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Late-Night Comics Shy Away from Mocking Kamala

Does anyone remember the good old days when Johnny Carson gently picked on both parties? It’s nothing like that today. 

Our latest NewsBusters study of all the jokes on late-night “comedy” shows this fall found that 98 percent of the jokes about presidential candidates were about Donald Trump, and only 2 percent about Kamala Harris.

The jokes were not gentle, like Trump The Fascist material. Or Jimmy Kimmel’s wife (and head writer) Molly McNearney, telling him to “shut up and go away. Go to Mar-a-Lago, spend all day, every day, cheating at golf and masturbating to Newsmax, and let a competent woman take over.” Molly never got over Hillary losing. 

Our late-night watcher Alex Christy explains just how this remarkable tilt by the “comedians” erupts night after night.

Kamala is mostly off-limits to joke about. There were only 35 to  Trump’s 1,428. Some…

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