Would a Biden Victory Crush Late Night TV?
31st October 2020
The 2016 presidential race permanently changed the jokes broadcast after the nightly news.
Late night comedians, fearing a Donald Trump victory, shifted their content aggressively to the Left. Jokes got massaged or simply nudged aside for talking points ripped out of a New York Times op-ed.
In short, they took sides in the Trump-Clinton steel cage match. The only thing missing? Blue pom poms. (Maybe they were just off camera…).
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The need for nightly cyber-therapy will be all but gone for hardened liberals. Where does that leave late night comedy without its go-to bogeyman?