Jay Leno criticizes modern late-night comedy for alienating half the audience with partisan politics

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Jay Leno criticizes modern late-night comedy for alienating half the audience with partisan politics

Jay Leno reflected on his balanced political approach during his 'Tonight Show' years compared with today's divisive late-night landscape.

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I'm tempted to agree. The partisan rhetoric tends to make me uninterested.

"I read that there was an analysis done of your work on ‘The Tonight Show’ for the 22 years and that your jokes were roughly equally balanced between going after Republicans and taking aim at Democrats. Did you have a strategy?" Trulio asked.

 

[pknopp]

Funny, I get told on here all the time that you have to pick a side.

He says he didn't know if his friend was a (R) or (D). Maybe he was neither.

 

[luiza]

Funny, I get told on here all the time that you have to pick a side.

Naturally .
But that does not mean that you then have to obsessively dogmatise about that choice all of the time .

Particularly if you are DeCrepit and a Bugger with a Mucky Bum.

 

[Hafar1014]

Gutfield is blowing away the ratings and his show is conservative.

 

[shockedcanadian]

Jay Leno criticizes modern late-night comedy for alienating half the audience with partisan politics

Jay Leno reflected on his balanced political approach during his 'Tonight Show' years compared with today's divisive late-night landscape.

www.foxnews.com

I'm tempted to agree. The partisan rhetoric tends to make me uninterested.

"I read that there was an analysis done of your work on ‘The Tonight Show’ for the 22 years and that your jokes were roughly equally balanced between going after Republicans and taking aim at Democrats. Did you have a strategy?" Trulio asked.

Many countries around the world have been funding the divide in America, comedians are just an offshoot of this dark money and influence. Ask yourself why it changed so rapidly since the 1990s, what changed globally at that period of time?

 

[shockedcanadian]

Gutfield is blowing away the ratings and his show is conservative.

Yes, but he is just the counter ideology to the far-left Cali ad NY comedians. There isn't any "equal opportunist" talk show host.

 

[Hafar1014]

Yes, but he is just the counter ideology to the far-left Cali ad NY comedians. There isn't any "equal opportunist" talk show host.

So what Gutfield represents the ideology of the majority thats why he has the best ratings and the progressives are losing viewers. Thats the American way called creative destruction. We remove the failures by refusing to support them. CNN has 355,000 viewers Fox has 3 million.

 

[j-mac]

Funny, I get told on here all the time that you have to pick a side.

Nah, we can tell by what you write…

He says he didn't know if his friend was a (R) or (D). Maybe he was neither.

Or maybe they didn’t talk politics.

 

[pknopp]

Nah, we can tell by what you write…

Both sides tell me that.

 

[Hafar1014]

Many countries around the world have been funding the divide in America, comedians are just an offshoot of this dark money and influence. Ask yourself why it changed so rapidly since the 1990s, what changed globally at that period of time?

Biden is what changed the total failure of progressive socialist policies opening the door for Trump to apply conservative American values. Tax cuts, spending cuts, less government regulations, merit based hiring, an end to gender absurdity, support for the free market and opposition to foreign trade protectionism and low cost reliable energy based on facts not feelings. In just 6 months the nation is thriving pulling itself out of the hole Biden put us in

 

[shockedcanadian]

So what Gutfield represents the ideology of the majority thats why he has the best ratings and the progressives are losing viewers. Thats the American way called creative destruction. We remove the failures by refusing to support them. CNN has 355,000 viewers Fox has 3 million.

Yes, this is true. However, in the long run this will just lead to a further right push if the party goes there. Will Neo-Cons become appealing again? Trump wont be president past 2028 so lets assume the GOP win. How much far-right Neo-Con money will pour in to try and influence that President? Willl Gutfeld need to change himself and his jokes in order to keep that political base?

 

[j-mac]

Both sides tell me that.

No they don’t…

 

[Blaster]

Jay Leno had a great show devoid of politics and very entertaining.

 

[j-mac]

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[defcon4]

So what Gutfield represents the ideology of the majority thats why he has the best ratings and the progressives are losing viewers. Thats the American way called creative destruction. We remove the failures by refusing to support them. CNN has 355,000 viewers Fox has 3 million.

Gutfield is grossly over rated and awfully unfunny

 

[iamwhatiseem]

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Gutfield is blowing away the ratings and his show is conservative.

Mostly because it is funny, I am long in bed when it is on, seen numerous clips. He is killing it because it is funny and he and the panelist never sat there and ranted over and over and over on the same subject. Today - the left night shows are TRUUUMP!! TRUUUUMMP!! TRRUUUUUMMPP!!

 

[Hafar1014]

Gutfield is grossly over rated and awfully unfunny

That explains his ratings success and he overwhelms the progressives who are being canceled. You dont think hes funny what does that say about you. Hes making fun of people who think like you

 

[defcon4]

That explains his ratings success and he overwhelms the progressives who are being canceled. You dont think hes funny what does that say about you. Hes making fun of people who think like you

To each his own. I found him very "unnatural" in his presentation. I don't think he is making fun of me because I do not fall into the category he is targeting as a subject of his "jokes." If he does he is failing miserably.

 

[j-mac]

To each his own. I found him very "unnatural" in his presentation. I don't think he is making fun of me because I do not fall into the category he is targeting as a subject of his "jokes." If he does he is failing miserably.