Give Jimmy Kimmel credit. He admitted he's not into the whole "funny" part of late-night comedy.
Neither is fellow late-night host Stephen Colbert, but he hasn't copped to it yet. Colbert is running out of time since his "Late Show" ends on May 21. CBS decidedly losing $40 million a year on his showcase was a fiscal bridge too far.
Colbert still found time to chat with The New York Times about his 11-year run on the Tiffany Network. The far-Left comic replaced David Letterman in 2015, and since then he's steered the "Late Show" ship decidedly toward "clapter." The interview charts the comedian's transition from generic late-night host to propagandist, and along the way Colbert wanted to set the record straight.
He's not a partisan personality. Yes, he actually said that with a straight face.
I have eyeballs and ears, and I think calling late night partisan is just roughing the ref. And we don’t even want to be refs, but they perceive us as refs. I reject the partisan description. Partisan means you’re never, ever going to make a joke about a Democrat, and that’s just not true. There’s just no comparison of how fertile the fields are.
Did the New York Times journalist bite his or her tongue so hard at that response that it drew blood? That's the only respectable response.
Yes, there's very little comic hay to be made about the modern Democratic party, says the man who ignored President Joe Biden's cognitive decline until the world leader melted down during his final debate performance.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
What about the "Quality Learing Center" scandal in Minnesota? Or Democrat after Democrat after Democrat defying their own lockdown rules while shushing the rest of us for leaving our homes? Remember how Rep. Ilhan Omar went from a pauper to a multi-millionaire back to a pauper faster than Navin Johnson?
Need more?
- The Twitter Files
- The Hunter Biden laptop coverup
- The Russian Collusion Hoax
- Eric Swalwell's sex allegations
- Kamala "Word Salad Spinner" Harris
- The Very Fine People Hoax
Oh, wait, Colbert personally peddled that one years after it was aggressively debunked.
The list of liberal malfeasance might stretch to the moon and back. It doesn't mean the GOP never behaves badly. That's hardly the case. But you have to burn some serious calories to ignore the modern Left's mania.
By that standard, Colbert is fit enough to do a triathalon.
Or, he can watch any episode of "Real Time with Bill Maher." The HBO Max host is a dyed in the wool liberal, but he calls balls and strikes in ways that both parties should cheer.
Not Colbert.
Still, he's hardly the only TV talent ready to lie for our bemusement. Jimmy Fallon recently swore that his "Tonight Show" monologues hit both sides just as hard. That's absurd, even if Fallon isn't as cruel or manipulative as Colbert or Kimmel. Both Lorne Michaels and Tina Fey insist "Saturday Night Live" doesn't pull its punches on either political party.
Poppycock. Balderdash. Take your pick. Both adjectives do the trick.
