Anti-Trump hack Jimmy Kimmel concedes late-night comedy is dying

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 August 19, 2024

The slow and agonizing death of late-night comedy may finally be nearing its merciful conclusion, as Americans tune out from the stiff "entertainment" served up by Democrat propagandists like Stephen Colbert. 

Democrat stooge Jimmy Kimmel had a moment of self-awareness recently, conceding that late-night comedy may soon go the way of the dodo bird.

“I don’t know if there will be any late-night television shows on network TV in 10 years," Kimmel told a podcast.

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During the Trump era, late-night comedians have become shameless hacks for the Democratic party, often devoting airtime to bitter, mean-spirited attacks against Trump and his supporters.

According to Kimmel, the decline in late-night's popularity has nothing to do with a drop in quality, but rather the rise of streaming services making network television less appealing.

"It used to be Johnny Carson was the only thing on at 11:30 p.m. and so everybody watched and then David Letterman was on after Johnny so people watched those two shows," Kimmel said.

After Trump won the 2016 election, Saturday Night Live infamously responded with a maudlin performance of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" performed by Kate MacKinnon as Hillary Clinton.

The serious, funereal spectacle emblemized late-night comedy's shift from a form of entertainment to partisan propaganda.

Kimmel "worried" about job

It has been all downhill from there. Late-night comedy took a particularly dark turn during the COVID pandemic, as hosts dedicated their shows to advertising coronavirus vaccines with painfully unfunny skits and attacking Americans who refused to take the injection.

At the time, Kimmel famously "joked" that unvaccinated Americans shouldn't get emergency medical care. 

Ironically, Kimmel, who mocked the unvaccinated while they were being fired from their jobs, is worried about the day he gets a pink slip.

“I will have a hard time when it’s over. It worries me,” he said.

“That’s part of the reason I keep going. Each time, I think this is going to be my last contract and then I wind up signing another contract, it’s because I fear that day, that Monday after my final show, where it’s like, ‘OK, now what am I going to do?"

Both Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart will be filming in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention this week, in case their viewers had any doubts about which way they lean politically.

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