NewsBusters reported that five late-night comedy shows uncorked almost 6,000 jokes against Donald Trump to about 1,100 about Joe Biden (and only 92 about Kamala Harris). All this allegedly hilarious hostility failed to prevent Trump from getting re-elected.
Our comedy analyst Alex Christy has crunched all the late-night numbers and analysis of the Keystone Cops of comedy. Alex routinely fills a large spreadsheet of jokes, because we take late-night comedy very seriously.
A study of five late-night comedy shows found that these TV comedians told a total of 13,676 political jokes, of which 11,226 (or 82 percent) were directed at someone or something on the conservative side of the political aisle,
The shows: ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen…
