In the book "That's Not Funny," authors Matt Sienkiewicz and Nick Marx challenge the notion that comedy has a liberal bias and argue that it is a mistake to overlook the emergence of right-wing comedy. They explore the concept of the "right-wing comedy complex," highlighting how conservatives have been strategically utilizing humor to build their political influence. The book addresses the reluctance of liberals to acknowledge conservative comedy and the growing presence of right-wing comedians in mainstream conservative media. Through interviews with conservative comedians and analysis of their work, the authors shed light on the cultural and political relevance of this form of comedy, emphasizing the need to pay attention to its impact. Watch the Majority Report live Monday–Friday at 12 p.m. EST on YouTube OR listen via daily podcast at http://www.Majority.FM https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm #SamSeder #EmmaVigeland #MajorityReport #politics #news #progressive #leftist #democrats #liberal SUPPORT the show by becoming a member: http://www.jointhemajorityreport.com/ Download TMR's FREE app: http://www.majorityapp.com TMR MERCH: http://www.shop.majorityreportradio.com CHECK OUT MORE from the MR crew: Matt Binder DOOMED https://www.youtube.com/MattBinder Brandon Sutton DISCOURSE https://www.patreon.com/ExpandTheDiscourse Emma Vigeland ESVN https://www.youtube.com/ESVNShow Matt Lech LEFT RECKONING https://www.youtube.com/LeftReckoning OTHER LINKS: Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/themajorityreport Facebook: http://facebook.com/MajorityReport Twitter: http://twitter.com/MajorityFM Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/majorityreport.fm/ And we are joined Now by Nick Marx, one of the authors of That's not funny how the Right makes comedy work for them. Nick thanks so much for being here today. Happy to be here. Thank you. So right-wing comedy should sound like an oxymoron I think to a good percentage of our audience right? But you know your book actually contends that we need to be taking it seriously as a phenomenon. And I think a lot of long-time viewers of this program or even casual viewers know we spend a lot of time mocking right-wing comedy. But it is you know I think our way of combating it and getting into the algorithm because it can be so pernicious. Do you know what inspired you to write about it and what inspired you to say hey let's take this seriously and acknowledge it really from a sociological perspective? So two things really the start of the Trump Administration really created a permission structure for more kind of informal let's call it forms of address public discourse and joking mean spirited joking to occur in formal political spaces. He wasn't necessarily the cause of it but maybe the most sort of the prominent face of a movement happening over the last five to ten years. And what we see happening at the same time is an opening in media Industries where nobody's really occupied this Lane economically. So there hadn't been an institution devoted to conservative comedy in the same way that liberals have long had institutions like Saturday Night Live and The Daily Show. So we see a couple of failed attempts to do this most notably Fox News's half-hour NewsHour in 2007. Yes, a very regrettable bad attempt to be The Daily Show. But they try and try and eventually succeed with a handful of the folks that we talk about in the book. At the same time, Liberals are kind of tunnel-visioned into thinking that we own comedy. We're the Party of Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and Sasha Baron Cohen. All these sorts of brilliant liberal comedians that we've had over the last two decades. And we kind of fall into this trap of thinking that comedy has a politically liberal orientation. And that anything that falls outside of our political goals must not be a comedy. It must be something else. So it's kind of a two-pronged thing where conservatives are rising in the comedy world at the same time Liberals are tunnel visioned on celebrating our own satirists. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA7uk77jiFE

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