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NOTE: This blog’s editing tool, “Word Press”, just keeps getting worse and worse. It ate the lede, literally, for this piece. We’ll try again. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ll cop to a certain amount of Schedenfreud<\/em>, watching the array of reliably “progressive” and utterly un-funny late-night talk shows sinking beneath Greg Gutfeld. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four years of Donald Trump made conventional late-night “comedy” indolent and lazy. Writers – many of them not very funny to begin with – seemed to think anything with Trump in the punch line would earn ’em a laugh. The “A-list” “talent” hosting these affairs – dismal talking heads like Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel, whose careers peaked at parodying “Red” media and watching women jumping on trampolines, respectively – aren’t helping much. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And few stories of of this decline make me happier than Trevor Noah’s Daily Show<\/em>, which traded the (relative) wit and charm of Jon Stewart for…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…well, Trevor Noah. I’d normally tell a joke at this point at Noah’s expense, but it seems fitting to remain un-funny. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And between a lame host and “writing” that can’t quite find, well, any traction in any way, the Daily Show <\/em>is sinking fast. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cDaily Show\u201d host is as reliably progressive as his peers, although he occasionally will smite his own side<\/a> (at least far more than Colbert or Jimmy Kimmel). Still, his show\u2019s most recent ratings snapshot isn\u2019t bad<\/p>

It’s abysmal<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

“Abysmal” may be charitable:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

#Shrug. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How bad has it gotten?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Late Night TV Rankings Nov 1-7

1\u20e3@GutfeldFox<\/a>! @GregGutfeld<\/a> – King! of Late Night!
2\u20e3@StephenAtHome<\/a>
3\u20e3@JimmyKimmel<\/a>
4\u20e3@JimmyFallon<\/a>
5\u20e3@BWilliams<\/a>
6\u20e3@BillMaher<\/a>
7\u20e3@Nightline<\/a>
8\u20e3@SethMeyers<\/a>
9\u20e3@JKCorden<\/a>
\ud83d\udd1f@IamJohnOliver<\/a>
#11 @IamSamBee<\/a>
#12 @DonLemon<\/a>
#13 @TrevorNoah<\/a>
#14 @cthagod<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/EqL60VeDjK<\/a><\/p>— RoadMN (@RoadMN) November 9, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote>