Brexit, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Single Market

Abstract

This chapter engages with the curious case of the dog that did not bark in comic resistances to Brexit. Strangely, for a genre that has so closely associated itself with themes of resistance, British comedy was remarkably aligned with the goal of remaining in Europe, indeed, this uniformity evoked consideration in some quarters as to whether ‘liberal comedians’ were now a fundamental part of the global capitalist establishment.