Quoting myself from elsewhere:
I remember a guy named Mark Russell who did political stand up. He was always hilarious because he bashed BOTH sides equally!
Everything and everyone in the daily news was fair game and he was merciless. So we watched to see if he left anyone out and he never did. It was such intelligent humor that we could even laugh at our own favorites, when they were in the cross hairs!
I sure miss him and I miss that approach to humor. We never felt either patronized or gratuitously slammed. He brought so much adult wit to topics but never descended to slapstick or to high school level smears.
These so called comedians and talk show hosts right now are not intelligent enough to approach humor in that way. Instead they only challenge Conservatives generally and Donald Trump in particular...repeatedly and predictably.
It’s like beating your 80 year old grand mother at ice hockey and then acting like it’s groundbreaking humor and matchless comedy. NOT!
Mark Russel was the only appointment view on PBS in our house.