After a strike-shortened 2023, 2024 was a busy year for the late night comedians. During the last year, the men of late night told a total of 13,676 political jokes, of which 11,226, or 82 percent, were directed at someone or something on the right side of the political aisle, an MRC study has found.
From January 8 through December 19, MRC analysts analyzed all five of the daily late night talk shows: Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Late Night with Seth Meyers, and CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
A complete breakdown of all 13,676 jokes can be found here, but detailed below is a summary of all five shows, both collectively and individually.
Late Night 2024 Findings: 768 Episodes
Of the remaining jokes, 2,295 targeted the left and 155 were directed at people,…
