Posted on 10/14/2017 10:09:50 AM PDT by topher
NBC’s Jimmy Fallon is defending his decision to keep his show from becoming an anti-Trump crusade like other late night hosts have, saying many of the president’s words and actions are just “too serious” for joke fodder.
“With Trump, it’s just like every day’s a new thing. He gives a lot of material. A lot of stuff is hard to even make a joke about,” Fallon said in a preview of an NBC “Today” show interview to air Sunday. “It’s just too serious.”
Too be sure, several late-night TV hosts have, since essentially the start of Trump’s winning 2016 White House bid, made attacking and satirizing the president a big part of their monologues.
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Kimmel appears to have seized on the anti-Trump movement, which has coincided with a rating spike.
RATING SPIKE! LOL!
He’s saying he’s anti-trump but he’s not on the anti-trump bandwagon...?
The old Jon Stewart trick:
1) Take clown nose off and lecture everyone, maybe cry a little.
2) Get called out.
3) Put clown nose back on and say: ‘I’m just a clown, ok?’.
SNL does the heavy anti-Trump lifting for NBC. Fallon can’t touch them, so why bother.
It’s sickening. Fallon is actually a supporter of Donald Trump but his career would be destroyed if he ever made that public. The Left is nothing less than Nazis. They are out to destroy anybody who does not toe the party line.
Fallon is too smart to look at the latest shiny thing Trump dangles in front of the media. Instead, he swallows it.
I miss Johnny Carson.
And Ed Sullivan, Red Skelton, Art Carnie, Jonathan Winters, Alan King, Sid Caesar, Carol Burnett’s gang...
Ditto!
and Don Rickles
Bob Hope, Phillys Diller, Don Rickles..
I don’t get it. Watched Fallon as recently as last week and every joke was anti-Trump...
One difference though is that he still tries to make “jokes”. The rest are just up there giving political lectures night after night without any pretense of trying to be funny.
Liberalism, you are either a member of the Party, or you are not. Woe to you who are not. Kinda brings back the days of the 3rd Reich, there are only 2 kinds of people in this world, those who are German and those who are not. Want to stay in business, do what we order. So it is with the networks, and those who control them.
Yeah, I miss vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley, jokes about Hoover, and yelling at clouds.
You could be political and still be funny. Jon Stewart was actually good at this.
The problem today is that it has become so angry and unhinged. It's not funny. It's sad. Colbert used to be funny. Now he comes across as a man on the cusp of a nervous breakdown. If he was a coworker or a friend, I'd be concerned about his mental health, suggest he gets some rest or sees a therapist.
This is the state of anti-Trump "comedy" these days.
To hear the lying liberal lamestream media tell it, the entire reason Fallon and the Tonight Show is now #3 (behind Kimmel and Colbert) is because of the softball interview Fallon did with Trump some months back which concluded with Fallon ruffling up Trump's hair and proclaiming it real.
I saw that segment. I actually thought Fallon did a decent job staying away from all the negative politics and just let Trump be Trump.
The idiots that infest social media thought otherwise and Fallon took several days of abuse on it as a result. His ratings started to fall, and Fallon held true to not bashing Trump until somewhere in the last thirty days or so and especially after the Las Vegas shootings where he got on TV and chastised Trump and the Republican Party.
Up to that point, I watched Jimmy Fallon because I appreciated his sense of humor, the fact that he just wanted to entertain and stayed out of the political arena for the most part.
I had to turn him off (and have left him off since) once he started injecting politics into his monologue. I just don't want to hear it. If I cannot turn on my TV without being hit with some dipstick's political views then I'm not turning on my TV.
It's a shame too since I recently purchased a Samsung 4k Curved TV. Now it just sits there, off 99% of the time. I'll turn it on for the MLB Playoff's and the Chicago Blackhawks and that's it at this point.
Could it be that Fallon understands that alienting 1/2 of the potential audience is probably a bad ratings idea.
And Steve Allen
This is why Fallon wasn’t nominated for an Emmy this year while SNL was nominated for a record number of awards.
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