Letters: Is Political Comedy Dead?
Readers respond to Andrew Ferguson’s argument that the White House Correspondents’ Dinner represents a kind of joke telling whose moment has passed.
A Republic Too Fractured to Be Funny
The White House Correspondents’ Dinner suggests that stand-up joke telling is an art form whose moment has passed, Andrew Ferguson argued this week.
American stand-up is thriving, evolving, fresh, and still quite funny—just not on late-night shows. Most late-night shows—Trevor Noah’s, John Oliver’s, Samantha Bee’s, Stephen Colbert’s—are no longer primarily about comedy. Rather, they are
