Jay Leno had a easy philosphy that served him nicely for 22 years of late-night supremacy.
Write joke. Inform joke. Get test.
What might be simpler? Ask at this time’s late-night hosts. They deserted that precept in 2016 and have turn out to be extra obsessed ever since.
Why? Orange. Man. Dangerous. And a few are keen to face suspensions, or worse, to guard their political opinions.
Now, we’re beginning to see what lurks behind the propaganda, and it reeks of unchecked conceitedness.
First, Stephen Colbert opened as much as GQ Journal about his work, sharing the perform he sees behind “The Late Present.” It’s not comedy, leisure or different elemental causes.
It’s educating low-information viewers on the newest headlines.
Effectively, we’re like your pal who on the finish of the day paid consideration to what occurred at this time greater than you probably did [emphasis added]. After which we curate that again to you on the finish of the day. Nevertheless it’s actually extra about how we really feel about—or I, as the one that is the automobile for that—how we felt about at this time. All these issues that may’ve made you confused, offended, or anxious or glad or stunned or one thing like that. I share these emotions with the viewers they usually snicker or they don’t snicker. And there’s a way of group there.
Sure, “The Late Present” trots out dancing vaccines in order that viewers can be super-informed on the newest pandemic protocols. And let’s not neglect present after present getting us in control on the Russian Collusion hoax.
Colbert’s conceitedness appears quaint in comparison with Mrs. Jimmy Kimmel.
Molly McNearney, govt producer and co-head author of “Jimmy Kimmel Stay!” overshared on the “We Can Do Laborious Issues” podcast about her hubbie’s program.
McNearney claimed she as soon as was a die-hard GOP voter earlier than shifting to California and assembly ” folks from totally different backgrounds.” Now, she sees right-leaning Trump supporters as “being intentionally misinformed.”
You imply some assume MAGA killed Charlie Kirk, and others declare a dementia-addled president was completely superb at a 2024 movie star fundraiser?
No, not THAT deliberate misinformation. Another type, apparently.
“Yeah, [Trump voters are] intentionally being misinformed on daily basis, they usually consider it, however it hurts me a lot due to the private relationship I now have the place my husband is on the market preventing this man. And to me, them voting for Trump is them not voting for my husband and me and our household, and I sadly have sort of misplaced relationships with folks in my household due to it.”
Smug. Elitist. Woefully misinformed.
What’s lacking? Comedy. Humor. Laughs. Escapism. Leisure.
That’s the fashionable late-night panorama, alas. It’s no surprise “The Late Present” will go the way in which of the pager and 8-track tape come Could 2026. And, almost definitely, Kimmel and co. will be part of them in the end.
Right here’s betting it’s “sooner.”