Late-night hosts ruthlessly made Donald Trump the center of almost all their jokes before the presidential election, but failed to sway the vote, as a new study shows.
A shocking 98 percent of jokes made by Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers and Saturday Night Live in the run-up to Election Day made Trump the butt of the joke, according to media watchdog group Media Research Center.
As many as 1,428 of the 1,463 political jokes in these programs – from September 3 to October 25 – were aimed at Trump, the study found.
“That’s a whopping 40:1 ratio, or almost 98 percent to 2 percent,” said MRC analyst Alex Christy, as reported by Fox News.
Even when the late-night hosts poked fun at then-nominee Joe Biden, they often softened the jokes with comments about Trump.
In June, Seth Meyers addressed Biden’s age and cognitive decline, but then noted Trump’s criminal convictions.
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The late-night hosts ruthlessly made Donald Trump the center of almost all their jokes before the presidential election, but failed to sway the vote
“As we have made clear repeatedly on this show, there is no equivalence between a capable 81-year-old who occasionally shows signs of aging and a demented 77-year-old criminal who says dead people rigged the election and thinks batteries from electric boats will conduct the elections. against shark attacks,” Meyer clarified.
In September, Kimmel even brought his wife on the show to roast Trump and tell him to “shut up and go away.”
“Go to Mar-a-Lago, spend all day, every day, cheating on golf and masturbating to Newsmax, and let a competent woman take over. That’s my advice. That’s my advice. Thanks for listening,” she said.
In late October, Kimmel railed against Trump for 20 minutes, using clips from the former president’s speeches, interviews and rallies to illustrate several aspects he believes make Trump unfit to lead.
‘Am I biased against Donald Trump? Yes,” Kimmel admitted. “Do I think I have good reason to be prejudiced against him? Yes.
Just days before the election, SNL had Harris do a 90-second appearance alongside Maya Rudolph, leading to accusations that NBC was violating FCC rules about the airtime given to presidential candidates on television.
But the liberals’ jokes ultimately did not affect the election, as Trump won a decisive victory over Vice President Kamala Harris in November.
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“The so-called comedians on the late-night shows would never harm Trump because their audience is completely filled with Trump-hating Democrats who want their dose of Trump hate,” MRC director Tim Graham told Fox News.
“Colbert and Kimmel and the rest sound more like Democratic senators than people hired to make you laugh.”
On November 5, the late-night hosts had to cover Trump’s victory live on TV, with Kimmel nearly bursting into tears.
Fallon said America “got back together with its crazy ex,” while Colbert hysterically admitted that things weren’t “not going great for him.”
“It was a terrible night last night,” Kimmel said before listing things that would be “terrible” under Trump’s presidency.
“Well, f**k… It happened again.” Colbert said, “After a bizarre and brutal campaign fueled by a desperate need to avoid going to jail, Donald Trump has won the 2024 election.”
Meanwhile, Meyers told his audience that something in his brain was a little broken last night.