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Published · transcript-backedDave Barry: uncertainty
16 Aug 2017 Conversations with Tyler Dave Barry on Humor, Writing, and Life as a Florida Man
“A pro-Trump humorist — I don’t know if any exist — would be a lot more subversive than any of the nine billion .”
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- Dave Barry
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- 16 Aug 2017
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Do you think there’s room for a new right-wing kind of humor? Maybe not a kind of right wing that you like, but, say, now there’s alt-right — it’s at least perceived as new, it’s outrageous to many people. Is this the new direction of funny? Or is there something intrinsic about humor that it’s left wing, there’s a left-wing slant to what humor is? No, definitely not. Humor should be subversive, and it’s a lot more subversive to be right wing than left wing these days [laughs]. A pro-Trump humorist — I don’t know if any exist — would be a lot more subversive than any of the nine billion . . . Trump himself is the pro-Trump humorist.…
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