I wish late night talk show hosts would get out of politics and start developing more original material. But that might be too hard for them.
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@Rick
Politics has always been a staple for late night talk show hosts - Johnny Carson was exceptionally astute, as was David Letterman. It's part and parcel of the genre. If you don't like it, don't watch. Simple.
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No, politics has NOT always been a part of late night comics. This is a relatively new development.
I wish Russonello had chosen to comment on Colbert's incredibly ageist and inappropriate "comedy" about Bernie Sanders. Don't get me wrong; I am not a Sanders fan. I am usually, however, a Colbert fan. But basing one's comedy on age-related stereotypes is apparently one of the last acceptable forms of prejudice. It's damaging, and it's not funny. It's also beneath the usual on-point comedy of Stephen Colbert.
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Wow! Trump drags the US deeper and deeper into a quagmire of lies, corruption and ignorance. Long political orations have long been the tool of the authoritarian leader and the world knows that Trump holds authoritarian leaders in high esteem. He also feeds on the mindless adulation. His 2 hour narcissistic chest thumping was devoid of any substantive content. It was not about the nation, or the people or even about the Trump cult, it was about Donald. He is without shame, without remorse, without compassion and without policy apart from what is good for himself. He is lazy and profoundly ignorant and as Dickens pointed out, “This boy is ignorance ... but most of all beware this boy for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.”
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Which is more ridiculous-- Trump's 2 hr. speech or 23 seasons of The Bachelor?
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@mutineer - I never watched The Bachelor but seeing that picture it struck me as weird that every single woman there had long hair. Kind of odd until I remembered this isn't the real world, it's where the "reality" people live.
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Ugh. The photo of “The Bachelor”women is weird. These are supposedly smart women, and they'll talk about their masters degrees while competing mainly with the longest, shiniest leg metric. In 2019? Here we are! Choose me, choose me!
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@deb - funny, I read mutineer's comment and replied about length of hair, then saw yours about the legs. Unreality TV.
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Trump's CPAC speech was not just rambling and long; it was frighteningly incoherent. His sentences did not make sense-- let that sink in. The president of our country spent two hours making no sense. This is not funny. There is something seriously wrong with a person who speaks as he did. Where is the concern from journalists and papers like the NYT? I am frightened by the speech, and I am frightened by the lack of appropriate response from newspapers.
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@Practical Realities I agree. There is something medically wrong with the man.
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@Practical Realities
I'm still waiting for the flag fetishists who screech and hyperventilate about flag lapel pins to start complaining about Trump's desecration of the flag at CPAC. How 'bout it, American Legion? Laura Ingraham? So far, crickets chirping . . . figures.
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That wasn’t a speech, that was a stream of consciousness by an unconscious president.
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You can find a lot funny with the worst speech in the history of the American Presidency, but it's not funny.
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