Stephen Colbert didn’t cry on-air over Donald Trump’s re-election not like one in every of his late-night friends.
“The Late Present” host may shed some tears after listening to his fellow progressives tear into him.
“The Final Chuckle’s” Matt Wilstein and co-host Andy Levy reviewed comedy’s impression on popular culture in 2024 on the most recent episode. The Every day Beast present explored Trump’s swing-state sweep and the way podcasts could have helped the true property mogul crush Vice President Kamala Harris.
The podcast, like The Every day Beast, leans to the Left. Exhausting.
What was shocking, although, was their tackle late-night tv. Colbert, particularly, took it on the chin.
Exhausting.
Levy talked about that he doesn’t watch late-night TV usually however he does whereas visiting his mom.
“I sit there, and I say to myself, and I hate that I’m saying this, however [Colbert] is simply not humorous anymore,” Levy stated whereas Wilstein echoed the sentiment with a quiet, “Yeah.”
Many on the Proper have mocked Colbert for his one-sided monologues in recent times. He’s additionally embraced “clapter,” jokes that share the “accepted” political leanings however aren’t significantly humorous.
Levy and Wilstein agreed, however by a unique ideological lens.
“I don’t know what occurred to him, as a result of he really was a comedy genius,” stated Levy, citing “The Colbert Report” as proof.
“He’s doing the lowest-hanging, hashtag-resistance humor. It’s really painful for me to look at to the purpose the place I’ve stated to my Mother, ‘can we please not watch Colbert?’ I’ve reached some extent the place I’d moderately watch Jimmy Fallon, and that’s a wild factor to be saying,” Levy stated.
The duo agreed that Jimmy Kimmel gives higher late-night liberalism, however they weren’t precisely offered on the “Jimmy Kimmel Dwell!” host, both.
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The pair tried to chop Colbert some slack.
“He’s backed off a little bit bit from the political stuff … he’s looking for what his position can be.” Wilstein stated. “Colbert nonetheless has his moments each on occasion, however I don’t know what he’s doing precisely.”
“It’s a little bit bit baffling to see what’s occurring to him as a comic and as a voice who was so very important and now could be making jokes that really feel interchangeable with Jimmy Fallon’s delicate monologue jokes,” Wilstein continued.
Levy dug in deeper, regardless of praising Colbert’s interview chops.
“That is the trail he and the producers of ‘The Late Present’ have chosen for his monologue-type stuff,” Levy stated. “I really feel like Alex in ‘A Clockwork Orange’ being pressured to look at it. It makes me unhappy, too, as a result of … he was top-of-the-line issues in comedy on TV for a really very long time.”
Wilstein prompt Jon Stewart’s 2024 return to “The Every day Present” may need lit a artistic fireplace beneath Colbert.
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