Cowardice of Late Night Hosts Becomes Painfully Clear: Watchdog Finds Majority of Political Jokes Hit Conservatives

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Cowardice of Late Night Hosts Becomes Painfully Clear: Watchdog Finds Majority of Political Jokes Hit Conservatives

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Late-night talk shows are a monotonous abyss of angry left-wing trolls who spew lame "jokes" that alienate half the nation.

According to a new study by the Media Research Center, a whopping 81 percent of political jokes told on major late-night talk shows in 2023 targeted conservatives.

"Throughout all of 2023, the late-night comedians told a total of 9,518 political jokes, and of these 7,729 or 81 percent were directed at someone or something on the right side of the political spectrum," the conservative media watchdog found.

MRC analyzed all six of the major daily late-night shows from Jan. 3 through Dec. 22:

• ABC’s "Jimmy Kimmel Live."

• CBS' "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert."

• CBS' "The Late, Late Show with James Corden" until its April cancellation.

• Comedy Central’s "The Daily Show."

• NBC's "Late Night with Seth Meyers."

• NBC’s "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon."

The most aggressively anti-conservative host was Kimmel.

"Jimmy Kimmel is the most mean-spirited and most partisan of the analyzed sextet, with 2,215 jokes in 2023, and of these 1,960, or 88 percent, were directed at right-leaning targets," the Media Research Center said.

"In his top ten, there were nine right-leaners and one left-leaner: Donald Trump (762), George Santos (276), Joe Biden (164), Mike Lindell (106), Mike Pence (72), Republicans (62), Donald Trump Jr. (58), Tucker Carlson (53), Marjorie Taylor Greene (47), and Ted Cruz (38)," the study found.

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It was similarly skewed for Meyers. Of the 2,445 political jokes he told last year, 84 percent targeted conservatives, with most jabs directed at former President Trump.

Along the same vein, Colbert told a total of 1,918 political jokes in 2023, of which 86 percent were anti-conservative.

A complete breakdown of all 9,518 jokes told last year by the six major talk show hosts can be found here.

One oddity is that Trump’s adult children were mocked at a ratio of more than 9-1 over President Biden's son Hunter Biden.

This is astonishing when you consider that Hunter's drug-fueled, prostitute-filled misadventures are jokes that practically write themselves.

Hunter Biden ‘sugar brother’ Kevin Morris plots gauzy documentary on first son https://t.co/QeXzv9mW97 pic.twitter.com/6PiE9MtsO4

— New York Post (@nypost) January 4, 2024

Years ago, comedians were irreverent and bold. They fearlessly targeted anyone who deserved to be scoffed at regardless of political affiliation.

These days, most comedians -- indeed, most entertainers and public figures -- relentlessly deride conservatives while leaving liberals untouched.

There's nothing brave about making the same, repetitive wisecracks that punch down on fellow Americans whom the industrial media complex has deemed contemptible.

It's a cowardly herd mentality that says more about the jokesters than about their targets.

Cowardice of Late Night Hosts Becomes Painfully Clear: Watchdog Finds Majority of Political Jokes Hit Conservatives (msn.com)

[Mrs.Cicero]

I haven't watched a late night talk show in decades.  I manage to catch Gutfeld clips on YouTube sometimes.  At least he has his head screwed on straighter than the rest of them.

[janice6]

I quit listening to late night tv when they went to liberal queer hosts.  I want fairness but it's unattainable in todays society.  Wait till Trump.

[Hook]

I don’t watch any of those pathetic friggin idiots. Kimmel needs to be beat with a golf club

[El Spicoli]

Kimmel sure got defensive with that Epstein list.  He went off on Rogers, threatened to sue him.  Me thinks there is something there.  

I wonder what Corolla thinks.  Jimmy is definitely not man cave material.

[ChuteTheMall]

I've never watched any of the above mentioned propagandists.

I used to watch Johnny Carson, and even Jay Leno and early David Letterman before the commies took over.

I'm too young to remember Jack Paar because it was on after my enforced bed-time.

I must have been a liberal in the late 1970's because I enjoyed early Saturday Night Live.

Glad there are more than 3 channels today, but there still isn't much worth watching out there.

[Cougar_ml]

Looking at recent history, conservatives aren't the ones going off the rails and shooting groups of people just because they got a little bit offended, so that might be part of why they are the primary target for such jokes.

 

[minderasr]

On 1/16/2024 at 2:54 PM, Mrs.Cicero said:

I haven't watched a late night talk show in decades.  I manage to catch Gutfeld clips on YouTube sometimes.  At least he has his head screwed on straighter than the rest of them.

Gutfeld is funny.  I enjoy his show.

[Valmet]

Late night talk shows died when Letterman retired…

[minderasr]

Letterman is a liberal douche canoe.  I thought Leno was much better, but nobody beats Johnny Carson.