![]() Mohapatra mentions Seth Meyers chuckling over cheesy nicknames for Trump, a list which included “Mayor McTreason.” Variety reporters point to Samantha Bee calling Trump’s daughter Ivanka a “feckless cunt.”Īlso worth noting is the fact that late-night discussions of political issues have generally moved from dialogue to monologue. When you stick to the same subject for a prolonged period, it’s only a matter of time before your material will start to sound repetitive or cheap. I can’t decide the outcome of this election, but I can make the choice for myself, to vote him out of my creative life.” In a Facebook post, Rebecca Drysdale, the former head writer of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, explained that, “The project of… doing material about Trump, has led to divided creative teams, anxiety, tears, and pain. This prospect has led many seasoned late-night writers to look for other jobs. We’re going to have to talk about those.” He’s going to start his own media company to fuss 24/7. “This isn’t the kind of evil dude who goes quietly into the night and starts painting watercolors. “I fear he’ll never leave the public eye,” Zack Bornstein, who has worked on Saturday Night Live and Jimmy Kimmel Live, told CNBC. To this point, one could argue that their extended coverage is helping him stay relevant when he could have been forgotten. ![]() On the contrary, shows continue to talk about him despite the fact that, as a private citizen, he is unable to enact direct influence over the government and is not involved in international affairs. An unwavering obsessionĬrucially, late-night’s interest in Donald Trump has not decreased since he left office. While this fictional character resembles Trump, he is not a direct representation of him. Instead, they casted a fictional, pre-existing character to assume the role of president. “I could write jokes for 800 years and I’d never think of something funnier than Trump booking the Four Seasons for his big comeback presser, and it turning out to be the Four Seasons Total Landscaping,” says one writer.Īlthough not a conventional late-night show, the animated series South Park - known for satirizing public events in semi-serial stories - decided to ignore Donald Trump altogether. Supposedly, the people writing late-night shows got frustrated because Trump-related news was often so surreal that it was difficult to satirize. ![]() Where some hosts previously had been poking fun at Hollywood, now they were turning their attention toward Washington. The number of shows increased rapidly, while the shows themselves changed their areas of interest. At first, Trump’s presence in the media reinvigorated the late-night format. Others link the downfall of late-night shows to the rise of Donald Trump. This suggests that, while late-night shows have managed to adapt to new forms of technology and distribution models, there is something about them - perhaps their sense of urgency - that fails to capture our current zeitgeist. Interestingly, many late-night shows perform well on YouTube, where clips from their television episodes can be watched at leisure and out of order. In other words, late-night is no longer late at night. Instead of sitting down for a program at a fixed time of day, contemporary audiences prefer to watch whenever they want through subscription services like Netflix. One popular explanation is that the late-night show format, conceived during the golden age of television, is no longer viable thanks to streaming services. The reasons for this downfall are less obvious. ![]()
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