Re: Scott Jennings Roasts Late-Night Comedians: "At Some Point, People Might Expect It To Be Funny"

On 11/13/24 10:58 AM, Rhino wrote:

On 2024-11-13 12:29 PM, Ubiquitous wrote:
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CNN Republican commentator Scott Jennings roasted late-night comedians for
their obvious descent — fueled by President-elect Donald Trump’s landslide
victory on Tuesday — into naked Democratic activism, arguing that “at some
point, people might expect it to be funny.”
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Jennings ripped into the comedians — name-dropping Jimmy Kimmel, who was
brought to tears after Trump won — and argued that they were alienating half
the country by telling them that only the Trump-hating people in their
audience really mattered.
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WATCH:
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    "At some point, people might expect it to be funny": @ScottJenningsKY
    ROASTS late night Regime comics pic.twitter.com/AB9ngrInLq
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    — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) November 12, 2024
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Jennings noted that liberal comedian and HBO host Bill Maher — who has
repeatedly swiped at his own side for going too far with regard to gender
surgeries, COVID lockdowns, and more — seemed to understand that going all-in
on activism instead of comedy — and in the process, potentially alienating
half the country — was not the wisest course of action.
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“The rest of these people have become pathetic. I mean, they stopped being
comedians and they started becoming political activists. I mean, Jimmy Kimmel
out here crying? I mean, it’s pathetic,” Jennings said. “And so my my
question is, if you’re going to have a late-night comedy show, at some point,
people might expect it to be funny and not just a constant political screed
against one party, and I don’t — I don’t know that this activism for four
more years is sustainable if you’re going to market something as comedy, but
the actual product is nothing more than sort of a lowbrow political
activism.”
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“These people represent the way a lot of people feel, so it’d actually be
interesting if the Trump folks could actually make us feel like, ‘we’re not
going to take away your rights,’ and that doesn’t make sense, you think it
doesn’t make sense a lot of people actually think that makes sense. That’s
the way a lot of people feel,” Touré protested.
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“That is their audience,” CNN host Abby Phillip said.
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“Is that their mission? To be activists and not comedians?” Jennings pressed.
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“Well, sometimes the comedian does stop telling jokes and says serious
things,” Touré replied.
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Jennings pushed on, adding, “During the Biden years, there was nobody who
provided more comedy fodder possible than Joe Biden.”
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That was enough for the rest of the panel, who all began protesting at once
that Biden had been on the receiving end of plenty of criticism and mockery.

 I am going to be REALLY surprised if the audiences for these shows fails to plummet as more and more people realize how massively biased the hosts and writers of these shows are against them.

People who are turned off by this have already stopped watching shows like this and "The View".
The only people left watching are the 'dead-enders'.

I think there are also great opportunities for the networks to hire genuinely funny right-leaning people to host their late night shows and watch their ratings go up. Or simply insist that the hosts and writers take a big step back from making political remarks of any kind unless they are prepared to skewer BOTH sides fairly equally.

"Gutfeld" already fills that niche (though "Red Eye" used to do it much better), so there is something for that.