Have you ever watched late-night comedy shows and thought the constant barrage from Republicans, Tea Party people, and Donald Trump just wasn’t funny anymore? Yeah, me too, and as a right-libertarian, I think it’s picky, victimhood, progressive poop. What’s even more interesting is that all of these programs are essentially the same, and they all compete with each other, while all the right-leaning people tune out. From a marketing and branding standpoint that just doesn’t make sense, but their ideological bias doesn’t allow them to look for viewers outside of this neoliberal “hate speech” bubble – no wonder they can’t believe they lost the election – they lived in your own living room echo chamber.
Consider whether you will attend the following late-night talk/comedy shows:
jimmy kimble
jimmy fallon
Stephen Colbert
john stuart
David Letterman
Ellen Degeneres
john oliver
james corden
Of course, this does indeed open up a slot for a right-leaning late-night talk show host. Since there aren’t any, that means he or she would have 50% of the audience right away, all those who have turned off the TV or are watching movies at night because they can’t stand people making fun of them and calling them ignorant, stupid, racist, hater or fanatic every night with nausea. Can you imagine the immediate audience numbers?
From a right-leaning point of view, I have to say that today’s late-night talk hosts think they are comedians, but I see it as “entertaining hate speech” and find it quite hypocritical that they condemn a group of people, that we tell everyone to be ‘politically correct’ and then make fun of us on the right. Personally, I find these people sick, pathetic and disgusting, I don’t find them funny at all. Sure, it used to be funny once in a while, I mean, I can take it a little bit, but on all the major TV stations, every night, night after night, year after year, no, it’s not funny anymore.
On March 8, 2016, The Washington Post published an article titled; “Late night tells 3 times as many jokes about the 2016 Republicans as the Democrats”, by S. Robert Lichter, Stephen J. Farnsworth and Deanne Canieso. A recent poll at the height of the 2016 election season said it was 8:1 against the Republicans. Another poll noted that prior to the 2016 election season, 48% of late-night TV audiences identified as Democrats and 17% as Republicans. There is an obvious trend here.
Let’s say you have 4 shows every night and there is an audience of 40 million people, or let’s say an average of 10 million viewers for each show, yet we know there are 40 million Americans who feel alienated by late night talk. the show hosts, just tired of being called stupid, and probably voted for Donald Trump and would see if there was a show that had a balanced critique and not just politically one-sided like we currently have.
Imagine a late-night talk show with those kinds of ratings – you’d be all in if you were FOX, and there’s a fortune to be made. Perhaps someone will see this opportunity in our nation’s psyche, just as Trump saw an opening for his brand of politics? Think about this.
