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Perfect website TV Tropes named this phenomenon theBrown Noteafter the alleged tone that will make someone shit their pants.
The news has become a Brown Note, and its affecting our late-night hosts.
Should America go tits-up, hes 15 minutes away from a saner country.
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It makes sense that late-night hosts are heavily impacted by this insanity-causing administration.
First, they watch more news than most to get to mock it.
But more important, late-night hosts all see themselves as the last scion of Carson: Americas funny uncle.
Talk-show monologues are supposed to be a report on the monoculture.
But there is no common consensus in America anymore.
We cant even agree on the basic definition of words or what the weather is like.
Sanity slippage might account for why Stephen Colbert is clinging tolol Trump is gay for dictatorsjokes.
Surely a sane man would have cut that shit outa while ago.
His feeling of defeat, bordering on nihilism, pervades even celebrity interviews.
He clearly sucked at both.
Everyone is coping as best they can.
Jimmy Kimmel threw his hands up in resignation and declared that wed be better off with achimp as president.
The segment could have been slamming any number of political comedians.
Why, in the words of write-ups everywhere,eviscerateyour mentors?
Trump jokes hurt to make.
Every week is like this!
Each day you think it couldnt get worse, and then, it invariably does.
Children arejumping out of cars, gleefully, as a meme!
Perhaps Jimmy Fallon has the right idea by just regressing into absurdity and nostalgia.
Lets all let Charlie Puth sing us back into the 90s.
Maybe well never have to come back.
