*Interview conducted in November, 2024.*

Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I enjoy some conservative-leaning comedy, especially when it’s framed as dry, relatable humor. Dry Bar Comedy is a good example—clean, family-friendly, with traditional values. Many of those comedians are skilled, funny storytellers. 

Rick Rosner: You’ve got Jeff Foxworthy with his “You might be a redneck” bits—funny and relatable. 

Jacobsen: Tim Allen, Jeff Allen, and Larry the Cable Guy are others. 

Rosner: There’s even a comedy roundup channel on SiriusXM that caters to more rural, conservative audiences, and it’s quality stuff.

Jacobsen: Your humor is a bit edgier, leans a little more PG-13 or higher.

Rosner: I get bored with the clean stuff after a while. SiriusXM has about six or seven comedy channels, so you can pick your level of “blueness.” There’s a channel called “Pure Comedy,” where you’ll never hear a bad word or controversial topics. On the other end is “Raw Comedy,” which features content more akin to the shock value of Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint—a novel that stunned America in the 1960s by exploring taboo areas of a teenage boy’s life.

“Raw Comedy,” it’s more unfiltered and covers topics that mainstream comedy often avoids. I was thinking how even Philip Roth, the master of shocking content, would be taken aback by some of the routines on raw comedy today. No area of life is safe from comedic analysis now, which is quite a shift from the more restrained world of network TV in the sixties.

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Rick Rosner, American Comedy Writer, www.rickrosner.org

Scott Douglas Jacobsen, Independent Journalist, www.in-sightpublishing.com

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