Photo-Illustration: Vulture and Photos: Andrew Lipovsky/NBC; Courtesy of CBS; Courtesy of HBO; TBS/Youtube; Courtesy of Comedy Central “Can anyone tell me that Stephen Colbert, or Trevor Noah, or anyone doing an impression of Trump is really as funny as Trump? I don’t think so,” a writer, who worked on a popular late-night show all four years of Donald Trump’s presidency, tells me over the phone.
We didn’t take Trump seriously enough at first. My colleagues and I had a lingering, nagging sense of culpability. We became part of this nightmare recursive loop of Trump content being pumped into people’s houses. So I definitely worried: If I just stop writing about him, will he go away? I guess we’ll never know.
Everyone had the same joke. Back in the days of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart was doing something different. The show was about media criticism and how people were covering George W. Bush and really having fun with the “gotcha” clips of “Well, Bush said this at his speech yesterday, but a year ago he said this.” Playing those things off each other and pointing out that kind of hypocrisy, that felt fresh to me. And then, honestly, I think Twitter is the worst invention of modern times.
We’re applauding late-night hosts for using their platforms and multimillion-dollar salaries to sob about the state of our nation every other night. Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert are probably the worst offenders here. The latter is sometimes crying on TV about things nobody else is even that upset about. Trump’s first speech from the White House after Election Night was, predictably, full of lies and fascist propaganda.
The audience could be overly sincere. Personally, I never thought I would write for this show. I feel like whatever I’m doing now, it doesn’t really feel like comedy. I feel like everybody is trying to have fun with this thing, but it’s just an awful thing. It’s hard to provide escapism, because I feel like, at least with our show, people just want to turn to something that will confirm their biases.
Trump was too easy a target. For the first time in four years, writers’ rooms are going to have a political divide within them. I don’t know how that will reflect on TV. In my room, there’s an even divide between people who are very far left, people who are more centrist, and some people who don’t have a strong political take and just want to do comedy. It’s easy for all those people to align when you have Trump in office and he fucking sucks and everyone hates him.
Late night has been cathartic. Won’t need as much now. Fallon was not a good fit for the times. Bernie meme shows we’re ready for lighthearted political jokes. More time for hobbies and life. Less Twitter & tv. Sun is out.
I couldn't watch any of them when things were so grim that I had no stomach for Trump jokes. Not to mention everything falls flat without a live audience. I wish them luck but I think it's going to be pretty challenging.
So white. That doesn’t look like America. Those white males are afraid of losing their power, they should step down and give those late night spots to minorities.
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