RTF Colloquium Speaker: Nick Marx

Nick Marx is Professor of film and media studies and founding co-director of The Center for Democracy, Art, & Popular Culture at Colorado State University. He specializes in media studies, media industries, digital media, and American politics and culture. He is author or co-editor of several books, including Sketch Comedy: Identity, Reflexivity, and American Television, The Comedy Studies Reader, and Saturday Night Live and American TV. His peer-reviewed research has appeared in The Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Communication, Culture & Critique, Television and New Media, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, and in the anthologies The Oxford Handbook of Screen Comedy, From Networks to Netflix  and How to Watch Television.

Nick's most recent book is That's Not Funny: How the Right Makes Comedy Work For Them, which analyzes the cultural influence and economic clout of libertarian and conservative comedians like Joe Rogan, Greg Gutfeld, Theo Von, and Tim Allen. You can read an excerpt of the book at New York magazine. His current book project, Are Men OK? Masculinity and Millennial Comedy, examines performers like Tim Robinson, Nathan Fielder, Danny McBride, and The Lonely Island.

Nick is on sabbatical for the fall 2026 semester as a research fellow at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, working with the collection of Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels.

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