Julie Webber is professor of politics and government at Illinois State University.

• Chapter One: All They Need is Lulz: Racist trolls, unlaughter, and Leslie JonesViveca GreeneChapter Two: Brexit Irony, Caricature and NeoliberalismSimon WeaverChapter Three: What’s Wrong with Slactivism? Confronting the Neoliberal Assault on MillennialsSophia A. McClennenChapter Four: Political Humour in the face of Neoliberal Authoritarianism in “New” TurkeySecil DagtasChapter Five: A Silly Citizenship Take on Infotainment Satire: The Medium of Televisual Political Satire as Ludic SurveillanceDavid Grondin and Marc-Olivier CastagnerChapter Six: The Political Economy of Comedy in Late-Night ShowsDon J. Waisanen,Chapter Seven: British Comedy and the Politics of Resistance: The Liminality of Right Wing ComedyJames BrassettChapter Eight: I Want to Party with You, Cowboy: Stephen Colbert and the Aesthetic Logic of “Truthiness” After Campaign 2016Aaron McKain and Thomas LawsonChapter Nine: From Awkward To Dope: Black Women Comics in the Alternative Comedy SceneJessyka FinleyChapter Ten: Savage New Media: Discursive Campaigns For/Against Political CorrectnessRebecca KreftingChapter Eleven: “An Actual Nightmare- but Pretty Good TV”: Comedy/Horror in The Trump EraDiane RubensteinConclusion: You’re Fired!Julie Webber

Don’t pick up The Joke is on Us: Political Comedy in (Late) Neoliberal Times edited by Julie Webber if what you’re looking for is a funny-haha book. The contributors are not stand-up comedians, nor are they trying to tell jokes. If, instead, you’re looking for serious examinations about how satire, irony, and humor—often weapons of the weak deployed against authoritarians--have been coopted and diffused by neoliberal forces and regimes (corporate capitalism, big data surveillance systems, alt-right conspirators, and racist truthers), then this is the book for you. Don’t expect Saturday Night Live or the Comedy Channel to save us, they warn.

Julie Webber is professor of politics and government at Illinois State University.

• Chapter One: All They Need is Lulz: Racist trolls, unlaughter, and Leslie JonesViveca GreeneChapter Two: Brexit Irony, Caricature and NeoliberalismSimon WeaverChapter Three: What’s Wrong with Slactivism? Confronting the Neoliberal Assault on MillennialsSophia A. McClennenChapter Four: Political Humour in the face of Neoliberal Authoritarianism in “New” TurkeySecil DagtasChapter Five: A Silly Citizenship Take on Infotainment Satire: The Medium of Televisual Political Satire as Ludic SurveillanceDavid Grondin and Marc-Olivier CastagnerChapter Six: The Political Economy of Comedy in Late-Night ShowsDon J. Waisanen,Chapter Seven: British Comedy and the Politics of Resistance: The Liminality of Right Wing ComedyJames BrassettChapter Eight: I Want to Party with You, Cowboy: Stephen Colbert and the Aesthetic Logic of “Truthiness” After Campaign 2016Aaron McKain and Thomas LawsonChapter Nine: From Awkward To Dope: Black Women Comics in the Alternative Comedy SceneJessyka FinleyChapter Ten: Savage New Media: Discursive Campaigns For/Against Political CorrectnessRebecca KreftingChapter Eleven: “An Actual Nightmare- but Pretty Good TV”: Comedy/Horror in The Trump EraDiane RubensteinConclusion: You’re Fired!Julie Webber

Don’t pick up The Joke is on Us: Political Comedy in (Late) Neoliberal Times edited by Julie Webber if what you’re looking for is a funny-haha book. The contributors are not stand-up comedians, nor are they trying to tell jokes. If, instead, you’re looking for serious examinations about how satire, irony, and humor—often weapons of the weak deployed against authoritarians--have been coopted and diffused by neoliberal forces and regimes (corporate capitalism, big data surveillance systems, alt-right conspirators, and racist truthers), then this is the book for you. Don’t expect Saturday Night Live or the Comedy Channel to save us, they warn.

Julie Webber is professor of politics and government at Illinois State University.

• Chapter One: All They Need is Lulz: Racist trolls, unlaughter, and Leslie JonesViveca GreeneChapter Two: Brexit Irony, Caricature and NeoliberalismSimon WeaverChapter Three: What’s Wrong with Slactivism? Confronting the Neoliberal Assault on MillennialsSophia A. McClennenChapter Four: Political Humour in the face of Neoliberal Authoritarianism in “New” TurkeySecil DagtasChapter Five: A Silly Citizenship Take on Infotainment Satire: The Medium of Televisual Political Satire as Ludic SurveillanceDavid Grondin and Marc-Olivier CastagnerChapter Six: The Political Economy of Comedy in Late-Night ShowsDon J. Waisanen,Chapter Seven: British Comedy and the Politics of Resistance: The Liminality of Right Wing ComedyJames BrassettChapter Eight: I Want to Party with You, Cowboy: Stephen Colbert and the Aesthetic Logic of “Truthiness” After Campaign 2016Aaron McKain and Thomas LawsonChapter Nine: From Awkward To Dope: Black Women Comics in the Alternative Comedy SceneJessyka FinleyChapter Ten: Savage New Media: Discursive Campaigns For/Against Political CorrectnessRebecca KreftingChapter Eleven: “An Actual Nightmare- but Pretty Good TV”: Comedy/Horror in The Trump EraDiane RubensteinConclusion: You’re Fired!Julie Webber

Don’t pick up The Joke is on Us: Political Comedy in (Late) Neoliberal Times edited by Julie Webber if what you’re looking for is a funny-haha book. The contributors are not stand-up comedians, nor are they trying to tell jokes. If, instead, you’re looking for serious examinations about how satire, irony, and humor—often weapons of the weak deployed against authoritarians--have been coopted and diffused by neoliberal forces and regimes (corporate capitalism, big data surveillance systems, alt-right conspirators, and racist truthers), then this is the book for you. Don’t expect Saturday Night Live or the Comedy Channel to save us, they warn.