Comment Yeah, and Ben Shapiro ignores my advice too!!! (Score 1) 119
Colbert is a professional, and Colbert Report was hilarious, but the long downward spiral of his talk show is enough to give one pause. I’m sure he didn’t write it all but no doubt directed the material, and how could he not see the shift away from actually trying to be funny? We have enough sources to turn to for political adversaries, and what struck me was there always seemed a clear hilarious and non-partisan way to make fun of whatever Trump was doing, but it was also clear to everyone what they put out was incensed political opposition with god-awful attempts at humor taped on top. Let’s not pretend a lot of writers haven’t used major IP avenues to preach their own version of what they believe, rather than what is entertaining. Let’s hope it doesn’t go this route.
His audience loves that. He has a team of writers. The late show is a corporate product, not an artistic one. He's at the helm, but it's less of a reflection of his personal ideas and more what his producers think the audience wants. You don't like it? Well...it has a huge audience...and you're not one of them. It's like Sean Hannity, Ben Shapiro, Guttfeld, the Critical Drinker Twat, etc. Their shows fucking suck and are shittily written...but they have their audiences and they love it.
Guttfeld was unwatchable to me...not because I was upset...but I was just fucking bored. I would probably enjoy well written comedy from an adversarial viewpoint....even if I think you're a shitty person, if you make me laugh...I'll have a guilty pleasure good time. But no, conservative comedy just sucks...it's boring as shit...poorly written, unimaginative...there's a FUCKTON of things to make fun of liberals about and conservatives typically suck at it. The South Park guys were decent at it for awhile...but regardless, the point stands. Gutfeld has his audience. I'm not one of them...he doesn't care what I think and he will tailor his writing to what he thinks his audience wants.
If we discover that he's a huge Miami Vice fan and wants to rewrite the series, I am confident it won't look like his Fox News show.