I miss the days when late night shows were about jokes and talking to interesting people and people in the entertainment industry. Except for Corden (who is quitting to be no doubt replaced by someone else who just has to mention Trump 25 times every segment like the rest of clones), they now are all just copying Jon Stewart's Daily Show....poorly. Colbert, ironically, is the worst. At least Noah is doing it from the appropriate place.
I agree. Jon Stewart's Daily Show was really something special, he had a gift for getting right to the heart of the insanity and not getting sidetracked by details and sideshows and moral outrage and bulls--t. So many times you'd watch Stewart and he would just, like, nail it. The current late night hosts all doing their goofy Trump impressions and treating him like a stupid joke, only to switch on the "very serious moral monologue" voice at the appropriate time, and then undercut it with a joke, are predictable and boring and never really get anything substantial or memorable... and most of all... they're not funny. Stewart was really funny.
The Colbert Report was really good for this too, but it was very much a product of its time and ended at the right moment, maybe even a couple years too late. I tried showing some greatest hits of the show to my girlfriend, who doesn't remember as much of the Bush Admin or the phony moral outrage era of the early Obama years, and she just didn't really get it.
