Late night "comedy" shows are now group therapy for liberals and leftists. Things have fallen so far since Johnny Carson.
Trump's win means that the next four years (at a minimum) are going to mean that these shows -- if they last much longer -- might actually be unintentionally entertaining.
Earlier today I was quite surprised to learn that, according to Stephen Colbert, a majority of people in the U.S. who cast ballots in this election voted against democracy. Do these people ever actually listen to themselves?
Then there's Jimmy Kimmel, who basically gets talking points from the DNC and passes it off as a monologue (remember when Chuck Schumer's office wrote some of his material?).
The week before the Tuesday election, Kimmel made a joke that might have landed him in jail if he'd been a Republican:
Jimmy Kimmel: "If you want to vote for Trump, vote late. Vote very late. Do your voting on Thursday or maybe Friday." pic.twitter.com/Il1Ch6S0eE
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) October 31, 2024
After that, the laughter on the Kimmel show stopped.
Since then, the mood in L.A. celebrity circles hasn't been as dour since the rumor started that Epstein's client list was about to be released. Trump won the election in overwhelming fashion, but naturally that hasn't calmed down the TDS-afflicted.
Kimmel joined Colbert in finally producing some comedy, and clearly he thinks the majority of voters are idiots. Maybe talking down to us like this will help win us over -- but probably not:
Jimmy Kimmel getting choked up talking about Trump’s win is the funniest thing Kimmel has done since contracting Long TDS pic.twitter.com/ql3G3jmO5O
— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) November 7, 2024
Somebody call the waahhhmbulance!
Jimmy Kimmel getting choked up and holding back tears during his first monologue after Trump's 2nd win:
— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) November 7, 2024
Headline: 'Man famous for dressing in blackface to make fun of Karl Malone, fake outraged at Trump' pic.twitter.com/rlIRrEnVyo
This reads like dialog at the beginning of a movie where a psychiatrist is talking to a patient in a straitjacket lying on a couch in his office:
Jimmy Kimmel: "It was a really good night for Putin and for polio and for lovable billionaires like Elon Musk, and the bros up in Silicon Valley, and all the wriggling brain worms who sold what was left of their souls to bow down to Donald Trump." https://t.co/NOUgHhyDA6
— Variety (@Variety) November 7, 2024
You can almost hear Nurse Ratched on the P.A. in the background: "Medication time."
Gee, why don't more people watch late night "comedy" shows? It's a total mystery!
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