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Among those cheering loudest at the (presumed) end of Donald Trump’s presidency in the past week were the comedians – Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, John Oliver – on America’s staggering array of late-night shows and the-week-that-was wraps.
Amid footage of singing, cheering and dancing in the streets, they made no pretence of impartiality, Colbert popping champagne, Oliver sharing a stream of text messages from family and friends saying the same thing: It’s over.
But if this really is the end of Trump, what does it mean for comedy?
There were more than 3100 jokes about Trump on late-night TV in the US in 2017, according to research by Robert Lichter, a professor at George Mason University in Virginia. By way of comparison, Bill Clinton inspired around 1700 gags in 1998, the year his sex scandal dominated headlines. Lichter and co-author Stephen Farnsworth reported that this year a staggering 97 per cent of all political jokes
time and the late show called dibs on making fun of libs 70% of the time. says dr. robert lichter, funny name, says just as conservatives get their liberal news from fox, conservatives are getting political humor from nbc and liberals from comedy central. that hurt my head. let s go to the comic host of dogs tonight and see what he thinks. do you think obama is doing a good job for this country? what do you think? i i didn t quite get that. wow. too funny. kind of scary if you ask me. anything about the study surprise you? i want to see robert lichter on parker spiter. that was a good run of words there i thought. what surprised me is it
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