{"id":2583651,"date":"2026-03-25T11:26:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/late-night-comedy-is-the-real-butt-of-the-joke-joe-concha\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T11:29:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:29:45","slug":"late-night-comedy-is-the-real-butt-of-the-joke-joe-concha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/late-night-comedy-is-the-real-butt-of-the-joke-joe-concha\/","title":{"rendered":"Late-night comedy is the real butt of the joke: Joe Concha"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flate-night-comedy-is-the-real-butt-of-the-joke-joe-concha%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2583651&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A Washington Examiner column by Joe Concha argues that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/snl-finally-takes-aim-at-biden-mocks-his-af1-stumbles-cheat-sheets\/\" title=\"SNL Finally Takes Aim At Biden, Mocks His AF1 Stumbles, Cheat Sheets\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/late-night-restaurant-owners-want-to-play-fair-so-far-they-say-newsom-hasnt\/\" title=\"Late-... restaurant owners want to play fair. So far, they say, Newsom hasn...t\">late-night<\/a> comedy<\/a> has become dominated by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-endorses-moving-mlb-all-star-game-out-of-georgia-lauds-athletes-using-sports-to-push-politics\/\" title=\"Biden Endorses Moving MLB All-Star Game Out Of Georgia, Lauds Athletes Using Sports To Push Politics\">political agendas<\/a> and has lost some of its humor. Concha criticizes hosts like Jimmy Kimmel,Seth Meyers,and Stephen Colbert for \u201cspeaking down to their audience,\u201d describing the overall tone as a mix of MSNBC,CNN,and C-SPAN rather than genuine comedy. He shared these views on fox &#038; Friends First, suggesting that the shows have shifted toward sermon-like commentary rather than entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s podcast This Past Weekend. Concha agreed, calling late-night TV \u201cnothing more than one sanctimonious, self-vital sermon.\u201d Examples cited include Kimmel\u2019s commentary on Trump\u2019s State of the Union and Colbert\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>the article frames late-night television as increasingly politicized and less funny, highlighting a debate about the role and authenticity of comedy in the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >current late-night landscape<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Late-night comedy is the real butt of the joke: Joe Concha<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2542933\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><em>Washington Examiner <\/em>columnist <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/author\/joe-concha\/\">Joe Concha<\/a> gave his thoughts about late-night comedy, calling out Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, and <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/stephen-colbert\/\">Stephen Colbert<\/a> for &ldquo;speaking down to their audience&rdquo;.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s &ldquo;as if you are listening to some sort of weird version of MSNBC meets Abby Phillip over on <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/cnn\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"732\">CNN<\/a> meets <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/c-span\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"2131\">C-SPAN<\/a>,&rdquo; Concha said on Fox News&rsquo;s <em>Fox and Friends First <\/em>on Wednesday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/4502090\/schumer-not-praise-trump-ruin-iran-militia-left-base-guy-benson\/\">Schumer can&#8217;t praise Trump degrading Iran military due to &#8216;left-wing base&#8217;: Guy Benson<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/4501706\/ron-desantis-skeptical-zohran-mamdani-cause-uptick-migration-florida\/\">DeSantis skeptical Mamdani will cause more migration to Florida: &#8216;We&#8217;ll see&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/4501240\/cory-booker-stand-americans-core-virtues-political-division\/\">Can everyday virtue save America? Cory Booker makes his case in new book<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share?id=3445024&amp;userid=11311&amp;usertype=user&amp;loginid=10455&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=048a4da793ba02cd78275668d0c3a874\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The reaction comes after <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/celebrities\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"688\">actor Vince Vaughn<\/a> blasted late-night hosts for projecting political agendas during an appearance on Theo Von&rsquo;s podcast <em>This Past Weekend.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;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&rsquo;t want to take,&rdquo; Vaughn said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s 100,000% right, actually. Late-night comedy is now nothing more than one sanctimonious, self-important sermon,&rdquo; Concha said.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/watch\/2515949\/\"><strong>JIMMY KIMMEL CARPS OVER TRUMP&rsquo;S RECORD-BREAKING STATE OF THE UNION<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Concha called out late-night host Stephen Colbert of <em>The Late Show <\/em>for having <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/bernie-sanders\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"41\">Bernie Sanders<\/a> as a guest 21 times, highlighting that the substantiveness of comedy is being pushed aside for political agendas.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Whether it&rsquo;s there, or whether it&rsquo;s the Pope of late-night, Jimmy Kimmel, or again, every night if the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tim-walz-mocked-after-his-bizarre-interaction-with-kamala-harriss-allies-something-seriously-wrong\/\" title=\"Tim Walz Mocked After His Bizarre Interaction with Kamala Harris...s Allies - ...Something Seriously Wrong...\">guy isn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t crying about something, he&rsquo;s whining about Trump, and that just ain&rsquo;t what it used to be with Carson, Letterman, and Leno when they had 10 times the ratings that these guys have,&rdquo; Concha said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late-night hosts accused of talking down to viewers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4226,"featured_media":2583652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/KIMMELSHOW.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[7958,73764,25906,4188,32870],"class_list":["post-2583651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-comedy","tag-joe-concha-2","tag-late-night","tag-media","tag-satire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/KIMMELSHOW.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2583651"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2583655,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583651\/revisions\/2583655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2583652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2583651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2583651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2583651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}