Actor Vince Vaughn Slams Groupthink of Late Night TV: ‘They All Became the Same Show’
“It stopped being funny and it started feeling like I was f—— in a class I didn’t want to take.”
Actor Vince Vaughn recently appeared on the Theo Von podcast and took some shots at late-night TV shows, along with the host. Vaughn suggested that late-night shows hosted by Colbert, Kimmel, and others have all become the same show. He is absolutely right.
I have heard that Vaughn is a right-leaning libertarian type so this checks out.
FOX News reports:
Vince Vaughn calls out late-night shows all feeling ‘the same,’ becoming ‘agenda-based’ scolding
Actor Vince Vaughn said late-night talk shows have all become the “same” and are too “agenda-based” for people to watch.
“I think that the talk shows to a large part became really agenda-based,” Vaughn said Tuesday. “They were going to [evangelize] people to what they thought. You know what I mean? And so people just rejected it because it didn’t feel authentic. It felt like they had an agenda. It stopped being funny and it started feeling like I was f—— in a class I didn’t want to take. You know? I’m getting scolded.”
The “Wedding Crashers” actor made the remarks on Theo Von’s “This Past Weekend” podcast after Von noted how late-night shows have been struggling after only targeting “White redneck kind of people” in their comedy routines.
Vaughn added that people have likely become more drawn to podcasts over late-night shows for authenticity and to “feel like people are having a real conversation.”
“If you look at what happened to the talk shows and why their ratings are low, it’s got only to do with the fact of what you just said, which is they all became the same show. And they all became so about their politics and who’s good and who’s bad. And it’s like, imagine sitting next to someone like that on a f—— plane,” Vaughn said.
Watch the clip below:
Actor Vince Vaughn calls out late-night comedians, says people like Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, and others have all become the “SAME SHOW.”
“It stopped being funny, and it started feeling like I was in a f*cking class I didn’t want to take.”
THEO VON: “A lot of the late… pic.twitter.com/9gTyBfdWtc
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This is why Greg Gutfeld does so well in the ratings. He is the only alternative, the only host who is doing something different. It’s also part of the reason that Colbert’s show is coming to an end in the near future.
The only people who are still tuning in to watch Colbert and Kimmel are hardcore Trump haters who want their biases confirmed every night.
Late-night TV shows used to be for the enjoyment of the whole country. Colbert and Kimmel hijacked the shows and use them as their own personal soapboxes. They have made it all about them and what they want. It’s so old and stale.
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I blame Letterman.
Too bad we can’t bring back Steve Allen and Jack Paar.
If they could bring back Joe Biden to be president they can bring back Allen, Paar, and Carsen to host late night talk shows.
Johnny Carson & Craig Ferguson were my favorites. Still watch clips of them on YT.
He’s right.
The problem isn’t the late night fools. Their programs can be turned off. The problem is the networks who put them on the air. Their are only echoing what the network executives believe. They are a contemptable lot.
Von has been calling out Hollywood for some time now, David Spade has too. When late night decided to go for “clapter” instead of laughter they stopped being funny and were just so tedious they lost all but the diehard leftists. Strange they didn’t notice that wouldn’t be enough to stay in business
Saturday Night too,
Note that he cannot say, “It stopped being funny and it started feeling like I was a class I didn’t want to take.”
He has to throw in the eff word. I watch a lot of streaming TV and am about convinced that Netflix needs to change their name to Netfux, and Apple TV+ to Apple f****n’ TV f****n; Plus.
I, for one, am f****’ tired of it!
It can be overused. As the awesome comedy due Flanders and Swann once pointed out, “if these words all come into common usage, we’ll have nothing left for special occasions…”
Grizz, I am so tired of the gratuitous use of the “f bomb.”
There is a new pizza place in town that calls itself “The Best F*ing Pizza”. I refuse to patronize the place, but I am sure it will get lots of business from UNLV students who won’t even give the name a second thought.
Just another example of moral decay that follows Man’s understanding. Adam and Eve proved it in Genesis.
Roald Dahl was a master of non-profane disparagement:
“Boggis, Bunce, and Bean
One fat, one short, one lean
These horrible crooks
So different in looks
Were nonetheless equally mean”
Unfortunately, he was also rabid antisemite.
Really? That’s a fu… that’s a real shame.
Well I didn’t like Trump using it , seemed to open the doors to the Dems absolute potty Mouths on a daily basis, but , it is a favorite word of mine, always has been ironically
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It used to be automatic for comedians to be even-handed because why alienate half the audience right off the bat? Carson told topical political jokes every night for thirty years and you could never tell how he voted.
Not only late night. First it was the newspaper Op/Eds then the rest of the paper followed suit; Baltimore Sun and the Washington Post in my area became unreadable. CNN, MSNBC and the broadcast media all went hard left and became the story instead of reporting it. That gave rise to Fox and the battle lines were drawn. Political preaching even made it into the novels of one of my favorite authors (Silva). Actors started pontificating on politics with zero understanding of life outside their bubble of privilege. I was no longer entertained nor informed so I looked elsewhere and tuned out.
Turns out I’m not alone.
Late night shows making fun of current events, for decades, got lots of easy material by simply making fun of whoever was President for whatever was going on that day. Didn’t matter which Party occupied the WH.
Then Obama was elected and it was strictly verboten to make fun of him on pain of death.
There’s no way to have a discussion on this topic without talking about the sea change that occurred in comedy as a result of Obama becoming President.
Everything they are complaining about, correctly, above started then.