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Another one of the casualties of the left’s scorched earth war on Donald J. Trump has been late-night television which has devolved into an unfunny propaganda delivery system of lewd DNC talking points about the now-president-elect.
Gone are the golden days when hosts like Johnny Carson, David Letterman, and Jay Leno avoided the relentlessly partisan approach of modern hosts who may as well be ventriloquist dummies for Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, and Barack Obama and who have alienated much of their potential audience with their political hackery.
According to a resurfaced study originally published in late October by media watchdog the Media Research Center, nearly ALL of Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Myers, and The Daily Show’s jokes in the runup to last month’s election were targeted at Trump, a sad testament to the decline of what was long an American institution.
98% of the jokes told by Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, and Saturday Night Live leading up to the election were all about President Donald Trump.
1,428 of the 1,463 political jokes targeted Trump, according to Media Research Center.
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— Breanna Morello (@BreannaMorello) December 27, 2024
For the period from September 3 through October 25, analysts for the MRC reviewed and assessed 136 episodes of the top late-night “comedy” shows and determined that of the 1,463 jokes about Trump and doomed Democrat candidate Kamala Harris, “1,428 of them were about Trump, and only 35 were about Harris. That’s a whopping 40:1 ratio or almost 98 percent to 2 percent,” according to the watchdog.
“In addition to the 1,428-35 Trump-Harris split, analysts also found that the comedians told 302 jokes about the vice presidential candidates. Of these, 236 were directed at J.D. Vance compared to 66 at Tim Walz. That equates to a 4:1 ratio with 78 percent aimed at Vance,” the MRC found. “Combined, that comes out to a 1,664-101 comparison with a 16:1 ratio targeting the GOP ticket 94 percent of the time.”
Before Harris was swapped out for Joe Biden after the CNN debate debacle, the jokes about the geriatric leader were softened to downplay his obvious senility.
“As we made clear on this show repeatedly, there’s no equivalency between a competent 81-year-old who occasionally shows signs of age and a demented 77-year-old criminal who says dead people rigged the election and thinks electric boat batteries will lead to shark attacks,” Myers said in June, four months after he gave the dementia-addled president a veritable tongue bath during a softball interview on his NBC show.
X users added their thoughts about the politicized environment on late night, which may as well be dubbed “hate night” TV now.
Does anyone watch the late shows anymore?
— Katherine R (@beachgalkar) December 27, 2024
They were never news but entertainment, which too many seem to have forgotten. I don’t think they lost credibility, but annoyed their audiences into turning away.
— MarcusTullius (@MarcusT86062424) December 27, 2024
And the joke was on Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, and Saturday Night Live after Trump defeated Kamala Harris in spectacular fashion.
— RK Gold (@RKGold) December 27, 2024
They forgot the lesson of Johnny Carson…be interesting more than topical. Work with big personalities and give the viewers something to enjoy rather than something to despise.
— Sebastian Ridley-Thomas (@SebastianMRT) December 27, 2024
In communist totalitarian countries, the first thing to go is comedy because ideologue zealots can’t stand critique and comedians like artists usually and unfortunately become de facto extensions of those in power.
I think that in the networks, late night comedy is dead,…— Alina B. Guerra (@alinainmiami) December 27, 2024
Pathetic and they wonder why nobody watches them anymore!
— S_Shibby (@S_Oshibby) December 27, 2024
Let’s go back to comedy that was funny, instead of mean! Johnny Carson, Jay Leno. I have not watched late night talk show since they left.
— Dale Hackney (@hackney_dale) December 27, 2024
I remember Jimmy Kimmel saying before the 2016 election that he’d rather lose half his audience than keep his politics to himself. So be it. I stopped watching him and all the rest of them. It’s a sad thing that they put their politics above their art/craft & employer. Selfish.
— Plein Crazy (@PleinCrazy) December 27, 2024
It accomplished making them totally irrelevant, not funny and crashed their ratings.
— Joseph Miller (@mill73194) December 27, 2024
Trump’s overwhelming win shows that the majority of Americans aren’t listening to Colbert, the two Jimmies, SNL and the rest of them. Late night faces an uncertain future now that its one-sidedness and politicized content have punched the genre’s ticket to irrelevancy.
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