Paul Waldman writes about the lack of great Conservative novelists and humorists and I think he's on to something. I don't necessarily buy the explanations of why artists are more prone to Liberalism but I do think it's true. And I can't get near this topic without hauling out my old line about how doing comedy from a right-wing viewpoint would be like trying to write a Marx Brothers movie and make Margaret Dumont the funny one.
But yeah…there's a big difference between trying to create comedy from a Conservative perch and having folks who already have a Conservative worldview try to create comedy. I also don't think a right-wing comic these days would please his target audience if he slammed his own side as often as guys like Maher and Stewart skewer theirs.