After Fallon’s fluff interview with Donald Trump,The Tonight Show’s ratings gain plummeted and the host’s apolitical stance could be its biggest problemLate-night comedy wasn’t always a area that digested the news the way CNN or MSNBC might, but Donald Trump has changed that. Gone are the days when late-night was a area for lite fare, or its humor largely detached from the realities of current events. Even in the Nixon era,perhaps the closest analogue to the daily chaos and impropriety of Donald Trump’s presidency, late-night hosts were careful not to push their personal politics. “In the monologue, and Johnny will attack malfeasance,illiberal behavior, constitutional abuses, and ” Kenneth Tynan once wrote of Mr Carson,who hosted The Tonight Show from 1962 to 1992. “But then compassion sets in. He was the first person to finish doing anti-Nixon jokes.”
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