Nick Marx, Matt Sienkiewicz's That's Not Funny: How the Right Makes Comedy Work for Them

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625112 to listen full audiobooks. Title: That's Not Funny: How the Right Makes Comedy Work for Them Author: Nick Marx, Matt Sienkiewicz Narrator: Keith Sellon-Wright Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 38 minutes Release date: December 13, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Comedy, Satire & Parody Publisher's Summary: A 2022 Best Comedy Book, Vulture '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 has a liberal bias. Matt Sienkiewicz and Nick Marx take listeners—particularly self-described liberals—on a tour of contemporary conservative comedy and the 'right-wing comedy complex.' In That's Not Funny, 'complex' takes on an important double meaning. On the one hand, liberals have developed a social-psychological complex—it feels difficult, even dangerous, to acknowledge that their political opposition can produce comedy. At the same time, the right has been slowly building up a comedy-industrial complex, utilizing the irony-laden media strategies of liberals such as Jon Stewart, Samantha Bee, and John Oliver to garner audiences and supporters. Right-wing comedy has been hiding in plain sight, finding its way into mainstream conservative media through figures ranging from Fox News's Greg Gutfeld to libertarian podcasters like Joe Rogan. That's Not Funny taps interviews with conservative comedians and observations of them in action to guide listeners through media history, text, and technique.