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Peter Allen's avatar

Kimmel and Colbert had four years of rich comedic material to draw from in the Biden era but instead became prostitutes for the Democrats . They are vile and I will be happy when they crash and burn.

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Dave Johnson's avatar

Add SNL to that list.

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Victor's avatar

Colbert is probably the worst of everyone. He’s flirting dangerously close to Keith Olbermann levels of unhinged TDS. It’s his entire TV persona at this point.

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Invisible Sun's avatar

Colbert and Kimmel are the two most insufferable people in American media. They are simply unfunny people faking the act of being funny. It's like an inside joke on normal America. Why is this clown on my TV? It is only to prove that mean people are in power.

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Victor's avatar

Who the fuck is still watching these guys? I don’t get it.

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CjB's avatar

I couldn’t watch more than a couple seconds of the Colbert clips. Nothing funny about him. Ammo Grrrll by contrast makes me laugh out loud.

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Agent 1-4-9's avatar

Hey, good to see you here. I used to love Ammo Girl. I got kicked off the other site during the FJB craze. I didn't spell out the words; I actually wrote the letters, FJB, and BOOM!, I was gone. Never went back. Seemed too childish, especially when the authors themselves used profanity.

Would love to see her on Substack. I bet she'd attract a big following.

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Susan Vass's avatar

Thank you and "Bless Your Heart" -- in the way my Mama meant it, not in the way polite Southerners use it when they really mean "I don't like you." AG

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Howard Rosen's avatar

In the interest of being inclusive please don’t leave leave out the eminently despicable Trevor Noah.

Certainly someone who get would get points in the “most pathetic “ contest.

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Victor's avatar

Good catch, they’re the holy trinity of insufferable, pseudo-comedy corporate hacks. Hopefully Noah goes back to being irrelevant now that he’s gone from the daily show

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scott m's avatar

"near invincible ignorance" Best line of the year.

When Steven Colbert was in high school he was known as Steve, and his last name was pronounced the way it is written: COAL-bert. But that wasn't French enough for the boy.

Of the three non-comedians mentioned here, Coalbert is the ickiest of them all. He is an insult not only to comedy and common sense, but, most importantly, manhood. Try and imagine that geek trying to change a tire or hammer a nail.

Mel Brooks was constantly berated for it by his fellow Jews, but defended his lampooning of Hitler. Laughing at Hitler-ites is, he contended, the absolute best way to make them irrelevant. If you don't think "Springtime for Hitler" is hilarious, there is something wrong with you.

And while little Jimmy Fallon (Jimmy?) scoots around like a middle school sissy, his counterpart, Jimmy (Jimmy?) Kimmel, can't stop crying. I doubt he realizes how funny that is.

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Erich Sielaff's avatar

Excellent. I could not watch the Colbert clips. He is awful. In the interest of fairness, he did a remarkably warm and appropriate eulogy for Toby Keith on his show, right after he died and said that oddly, they had become friends. (I caught it on You Tube) I was impressed by that and figured Colbert must have some redeeming qualities to connect with Keith (to my knowledge Keith remained a conservative after he took down the Dixie Chicks some 20 years ago.) So I leave a little room for redemption for Colbert (might nice of me, eh?) Anyway, to your larger point about comedy, I will now coopt the word "clapter" which is the perfect application to the whole passel of late night commodal hosts. Especially the egregious Jimmy Kimmel who occupies the rung right under Colbert as the worst.

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Doplar's avatar

I've only watched these hacks in linked to short video clips as above. I find them so intolerable that any longer viewing might result in seppuku. I don't know Kimmel from Fallon, but Colbert easily stands out, and not for his comedy. Weasel comes to mind.

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alexander.helphand's avatar

As per usual a pleasure. This post was funny and it needs unpacking. A. I don't think the book of Esther is funny, just extremely dramatic. And Haman came. In Hebrew it just resonates. B. Yes I have noticed this about comedians recently. Ammogrl is laugh out loud funny . The other comedians are just preaching to the choir. Even Bill Maher whose better but just on points. Bob Newhart was hysterical. You can listen to his monologues on line and after 50 years they are still funny.

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JasonT's avatar

Glad to have you here. I enjoyed your stuff and Ammo Grrl's on the other site until I got blocked for some infraction I never saw identified. Bring her over, she would be welcomed.

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Susan Vass's avatar

I'm sorry you got blocked and hope you realize I am NOT an official member of PowerLine and have no power whatsoever. But thank you. Ammo Grrrll

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JasonT's avatar

No confusion on my part!

Hope you two and your dusty little village are doing well.

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Howard goodman's avatar

Curiously... Colbert was cast perfectly as a homosexual, demented high school teacher in the 2 or 3- season Strangers with Candy, ca. 1999-2000. He fit the role perfectly, and contributed well to the ensemble cast. You have to see it to believe it. Probably very close to Athenian buffoonery !

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Max Cossack's avatar

Was he funny?

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RAM's avatar
Feb 6Edited

Steve Martin is funny! And Carson was the ideal late night host.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeKZKKOXRLs

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Invisible Sun's avatar

As a college student, I never got into Carson but I loved Letterman. But once American culture became fully politicized, first with Bush v Gore, then the Iraq War and then the blanket cover for the Obama presidency, all the network pundits became limp and boring.

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RAM's avatar

Something about Letterman rubbed me the wrong way. A sense that he didn't really like people overall.

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scott m's avatar

He is the embodiment of contempt. I can't stand that has-been.

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Alex Hernandez's avatar

I got the same from him, although he did have some funny bits on the occasions that I watched him

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Doplar's avatar

I was watching Carson before anyone knew there was a Letterman. I never watched Letterman until after he had retired. Primarily because I was no longer watching late night. I have to say I found him to be a more interesting, brilliant and funny personality than Carson. Surprising to me. And I'm sure many would disagree.

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scott m's avatar

Martin WAS funny. Is anyone else sick to death of him and his dwarf Canadian sidekick?

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Frank Canzolino's avatar

I stopped watching ANY late night when Craig Ferguson was passed over as a host. He was fantastic…

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Click's avatar

Huh. These folks are past my bedtime, but I always figures the audience response was canned. You mean real humans sit for this? Huh.

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Mike RN's avatar

It verifiably started when Clinton donor Haim Saban bought the onion. It probably started earlier, with Norm MacDonald being fired from weekend update just in time for Hillary to run for Senate. The disappearance of all the stand-up comedians from late night host duties, the passing over of their obvious successors like Craig Ferguson for unfunny hacks was all done deliberately.

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Dave's avatar

Does anyone remember when comedians were willing to make fun of the foibles of both parties.

Now Steven Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Jon Stewart and John Oliver are so one sided they sound like scolds. Only Bill Maher, Ricky Gervais and Dave Chappelle are willing to take shots at both sides.

They remain funny. The others not.

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George Cervenka's avatar

Thank you for mentioning John Oliver.

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