How the heck is the right-wing posse upending the entire comedy universe?
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Diversity in Late-Night Comedy: Confronting the tough reality of a changing market
How does the push for more diversity in late-night comedy square with a declining viewership?
Bill Meets Greg: A Rare Moment of Civility in a Brutal Culture War.
Bill Maher and Greg Gutfeld meet and find common ground amid the ongoing culture war. Will this pattern of civil discourse hold?
Confronting Trump and Nixon: Comedy’s Changing Perspectives
Why did the comedy community treat Trump and Nixon differently even though both men were so similar in the way that they were quite divisive and controversial presidents?
Spy Magazine and Today’s Brutal Political Satire: An Origin Story?
A remarkable feature of today’s political satire is what appears to be its “snark and insult” character. By most accounts, it wasn’t always this rough and mean. Perhaps the most persuasive theory on how we started down this brutal path is that the now defunct Spy magazine from the 1980s and 1990s put us on…