“Anyone who believes in free markets, as American conservatives profess to, should understand that few markets are as ruthless as show business. It is the customers, not some shadowy conspiratorial gatekeepers, who give comedians the hook—or catapult them into the capitalist nirvana of the one percent.”
-Frank Rich, in an excellent piece for The New York Times called “Can Conservatives Be Funny?,” which dives deep into the current state of conservative comedians and asks why there aren’t more of them and why they aren’t more successful.
