talk radio

Comedians have been trending rightward since right-wing talk radio and Andrew Dice Clay ascended contemporaneously in the late ‘80s and ‘90s.

There were no insult comics or crude talk radio hosts or ancient wrestling stars ripping off their shirts.

His patter — fast, outraged, informed and tinged with well-timed jokes — was a master class in old-school talk radio.

It has flourished on talk radio, on Fox News and on websites like Newsmax and Breitbart, which for a time featured a “Black Crime” menu option and regularly traffics in stories about “illegals,” the “border crisis” and “migrant crime.”

Born in Cleveland in 1935, Donahue began his media career in the late 1950s in talk radio and television, launching his eponymous talk show in 1967.