Thank goodness for these late-night hosts. Their monologues help me see the irony and humor in Trump’s insanity. Sometimes the daily drama is so awful, I really need to laugh. I think they’re great. Even Fallon has stepped up to the plate.
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Jack, Schlomo and Chip either have no sense of humor, or they are republicans...oops, I'm repeating myself....sorry
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@NYTimes. In general, please, please use the term completed suicide instead of committed suicide. I’ve seen *committed* too many times lately, including in a headline. This is the only instance when committed does seem appropriate. Epstein committed many crimes and egregious acts, and this was his final offense. However, when referring to normal, good people, please use *completed*.
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@NYTimes Reader
Suicide is illegal in most circumstances. Whether it's morally right or wrong is a completely separate question; its legal status is a crime. Your thought process seems to be "since I don't consider it wrong, it doesn't count as a real crime, unless the person who does it is a bad person, in which case it does count because it makes them more bad." Thank god the paper of record doesn't use this logic.
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Thank you so much for having the write ups of the comedians. It’s really helpful. hopefully the next president will not give them so much material.
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Trump tends to project a lot so when he makes his wild accusations folks need to take a look and see if he is referring to himself.
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Why do you waste time reprinting what comedians said last night?
If these guys really believed what they are saying, they would step out of their studios, and strike. Or lay down in the middle of Broadway.
Instead, they're getting paid many millions of dollars to preach to the choir, and provide a platform by which American companies can sell their garbage to obese consumers.
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@Jack Lemay I figured someone would complain about the late night comedians. Yep, I was right. I don't stay up that late, so sometimes I like to see what was said and by whom.
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@Jack Lemay - No one is forcing you to read this.
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@Jack
Hi there, Mr. Jack Lemay.
Usually, when I respond to someone else's comment, it's to express total disagreement.
And now is no exception. Sorry about that, Mr. Lemay.
The guys really DO believe what they're saying. AND--
(1) step out of their studios and "strike"?
Pray what good would THAT do? Enlighten me, sir. I'm in the dark.
(2) Lie down in the middle of Broadway?
Now Mr. Lemay, what earthly good would THAT do? How would that improve the dismal status of these United States by one iota? Enlighten me. I'm in the dark.
These men are (you tell us) "preaching to the choir." Yes. Maybe so. Two things.
(1) Their ridicule (bearing as it does a potent admixture of TRUTH) is tonic to the flagging spirits of "that choir." Lord knows, it's tonic to MY spirits. If we can't laugh at Mr. Trump's ongoing fatuities, what CAN we do? Scream? "Lie down in the middle of Broadway"? Thanks. I'd rather not.
(2) Maybe--just maybe--some viewers AREN'T members of the choir. Maybe--just maybe it'd do 'em some GOOD to see their idol mocked and derided. Ridentem dicere vera / quid vetat? asked Horace. How come you can't tell the truth while laughing?
Who knows? Maybe some of 'em WOULD laugh. And "see the light." I hope so.
Millions, you say? Well sir--
--they deserve every penny. More power to them!
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Colbert has stopped being funny. Bring back the mensch Jon Stewart!
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@Schlomo Scheinbaum
No, let Jon Stewart continue to be the mensch that gets things done--without a laugh.
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‘Unstable, Tin-Foil-Hat Loons’ . . . if Stephen Colbert, or his writers, ever had an original thought it would die of loneliness. I don't understand how contrived opinions of cheesy late-night entertainers carry enough weight to make the morning news.
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@Chip
Ah, a Republican checks in.
Frankly, the President's chaotic activities need all the caustic scrutiny available. The Late Night Hosts put everything in perspective.
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"Very stable genius" would have been funnier, but it was taken.
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@Chip hu·mor /ˈ(h)yo͞omər/
noun
1.
the quality of being amusing or comic, especially as expressed in literature or speech.
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