Can Conservatives Actually Do Comedy? (And What Do They Find Funny, Anyway?)

Frank Rich: “It’s an article of faith on the right that conservative comedians, like conservative entertainment-industry workers in general, are either blacklisted by Hollywood’s liberal mafia or are in daily danger of being so, thus giving the left a near monopoly on comedy as practiced in the vast cultural swing district of American television. … Still, the hysteria of the anti-Colbert claque made me look at the right’s case again.”