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How ‘Liberal’ Late-Night Talk Shows Became a Comedy Sinkhole
- Thread starter BossAttack
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Seth is my favorite of all of them.
I try to never miss his Closer Looks and a lot of his other bits.
Amber Ruffin is a national treasure.
I try to never miss his Closer Looks and a lot of his other bits.
Amber Ruffin is a national treasure.
As an European I've been noticing that US Late Night talk shows are not as funny as they used to be, and that the dip in quality started before the rise of Trumpism. My totally ignorant guess is that the writers are not as good as they used to be. Maybe good comedy writers are moving to different forms of media?
Of all the hosts she definitely is the one who holds back the least. It's why I like her.
I enjoy Seth occasionally, but his real gift was introducing us to Amber.
I'm glad to see this article. I think we've all known something's gotten powerfully dull about liberal comedy talk shows in the last couple years. It's been hard to articulate without sounding like you've gone conservative, but I think many of us feel it, including those on the left.
I was an avid watcher of Jon Stewart and the Colbert Report in those Bush years and that show mattered back then. It was almost counter culture and spoke wicked truth to power. But now they all seem incredibly hack. Unfunny, milquetoast jokes against the same targets in a way that makes them look lame and irrelevant. You'd think the age of Trump would make them shine... but I think they've become another victim of Trump.
I was an avid watcher of Jon Stewart and the Colbert Report in those Bush years and that show mattered back then. It was almost counter culture and spoke wicked truth to power. But now they all seem incredibly hack. Unfunny, milquetoast jokes against the same targets in a way that makes them look lame and irrelevant. You'd think the age of Trump would make them shine... but I think they've become another victim of Trump.
I only watched to hear how he made "Redactions" (a word with one less syllable than "Satisfaction") work with the song. I heard him sing the first line: "I can't take more. More redactions." Then I closed it.
Absolutely horrible.
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It is Jimmy Fallon, the new Leno of the Talk Show circuit. Bleh.
I haven't been keeping up with these sorts of things since Stewart retired and Colbert switched professions, but I've been seeing a Sam Bee promo lampooning the fast food white house dinner thing during the NBA playoffs a lot and holy shit I had no idea it was that bad.
It came off like it was written by any random #resist Twitter account. The fruit was hanging so low, they may as well have dug it out of the ground. It was amazing that anybody who gets paid for anything saw that promo and thought "yeah, that'll work."
Also, that shit at the end of the article about the employed writers making fun of those looking for work is infuriating. These idiots are responding to this political moment by repurposing wine mom tweets as "jokes" and they've got the nerve to have a sense of superiority about it?
It came off like it was written by any random #resist Twitter account. The fruit was hanging so low, they may as well have dug it out of the ground. It was amazing that anybody who gets paid for anything saw that promo and thought "yeah, that'll work."
Also, that shit at the end of the article about the employed writers making fun of those looking for work is infuriating. These idiots are responding to this political moment by repurposing wine mom tweets as "jokes" and they've got the nerve to have a sense of superiority about it?
Stewart really educated his viewers. I remember being more informed than my peers and teachers in high schools by watching the Daily Show. It wasn't just slam dunk comedy for the sake of it. He actually taught about concepts through articulate analogies. It was really something special.
Damn, I didn't need another reminder of how much I missed Craig Ferguson, but there it is... Time to rewatch every clip I can find all night on youtube now.
I like the characterisation of people who find this shit painfully unfunny as Trump supporters and secret conservatives/"""centrists/moderates""" who wish to skew the conversation in Trump's favour.
Like no, these shows are insufferable.
Like no, these shows are insufferable.