Under Trump,the stakes have been raised – and Samantha Bee, Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert have been main the way to seize on the presidentThe most reactive facet of the most reactive form of favorite media, and the very idea of late-night TV arose from a need for instant commentary on the day’s events unencumbered by journalistic scruples. The likes of Carson,Leno and Letterman transcended their roles as talk-show hosts when sinking their incisors into that night’s top stories, taking potshots at the left and right as needed. But in recent weeks, and as the full enormity of the threat posed by a Trump administration has advance into view,there’s been a shift in the tenor of late-night’s monologuing. What was once innocuously political has become more urgently politicized.
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Source: theguardian.com