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As has beenmuch discussed, bycriticandcomedianalike, Trump is bad for comedy.
Trump isnt funny because Trump isnt relatable.
Like a late-seasonSeinfeldepisode, the plots are contrived and the protagonists are needlessly cruel.
Tell similar jokes, is what.
Instead, a few leitmotifs ran throughout late nights first week back from summer vacation.
with regards to theanonymous op-ed.
On Colbert Wednesday night, it was the resistance coming from inside the house.
On Fallon, it was fake news.
Multiple hosts noted the absurdity of not invoking the 25th Amendment to unseat Trump.
The op-ed writer felt it would be too messy, and possibly cause a constitutional crisis.
But you cant use the Constitution to create a constitutional crisis.
But lodestar is a word used by many evangelical Christians.
There is no way Pence wrote the op-ed because there is no way Mike Pence is anyones conscience.
They are not different.
Maybe thats why Jimmy Kimmel thinksits Jared Kushner.
Its not the greatest of sins to have similar joke structures.
Chuck Klosterman once wrote that important things are inevitably cliche, but nobody wants to admit that.
He also wrote about how much Kiss rules, but this time hes right.
Hesitance to use the 25th Amendmentislike someone refusing to break glass in the case of an emergency.
The call for resistancewascoming from inside the White House.
But that doesnt explain why three shows after all three were on hiatus!
highlighted the same story about a Kuwaiti fishmonger glueing googly eyes onto his fish.
That is truly baffling.
