Late-night hosts political jokes ‘alienating’ Half TV audience
Jay Leno believes that TV comediers have become too politized in the late night and that they run the risk of losing half of the viewing public by “co-coating to one or the other.”
“For me I would like to think people come to a comedy show to get away from things, you know, the pressure of life, whatever it is,” said Leno in a recent interview with David Trulio, President and CEO of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute. “Now you have to be satisfied with half of the audience because you have to give your opinion.”
Leno did not mention names. But the current schedule of hosts in the Late Nacht-Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Jon Stewart, John Oliver, Seth Meyers and Meer-has Routinematig President Trump and the Maga movement mocked. To be honest, they also have opportunistic Lampooned -Democrats.
The impression of Leno is that TV Late Night nowadays shakes to specific political points of view. “I love political humor, don’t get me wrong,” the veteran told Trulio in the late night. “But it is exactly what happens if people do too much on one or the other.” Leno asked rhetorically: “Why just shoot for half an audience all the time? You know, why not try to get the whole. I mean, I like to bring people to the big picture.”
Leno’s interview with Trulio, formerly Fox News Digital’s Managing Editor and Head of Strategy and Editorial Operations, was performed before CBS announced on July 17 that the “Late Show with Stephen Colbert” canceled. CBS claimed that it was ‘purely a financial decision’.
The Axing of the Show of Colbert seemed to be a different concession to many critics to Trump, after CBS mother company Paramount Global corresponded to pay the president $ 16 million to arrange what legal experts said that a deserving court case was after “60 minutes”. After Trump said, “I am absolutely fond of that jacket was fired,” Colbert told Trump that he “had to fuck yourself.” On Friday, David Letterman, former ‘Late Show’ Gastheer, closed the cancellation of the Show of Colbert as an act of ‘pure cowardice’ and suggested that Skydance Media (whose acquisition of Paramount will close next month after the FCC de Deal had approved) wanted to prevent Colbert to prevent problems with the Trump.
The Caption for the Reagan Foundation’s Youtube interview clip with LenoWho was placed on July 22, says: “In the past TV laughs about laughing no lectures. @Jayleno tells us why he never shared his political opinions about the Tonight Show, and why he thinks the hosts of today are losing half of America.” The first part From Trulio’s interview with Leno was posted on YouTube on July 9. Part 2In which Leno “shares his thoughts about the comic sparkle of Reagan,” was uploaded July 15.
Leno organized “The Tonight Show” on NBC from 1992 to 2009; Conan O’Brien briefly took the reins of the show before NBC Leno returned from 2010-14. Leno was the first talk show gastheer in the late night that would hold an interview with a sitting president, with President Barack Obama appearing in the show in March 2009.
After Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential elections, Leno said in an appearance about “The View” that he was “not a fan” of Trump, but that “the nice thing about this election is, it was honest, it was honest … There was no cheating. Everyone says it was honest. I mean a great day for democracy.
In the interview with Leno, Trulio referred to a study by the ‘Tonight Show’ jokes of the comedian, of which Trulio said that it was ‘about as balanced between accepting the Republicans and focusing on Democrats’. According to George Mason University analysis Released in 2009, on “The Tonight Show” from 1992-2008, Leno told 4,468 jokes about Bill Clinton, almost 50% more than George W. Bush (2,999 jokes). They follow in the top 10 most common goals of Leno’s jokes were already Gore, Hillary Clinton, OJ Simpson, Dick Cheney, Michael Jackson, Monica Lewinsky, Bob Dole and John McCain.
Asked by Trulio what his strategy was with regard to political humor, Leno replied: “It was funny for me when I received hate letters [that said]’You and your Republican friends’ and’ Well, Mr. Leno, I hope you and your democratic friends are happy ‘ – about the same joke. And I am going: ‘Well, that’s good. This way you get a whole audience. ” ‘
Leno has previously shared his conviction that hosts who have come behind him are too one -sided. In 2019 he said about ‘the view’ that he “Always kept humiliating and breaking down from both sides from both sides.”
See also: Jay Leno says Jimmy Kimmel ‘Verneder Me’ in 2010 ‘Tonight Show’ Interview and ‘I Let It Happened. I didn’t edit it. It was my fault. ‘
