Late-night comedy is the real butt of the joke: Joe Concha
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A Washington Examiner column by Joe Concha argues that late-night comedy has become dominated by political agendas and has lost some of its humor. Concha criticizes hosts like Jimmy Kimmel,Seth Meyers,and Stephen Colbert for “speaking down to their audience,” describing the overall tone as a mix of MSNBC,CNN,and C-SPAN rather than genuine comedy. He shared these views on fox & Friends First, suggesting that the shows have shifted toward sermon-like commentary rather than entertainment.
The piece echoes a broader critique from actor Vince Vaughn,who said talk shows have become agenda-based and less authentic during an appearance on Theo von’s podcast This Past Weekend. Concha agreed, calling late-night TV “nothing more than one sanctimonious, self-vital sermon.” Examples cited include Kimmel’s commentary on Trump’s State of the Union and Colbert’s frequent guests like Bernie Sanders, with comparisons drawn to the older, higher-rated formats of Carson, Letterman, and Leno that allegedly balanced humor with more varied topics.
the article frames late-night television as increasingly politicized and less funny, highlighting a debate about the role and authenticity of comedy in the current late-night landscape.
Late-night comedy is the real butt of the joke: Joe Concha
Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha gave his thoughts about late-night comedy, calling out Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, and Stephen Colbert for “speaking down to their audience”.
It’s “as if you are listening to some sort of weird version of MSNBC meets Abby Phillip over on CNN meets C-SPAN,” Concha said on Fox News’s Fox and Friends First on Wednesday.
The reaction comes after actor Vince Vaughn blasted late-night hosts for projecting political agendas during an appearance on Theo Von’s podcast This Past Weekend.
“People want authenticity. And I think that the talk shows, to a large part, became really agenda-based. It stopped being funny, and it started feeling like I was in a f****** class I didn’t want to take,” Vaughn said.
“He’s 100,000% right, actually. Late-night comedy is now nothing more than one sanctimonious, self-important sermon,” Concha said.
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Concha called out late-night host Stephen Colbert of The Late Show for having Bernie Sanders as a guest 21 times, highlighting that the substantiveness of comedy is being pushed aside for political agendas.
“Whether it’s there, or whether it’s the Pope of late-night, Jimmy Kimmel, or again, every night if the guy isn’t crying about something, he’s whining about Trump, and that just ain’t what it used to be with Carson, Letterman, and Leno when they had 10 times the ratings that these guys have,” Concha said.
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