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.
5’6”, according to Wikipedia, which is tall from my perspective ;-). She’s 86 now. A great talent who had a very solid career for decades. Mother was a ballerina, father was a musician, so a stage career was a pretty obvious outcome.
Well, this gets personal. I had been watching Jimmy Fallon, since he is very smart and funny, but the other night ( what’s today ? ) maybe Tuesday, he came on with some kind of Trump thimg, and, having been drinking, I exploded, in front of my wife, to boot, that I was never ******* going to watch ******* Jimmy Fallon again. It’s a funny thing, but I only remember my own words. So far I’ve been faithful to my declaration, but I make no further claim.
Effing wonderful, Man
Fallon is such a hypocrite. I will say this, the last appearance of Trump before the election was not bad. I had hope Fallon would not burn his goodwill and bridges, but I he has.
Think about how Cyd Charisse (another beautiful star, but not the talent of Gaynor) towered over Astaire, Gene Kelly, and other leading men—something you didn’t notice unless dancing. They would put Charisse in flats and maneuvered choreography to downplay her height. These days, tall is beautiful. As in 6ft Melania.
Cyd Charisse was 5’7”, says Wikipedia. Leslie Caron, another dancer/actress of the time, was 5’1”. Audrey Hepburn, 5’7”.
The marketability of a woman dancer has to take into account the height of available partners. It’s different for a model, especially a “glamour” model, like Melania Knauss or Brooke Shields, because there’s no scale. They tend to be in the top 1% of height, if only because a taller frame makes it easier to be extremely thin.
We don’t either. I don’t know why we even have “local channels” on our DIRECTV.
Jay Leno vs Joan Rivers? I am thinking that Rivers was not given the job on the Tonight Show because of what Carson wanted, but what NBC execs ordered. She was too much of a loose cannon, whereas Leno was boring and stale.
Because the law requires it. When directv started they had network feeds from LA and NY. Customers clamored for their stations and refused to subscribe. Local channels complain that people were watching lA and NY and they ere losing local sponsors.
it took a decade to get the feds to let them offer local channels. That was about 15 years ago. So now programming and things change. The satellite systems are too expensive and they refused to go cafeteria style offerings so now they do some streaming but are still way too expensive.
DirecTV since 1998
I don’t. But I have seen snippets of Seth Meyers and I find him particularly obnoxious and boorish.
Steve Allen - This Could Be the Start of Something Big - top that, Colbert, you no-class a$$.....
Never, ever have watched ANY of the unfunny, so-called late-night, psychopathic "comics"...and never will.
Leni
Me too.
I’ve never watched late night TV shows. Except for the old Saturday Night Live ones.
LOL maybe it’s something else.
Thought it was Turner Broadcasting Network.
I think I meant TBS. ;)
I’m not sure but I would guess so.
We found out the title of what they used on Sarah Palin.
They really are a piece of work. Well, they’re liberals, so no surprise.
One of the ugliest personalities on TV is that vindictive, nasty idiot, Colbert.
The myth Trump has a thin skin is so pedestrian. No political figure in my lifetime has taken the constant abuse (from all sides) as President Trump. Not even Reagan.
If President Trump were as thin skinned as claimed by these "pundits" he would have resigned long ago. "Pundits" are the most boring people on earth.
Charisse only 5’7”?! Maybe that was tall for back then. We have gotten taller as a people. And wider. Well, I always had the impression from the movies that Gaynor was a “pocket Venus”. But she was one of my movie favorites.
Really prefer bouncy allegro dancers to the endless stretching...but I can only watch ballet on YouTube now to see the classical choreography. Modern dance companies are just crap.
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