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Dear Friends,
Christian Toto is a rarity – a conservative entertainment critic. He runs Hollywood in Toto, with film reviews and critiques on Hollywood.
In a guest piece for The Hill, Christian points out the gaping hole in late-night satire right now. Almost no one’s making fun of the Dems.
President Biden, of course, is a one-man gaffe machine, and offers up endless supplies of potential fodder. Kamala Harris and her routine “word salad” statements, could easily be mistaken for a sit-com.
“Instead, late-night monologues pound away at Trump, still, along with Georgia Republican Senate hopeful Herschel Walker, Fox News superstar Tucker Carlson and, of course, the Trump family. The first ‘cold open’ of the new ‘SNL’ season recreated the Mar-a-Lago raid on Chez Trump,” notes Toto.
He rightly argues that stand-alone screwups also deserve lampooning, like the Stacey Abrams interview where she suggests abortion helps families struggling with inflation. Or how about Covid-era politicians eating at fancy restaurants and getting their hair done?
If you’ve scanned the late-night “comedy” shows, you’ve certainly noticed that mentions of politics often becomes serious and preachy, substituting the Democrat narrative instead of injecting humor.
Most television comedians wither at the criticism suggesting they might accidentally help a Republican, and they certainly remember Jimmy Fallon’s 2016 where being nice to Donald Trump was a major controversy.
From Yahoo News:
Jimmy Fallon faced a major backlash after he tousled Donald Trump’s hair in this September 2016 Tonight Show interview.
People took to social media to express their upset that Fallon didn’t bring up Trump’s xenophobic comments and instead joked around with the then-presidential candidate.
Fallon peddled backwards as fast as he could, groveling to the New York Times: “I didn’t do it to humanize him. I almost did it to minimize him. I didn’t think that would be a compliment.”
Once again, Fox News provides some balance
Toto points out that the only person doing the hard work of satirizing the left at this point is Greg Gutfield, and it’s no surprise that his rating are massive, often beating the traditional late-night broadcast comedians.
One guy, to amuse at least half the country with the gaffes of the left.
There’s some funny business going on here. Or not.
— Ken
PS: I talked to Christian on the podcast over the summer, and we discussed Hollywood wokeness and more.
You can watch the full video version of our chat here, as well.
It's one of the many reasons we don't watch late night TV, or any TV really. I'm sick of paying people to tell me what a horrible person I am because I don't believe in "THE MESSAGE"
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