Elliott's Reviews > That's Not Funny: How the Right Makes Comedy Work for Them

This book really didn’t have to be written. Right wing comedy is a repetition of the same two or three jokes. It “works” just like everything else in the right wing outrage machine: a talking head will highlight something as “owning the libs” and then their audience all marches in goose step convinced that some video, or buying and immediately destroying a Keurig will cause Berkeley students to seethe at their gender studies class the following day. That’s how Jason Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town” managed to peak at number 1 on the music charts for about a week until they collectively moved on to the next thing.