The New Republic reveals that the comedy industry has a serious alt-right problem

Brett T. | 9:05 PM on February 09, 2021

The author of this piece for The New Republic, Seth Simons, has locked down his Twitter account, but we can still see that he writes a newsletter about labor, inequality, and extremism in the comedy industry. “I’ve spent the last five years writing about the comedy industry, the last three or so covering inequality and extremism within it,” he shares. We thought that the comedy industry’s biggest problem was that no one’s funny anymore, but it turns out the big problem is that the “safe space” allowed comedians has allowed the alt-right to use comedy as a recruiting tool.

The recent comedy boom is partly an era of walled-off subcultures that could transform into real, violent political factions. https://t.co/Kr4aKh10AN

— The New Republic (@newrepublic) February 9, 2021

It’s a very long piece, but to summarize, a guy who goes by ToxicCisWhiteMaleFat is bad, as are Gavin McInnes, Anthony Cumia, and the Legion of Skanks.

https://t.co/ezrfIS4E7C

— Anthony Jeselnik (@anthonyjeselnik) February 9, 2021

All I'm getting out of this is Seth got super irritated at some blogger & now the world must change.

— ??ℙ (@TipOfTheTefft) February 9, 2021

Holy shit, where are these alt-right comics of which he speaks? I’m in the Florida comedy world & practically all I see are ones participating in groupthink…parroting the narrative provided to the masses. Obviously there’s working comics who aren’t this way, but not very many.

— ImNotRightNetwork (@fpatrickwelsh) February 10, 2021

“Opie’s legacy” lol

— wade (@7dub7) February 9, 2021

I hope this is a joke. It’s a joke right? TELL ME ITS A JOKE.

— Jim Stancil (@StancilJim) February 10, 2021

No, it has a big unfunny culture warrior problem. Comedy fans will vote with their wallets and back the guys and girls with big enough balls to ignore the woke bullshit.

— (!) ???? ??????? ?? ???????? (@robvsnature) February 9, 2021

"I've spent the last five years writing about comedy" ???
*Proceeds with another massive article having nothing to do with comedy*

— Julian Rogers (@jrogers849) February 10, 2021

this article has absolutely nothing to do with comics or comedy. just another bizarre screed by some half sentient critter with a car note due. what a waste.

— *Like a Saints vision of beatitude. (@punkygriffon) February 9, 2021