Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha gave his thoughts about late-night comedy, calling out Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, and Stephen Colbert for “speaking down to their audience”.
It’s “as if you are listening to some sort of weird version of MSNBC meets Abby Phillip over on CNN meets C-SPAN,” Concha said on Fox News’s Fox and Friends First on Wednesday.
The reaction comes after actor Vince Vaughn blasted late-night hosts for projecting political agendas during an appearance on Theo Von’s podcast This Past Weekend.
“People want authenticity. And I think that the talk shows, to a large part, became really agenda-based. It stopped being funny, and it started feeling like I was in a f****** class I didn’t want to take,” Vaughn said.
“He’s 100,000% right, actually. Late-night comedy is now nothing more than one sanctimonious, self-important sermon,” Concha said.
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Concha called out late-night host Stephen Colbert of The Late Show for having Bernie Sanders as a guest 21 times, highlighting that the substantiveness of comedy is being pushed aside for political agendas.
“Whether it’s there, or whether it’s the Pope of late-night, Jimmy Kimmel, or again, every night if the guy isn’t crying about something, he’s whining about Trump, and that just ain’t what it used to be with Carson, Letterman, and Leno when they had 10 times the ratings that these guys have,” Concha said.