From Titania McGrath to a Brexit party standup: is rightwing comedy on the rise? by Brian Logan

This year's Edinburgh fringe was full of wokeness jokes from liberal standups as well as a host of conservative comedians who punch down Has there been a rise in rightwing comedy? Or just more acts pinning their colours to that mast? A common claim " flogged to death by the conservative commentariat " is that comedy is dominated by a "liberal elite". That was always a tenuous premise: beyond the late Jeremy Hardy, th…

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