Why Comedy Leans Left (But Doesn't Have To)
The Political Orphanage
Andrew Heaton
4.9 • 999 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2022
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
Comedians Jeff Maurer and Andrew Young discuss orthodoxy and anti-authoritarianism in comedy, and media scholar Matt Sienkiewicz discusses his new book "That's Not Funny: How the Right Makes Comedy Work for Them"
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the political orphanage in the raging tempest of American politics, we are in the eye of the storm. |
| 0:17.0 | Blowing bubbles. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm your host Andrew Hee. |
| 0:21.0 | And we're going to pose a deceptively simple question on today's program. |
| 0:26.5 | What is conservative human? |
| 0:29.5 | Many would purport that that's a contradiction in terms, although I don't think so. But what is it? |
| 0:35.0 | Or rather, if it's hard to spot in the wild, what would it look like? |
| 0:39.3 | How does it differ from progressive humor? Or is humor basically the same with minor differences in flavor? |
| 0:45.6 | Why aren't there a more conservative comedians running around? |
| 0:48.1 | Are they not as funny or is there a systemic reason to account for their absence? |
| 0:52.3 | And we're going to tackle it from a bunch of |
| 0:53.7 | different angles. On the first half of the show, comedians Andrew Young and Jeff |
| 0:58.0 | Maurer come on. We will discuss South Park, King of the Hill, Rick and |
| 1:01.8 | Mordy, in different ways to assess the humor spectrum |
| 1:05.2 | than left or right. |
| 1:06.8 | Then on the second half, Matt Sinkowitz joins to discuss his new book, Hot Off the Press's, |
| 1:11.7 | That's not funny how the right makes comedy work for them. |
| 1:15.0 | Enjoy. |
| 1:19.0 | Welcome back to the show, Andrew Young and Jeff Maurer. Andrew Young and |
| 1:24.2 | are the host of losers pretenders and scoundrels which I am |
| 1:28.0 | Which I am right which I host all alone right no help |
| 1:30.6 | Uh-huh that's right that is your very funny history show that I'm |
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