That's not funny : how the right makes comedy work for them /

Why do conservatives hate comedy? Why is there no right-wing Jon Stewart? These sorts of questions launch a million tweets, a thousand op-eds 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 h...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Sienkiewicz, Matt (Author), Marx, Nick (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2022].
Subjects:	Comedy > Political aspects > United States. Right-wing extremists > United States. Political satire, American > United States. Political culture > United States.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : right-wing comedy
Fox news and mainstream right-wing comedy
Making comedy great again : paleocomedy
Religio-rational satire : owning the libs one faulty syllogism at a time
The legions of libertarian podcasters
Trolling the depths of the right-wing comedy complex
Conclusion : performing right and left.