BROADCAST BIAS: Late-night comedy death spiral shows how leftist hate killed their humor

This twelvemonth hinted powerfully astatine the extremity of a broadcast web epoch for the late-night drama show. CBS made the bold determination of declaring they were granting conscionable 1 much play to "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert." In the Johnny Carson era, his amusement dominated the aerial space. Today, the "comedians" are catering to a leftist assemblage successful what sounds similar radical therapy. 

President Donald Trump’s re-election powerfully signaled that the ever-cascading mockery of the "Orange Man" didn’t support him from winning. But wide pundits inactive equated comedians with democracy. On ABC’s "The View," co-host Sunny Hostin dramatically proclaimed that this determination to halt losing wealth connected Colbert wasn't fiscal (as CBS claimed). "This is the dismantling of our democracy. This is the dismantling of our Constitution." She broke retired that aged saw astir liberals "speaking information to power." But they ne'er talk information to "power" erstwhile their favorites win. They didn’t "speak truth" erstwhile erstwhile President Joe Biden was evidently successful cognitive decline. 

The astir memorable moments from late-night comedians successful 2025 were irredeemably nasty. Take Jon Stewart during his Mondays-only gig connected "The Daily Show," mocking the escaped marketplace successful February. "Capitalism is by explanation exploitative. It's however it operates. That's fine. But past government's relation should beryllium to easiness the antagonistic effects connected Americans of that exploitation, not subsidize that treachery with our money. We are getting [bleeped] astatine a Diddy enactment and they're making america bargain the babe oil!" 

That’s not arsenic nasty arsenic Stewart’s aged underling John Oliver connected HBO’s "Last Week Tonight" successful March, disparaging erstwhile President Ronald Reagan. "I volition admit determination are affirmative things you tin accidental astir Reagan, similar ‘He was our lone president to marque a movie with a chimp,’ oregon ‘He's dead.’ But his motivation clarity mightiness travel arsenic a astonishment to immoderate cheery radical who lived done the 1980s. I'm conscionable saying, if you brought Reagan backmost from the dormant and told him each the racist crap Trump's managed to bash successful little than 2 months, he'd cum truthful hard he'd dice again."

JIMMY KIMMEL SAYS TYRANNY RISING UNDER TRUMP, TAUNTS PRESIDENT OVER SHOW'S RETURN

"The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" and impermanent Prince Harry during Wednesday's Dec. 3, 2025, show. (Scott Kowalchyk/CBS News via Getty Images)

The late-night guests knew however to echo their hosts. When Trump took implicit operations astatine the Kennedy Center, histrion Nathan Lane uncorked a rant connected the Colbert show, mocking what Trump would diagnostic connected stage.  "Like time nighttime they person a younker choir made up wholly of Elon Musk's children. Because ‘Hamilton’ canceled its engagement, they are producing Lee Greenwood's all-rap philharmonic tribute to Ronald Reagan starring Kanye West. It's called ‘Trickle Down.’ That’s followed by a caller accumulation of ‘The Sound of Music’ told from the constituent of presumption of the Nazis. Trust me, spot me, you don't privation to perceive the database of their favourite things." 

Even America itself was trashed for re-electing Trump. British histrion Alan Cumming performed a superiority creation successful July connected Jimmy Kimmel’s show.  "America, however are you doing? No, really, however are you doing? I mean, however are you doing speech from being a state that has conscionable reintroduced attraction camps, taken healthcare distant from 17 cardinal radical to springiness billionaires a taxation cut, and besides to concern an equipped militia of masked men that commits heinous assorted kidnapping and crimes against humanity connected a regular basis? Aside from each that, are you okay? I wouldn’t person thought so." 

This mightiness assistance radical recognize wherefore these shows are sinking successful the ratings. You person to beryllium a peculiar class of hater to extremity your time with these rants. Alex Christy astatine NewsBusters recovered that 92% of the governmental jokes told connected broadcast late-night shows were astir conservatives, up from 82% successful 2024. The impermanent database was adjacent worse, astir unanimously left-wing, 99% of the time: 196 liberals to conscionable 2 conservatives. Jimmy Fallon’s chat with Greg Gutfeld stuck retired for however remarkably uncommon it was.

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The worst late-night infinitesimal of the twelvemonth was evidently Jimmy Kimmel’s brazen prevarication astir the governmental views of Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin. "We deed immoderate caller lows implicit the play with the MAGA pack desperately trying to qualify this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk arsenic thing different than 1 of them and doing everything they tin to people governmental points from it." 

It was a caller debased each right. It was a clip for mourning, not mockery and lies. Two station-affiliate groups decided to garbage to aerial Kimmel’s show, truthful ABC unopen it down ... for 4 programs. Four reruns of "Family Feud." But the elitist media had a month’s worthy of tantrums. CNN big Jake Tapper proclaimed connected the Seth Meyers show, "I thought it was beauteous overmuch the astir nonstop infringement by the authorities connected escaped code that I've seen successful my lifetime."

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Kimmel ended the twelvemonth by being awarded the "Alternative Christmas Message" connected Britain’s Channel 4, where, conscionable similar his impermanent Alan Cumming, Kimmel knocked America arsenic a "right mess" a crumbling ideology successful a federation afloat of dummies. "We are not bright. We’re Americans. No 1 knows amended than you, we’re ever conscionable a small spot precocious to the game, but bash we travel done successful the end? Maybe. Give america astir 3 years. Please." 

ABC extended Kimmel’s declaration by lone 1 year, due to the fact that there’s lone truthful overmuch wealth a concern wants to suffer for someone’s fiercely nasty "freedom of speech." Kimmel could inactive travel Colbert retired the doorway since he’s not into broadcasting, lone narrowcasting.