Posted on 12/27/2024 7:12:55 AM PST by Libloather
Late-night hosts relentlessly made Donald Trump the focus of nearly all of their jokes before the presidential election, but failed to sway the voting, as revealed by a new study.
A shocking 98 percent of the jokes made by Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers and Saturday Night Live in the lead up to Election Day made Trump the butt of the joke, according to media watchdog group Media Research Center.
As many as 1,428 of the 1,463 political jokes on these shows - from September 3 through October 25 - were targeted at Trump, the study found.
'That's a whopping 40:1 ratio or almost 98 percent to 2 percent,' said MRC analyst Alex Christy, as reported by Fox News.
Even when the late-night hosts mocked then-nominee Joe Biden, they often softened the jokes with comments about Trump.
In June, Seth Meyers touched on Biden's age and cognitive decline but then made sure to note Trump's criminal convictions.
'As we made clear on this show repeatedly, there’s no equivalency between a competent 81-year-old who occasionally shows signs of age and a demented 77-year-old criminal who says dead people rigged the election and thinks electric boat batteries will lead to shark attacks,' Meyer clarified.
In September, Kimmel even brought out his wife to the show to roast Trump and tell him to 'shut up and go away.'
'Go to Mar-a-Lago, spend all day, every day, cheating at golf and masturbating to Newsmax, and let a competent woman take over. That's my advice. That's my advice. Thanks for listening,' she said.
In late October, Kimmel went on a 20-minute rant against Trump, using clips from the former president's speeches, interviews and rallies to try and illustrate several aspects he believes make Trump unfit to lead.
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Late night hosts are supposed to be funny.
Calling half your audience morons and imbeciles is not funny.............
Well, Maybe Trump will MAGA late night tv also.
At all.
I hope so.
Very.
Seems like this articles only purpose was to reprint all the bad Trump jokes again for people to read.
‘Calling half your audience morons and imbeciles’ is the lazy, stupid man’s approach to political political satire.
Attacking a person who cannot (may not) respond is like beating your 80 year old grandmother at hop scotch...and not humorous.
Rather, is demonstrates how stupid YOU are
Somebody needs to ask those so called “entertainers” what it is that they think makes them uniquely qualified to be experts in the field of US politics.
Turns out, the jokes were on the Left looney Red Fascist late night hosts and their families.
That POS Kimmel - crying like a lil’ bish was especially hilarious.
I am betting his little 🔵🔵 are especially tight against his bedazzled vagina right now.
If you want to see what weak, broken men look like, see here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3yhf7dZVIw
This is a reason all these shows are dying. Late night has maybe 20% of the audience it once had and there are more shows now.
These talk show idiots pushed away their conservative viewers. And many middle-of-the-road folks, too. That started many years ago.
Now it’s 2024. No one remains but liberal viewers. So whose votes did these hosts change with their antics? No one’s.
Preaching to the choir, as the old saying goes.
F all of them!
Johnny Carson took shots at both parties.
Even Jay Leno did as well.
The FUNNIEST joke that I remember from the 2004 election came from Leno.
There was a highly circulated picture in Elite Stream Media of John Kerry windsurfing in a spandex body suit not quite as infamous as Dukakis in the tank with the Snoopy hat.
Anyway Leno put up the picture on the screen and quipped,
“Even his hobbies depend on which way the wind blows.”
These people illustrated they don’t understand media and people. By constantly talking about Trump and not even mentioning Harris they made Trump look large and powerful and Harris look weak and insignificant.
And it worked.
I’ve seen enough of Kimmel, Colbert and Fallon over the years.
Politics aside, Colbert is by far the least funny of the three.
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