Posted on 09/16/2017 3:11:00 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Once upon a time Red State types were just like their Blue State brethren.
They settled in for the night by watching Jay, Conan, Dave, or Jimmy. A few monologue jokes later, and they were off to dreamland with a grin on their faces.
That was then, and by "then" we mean roughly five years ago. Today, some of the late-night faces have changed. Jay became Jimmy (Fallon). Dave gave way to Stephen (Colbert). And new talent like Trevor Noah, Jim Jefferies, and Chelsea Handler entered the arena.
The entire tenor of late night changed, too. What was once a comic free-for-all where stars gathered to hawk their product became yet another cog in the Left-Wing Propaganda Machine.
Sure, some product hawking still goes on. A few monologue jokes make you smile. But seemingly every night, on nearly every show, there's an angry comment, a rant or simply a vulgar turn of phrase aimed directly at the GOP.
Remember the oral sex joke Colbert told about President Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin? Or, more recently, how Jimmy Kimmel cracked that Sen. Ted Cruz pleasures himself to the thought of poor people lacking health care.
Comedy Central's Jefferies once called First Lady Melania Trump both "wooden" and a "dirty girl."
Late night went from Johnny Carson mocking himself for a lousy gag to comedians trafficking in the most offensive ways to insult politicians they hate (GOP members and their "co-conspirators").
And the hate flows freely on most late-night shows, with "The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon" being a notable exception. "Conan" over at TBS often sticks to the late-night script, too.
Matters will only get worse when progressive comic Sarah Silverman enters the fray.
Which begs the question: are there any right-of-center souls sticking around to watch it? If so ... why?
None of this means conservatives should wall themselves off from criticism. Nor should we adopt the pose struck by some Trump Train passengers, whose skins are as thin as our commander in chief's. It's just that watching shows that rigorously insult one worldview while giving the other a pass isn't entertaining for those in the crosshairs. So why watch it when the modern content revolution is in full swing? Endure the umpteenth time Colbert demands Trump resign, or watch one of Netflix's killer shows like "Ozark"?
Not a tough call.
What's most amazing is that no one in Hollywood is stepping up to address the sizable imbalance. Years ago, Roger Ailes looked at the TV news landscape and realized an alternative voice was in order. His Fox News didn't just rock cable television. The channel owned it.
We don’t.
We work the next day.
I don’t know. There used to be limited choices late at night. I remember watching “South Pacific” on Turner Classic Movies every night for two weeks in 1996, when I had an all-night baby. I learned all the songs. Then they changed the schedule and I had to watch “Carousel.” Bleh.
However, now you can watch anything that crosses your mind at any time.
What channel -- broadcast or cable -- would carry a conservative late night show?
like my opinion of ESPN, why insult half your available viewers?
In the case of late night “comedy” shows - make fun of BOTH sides!
That’s right. And most of us have to get up EARLY. I’m talking before 6 am, when the morning is half over.
no things went south a lot earlier....Carson, Merv Griffin and maybe a Late Show movie was when conservatives went to bed with a smile.
“Late night TV”? I think I may have watched a few minutes of Johnny Carson a couple of times. Some of us get up at 4 or 5 to get to the gym or go straight to work. Who has time for that stuff?
I don’t.
I haven’t watched any of them since Leno left.
That was then, and by “then” we mean roughly five years ago
I don’t.
Yes, everything absolutely is politicized and to leftist extremes with acidic results. Seen anything ever near TBN? They’re constantly pimping Canadian slut Samantha Bee.
They feed constant leftist propaganda, 24/7/365 to fools.
Even Jay Leno had Billy Mays and some other guy pitching McCain vs. Obama. I remember being aghast at the nonsense during the Obama campaign when it was fun to “Rick-roll” people while this antichrist-wannabe was being foisted upon a gullible population.
Most of this generation cannot discern because they don’t know what America used to be nor do they have even basic Bible knowledge. Thus they are ripe for the disaster that is coming. Some of that disaster is already here for those of us who underwent dramatic changes during the Obama usurpation.
Once in a while I would watch Jay Leno on Monday nights. I waited through the monologue for the headlines. The monologue was often a predictable litany of: bush has the mind of an infant, Jennifer Lopez has a big butt, the people of the UK have bad teeth.’
His writers went on strike for a few weeks - Jay Leno became funny! Once his writers returned the jokes reverted to their same boring formulas.
Pretty much.
“Carousel” sucks.
[Jimmy Fallon” being a notable exception]
Hrrrmpf. This clown was licking Obama’s boots like a pathetic animal. After his “Roots” band did what they did to Sarah Palin, I never tuned in again. Just a couple time of watching him slobber over Obama was enough; so I missed his buddying-up with bathroom-pimper Bruce Springsteen (that goes out to Bryan Adams as well).
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