While liberal late-night comedians like Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert had risen steadily to become household names, their conservative counterparts had attracted curiously little academic attention.

There are even some great right-leaning professional comedians, especially of the conservative-libertarian bent. So it's a little puzzling that there's no conservative version of The Daily Show.

Conservative filmmakers at companies like the Daily Wire, which produced 2024's top-grossing documentary, have found success by courting audiences that feel overlooked by Hollywood.

Have you heard the one about the conservative comedian? Me neither. We're in something of a Golden Age of late-night TV, but the comedians and entertainers who host these programs all skew left.

The comedian says that he wanted to take his “loud, liberal, openly gay self straight into Red states” to get out of his comfort zone.

It feels like at least once a year, someone writes an article wondering what happened to the romantic comedy, and why we don’t make ’em like we used to. And usually, that article concludes ...