RON HART: Colbert and Kimmel Killed Late Night Comedy |
RON HART: Colbert and Kimmel Killed Late Night Comedy
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The great comedy tradition of Johnny Carson, Jay Leno and even David Letterman was ruined by a few arrogant heirs and woke CBS and ABC/Disney executives. They slowly and “woke-ly” suffocated late-night comedy.
Late-night hosts became angry Progressives. Like the legacy media, which had become just a propaganda wing of the Democrat Party, they lost their way. We need an honest, fourth estate (media). I would argue that political satire is the fifth estate. Giving one party a monopoly on either is bad.
The difference in what I do, (in which I state up front that I am a libertarian op-ed humorist) and what Kimmell and Colbert did is that they pretend to be independent arbiters of truth. Their networks are given free airways via the FCC (essentially, a monopoly for 3 channels) to go into almost every household in America. (RELATED: Donald Trump Tosses Stephen Colbert Into A Dumpster In Edited Video)
Political satire, done well, can make people think and speak truth to power. When the Taliban took back Afghanistan when our ill-planned debacle there ended, the first person they killed was a comedian known for making fun of them. It is why I have a pistol by my bed.
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