Late Night Comedy Has Become Hate Speech

Townhall.com ^ | November 6, 2017 | Rachel Alexander

[treetopsandroofs]

“Under Letterman, there was a semblance of balance between political jokes aimed at the right and the left, and much of the show wasn’t political.”

Rachel doesn’t look old enough to remember when this was true.

[treetopsandroofs]

“let’s not forget about progressives on the right”

“There are none, they would also be leftists.”

I call them “alleged freepers”.

[Altura Ct.]

Let’s face it. As a general statement Hollywood, The MSM & 5th Ave hate everything we stand for.

[Leo Carpathian]

Late night isn’t comedy any more. Johnny Carson died and late night dies with him.

Johny lives in reruns forever and RAT jerks look worse and worse. It used to be clean, funny, entertaining stuff. Now it is idiotic unfunny crap with unbearably screeching "audiences".

[treetopsandroofs]

5th Avenue used to pretend to care, now they apologize profusely for any affront to 2-40% of American voters.

[Think free or die]

"It’s the last remaining vestige that is left to comedians. They can’t talk about sex. They can’t talk about body shapes. They can’t talk about women or minorities. "

Fair point. They can't make fun of drunks, drug addicts, or gender blenders either. It really is a time of limited options for comedians.

[trebb]

Late Night Comedy hasn’t been fumy for years/decades - the last one worth watching once in a while was Leno and they decided he was too much of a contrast with all the POS wannabes....

[stanne]

While visiting with cousins I observed as they watched late night I think SNL. One very liberal cousin formerly brainwashed at univ Wisconsin was laughing at every expression emanating from the stage.

There was nothing funny about any of it. Nothing

They laugh at it.

Mysterious

I find that the girls are way more interested in it than the boys are

[wbill]

Yep, me too. I used to enjoy late-night. Carson, Letterman (before he started to get old and bitter), then Leno.

I LOVED SNL. Not just watched it occasionally, I watched it religiously, and enjoyed the re-runs, too. It's gone downhill over the past 5-6 years, and really picked up speed since 2015 (actor: "Donald Trump is a $#%$#" audience: "hahahahaha". rinse and repeat for 90 minutes....)

Fallon and Seth Meyers try. They really do. I watched them for about 5 minutes when they first came on, but they're just not funny. Poor delivery, worse writing.

Kimmel and the other guy don't even bother with trying.

And that hag, Samantha Bee, is so unfunny that I stopped watching her entire network, because every 3rd commercial is for her show, and the material that they use to promote her is so bad that it raises my blood pressure. Can't imagine what the B-Roll filler for the rest of her show is like.

[logi_cal869]

“Alleged Americans”

[Redwood71]

Liberals have nothing else safe to talk about. They have no agenda that is good for the people they represent so they can only bash the other guy. Every single thing they have dreamed up has imploded, become impractical, or a waste since Roosevelt in the twenties.

So what else do they have? Truly for them it is if you can’t raise the bridge, lower the river.

rwood

[fella]

They’ve expanded Orwell’s “Two Minutes of Hate”.

[liberalism is suicide]

Comedy? Nahh! Vomity? Definitely!

[Maverick68]

“Let them rave on that men shall know them mad.....”

[wafflehouse]

in other news: water is wet

late night comedy stopped being funny years ago. SNL hasnt been funny in what, 30 years?

[Elsie]

Late Night Comedy Has Become Hate Speech

BECOME???

Rip; do you have ANY idea how long you've been asleep?

[Elsie]

The truth is the left has pulled off a clever stunt and sleight of hand when it comes to late night talk shows.

And...

news programs
and Special Reports
and Weather
and family value programs
and...

[Elsie]

What’s this thing called a “television?”

"The telescreen recieved and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it;

moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard.

 

There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment.

How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork.

It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever the wanted to.

 

You had to live- did live, from habit that became instinct- in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.

-1984, Book 1, Chapter One, George Orwell

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What didja expect; a donut??

 

or alexa - echo - dot - etal???

[Sans-Culotte]

Under Letterman, there was a semblance of balance between political jokes aimed at the right and the left

Uh, no there wasn't.

[Mastador1]

I'm sorry but the whole premise is just silly. Everyone knows that hate speech is something that can can only be committed by Conservatives, and since all late night so called comedy shows are hosted by flaming liberals it is demonstratively impossible for them to utter hate speech.