon Stewart?" These sorts of questions launch a million tweets, a thousand opeds, and more than a few scholarly analyses. That's Not Funny argues that it is both an intellectual and politically strategic mistake to assume that comedy has a liberal bias. Matt Sienkie...


