Conservative Comedy
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Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy · Todd McGowan · p.177
Ideology and Equality > The Comedy of Social Exclusion
Theoretical move: Conservative comedy constitutes social wholeness through the exclusion of a racialized "excess" (the coon figure), thereby obscuring the social order's constitutive incompleteness and allowing spectators to believe in a substantial, crack-free society — making racist comedy not a symptom of ignorance but a structural ideological mechanism.
the task of conservative comedy is one of constituting the wholeness by way of the exclusion. It draws attention to the excluded element and derives humor from its excesses.