A brand new examine from the Media Analysis Middle discovered that 81% of all political jokes advised on main late night time comedy exhibits in 2023 focused conservatives.
The media watchdog analyzed every of the 9,518 political jokes advised between six main day by day late-night exhibits from January 3 by means of December 22, 2023, and located that 7,729 of them took goal at “somebody or one thing on the correct aspect of the political spectrum.”
The exhibits analyzed have been ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Stay!,” Comedy Central’s “The Day by day Present,” NBC’s “Late Night time with Seth Meyers,” NBC’s “The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon”, CBS’s “The Late Present with Stephen Colbert” and “The Late Late Present with James Corden” (till its cancelation in April).
MRC additionally put collectively a video of a few of the “worst late night time moments of the yr” to showcase a number of examples of late night time comedy’s bias towards conservatives.
Breaking down the info additional, the watchdog discovered that some exhibits have been extra aggressive in the direction of right-wing topics than others. Kimmel’s present had the best price of anti-conservative jokes for a single present out of the six.
Of the two,215 political jokes made on “Jimmy Kimmel Stay!,” 1,960, or 88% have been directed at conservatives. Of the political figures Kimmel roasted, 94 of them have been on the correct, and solely 37 have been on the left, with 11 geared toward non-partisan figures.
Kimmel roasted former President Trump 762 instances and dinged President Biden 164 instances whereas Vice President Kamala Harris was solely made enjoyable of as soon as. He joked concerning the three eldest Trump youngsters a mixed 101 instances in comparison with hitting Hunter Biden 9 instances.
Second place for general price of jokes hammering right-wingers belonged to Colbert’s present: 1,655 jokes out of the entire 1,918 jokes blasted conservatives, which comes out to 86%.
Solely 219 jokes on Colbert have been directed on the left, and 18 at non-partisan figures. The Late Night time present host made enjoyable of each Trump (385) and former Rep. George Santos (262) greater than twice as a lot as Biden (119), with Harris once more solely receiving one joke made at her expense.
Hunter was the goal of the identical variety of jokes as Ivanka, two, whereas the Trump brothers mixed for an extra 40 jokes.
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Meyers’ NBC present was in third place with 84% of the political jokes being anti-conservative (2,050 out of two,445 jokes). Solely 355 of the present’s jokes focused the left all yr. And of the highest 10 political folks Meyers roasted this yr, 9 of them have been conservative – together with Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., with Biden being the one leftist in that set.
Subsequent up within the rating was “The Day by day Present.” MRC discovered that of the 1,277 political jokes it advised in 2023, 1,002 – or 78% – have been anti-conservative. Lower than 1 / 4 of the jokes have been anti-leftist, at 231.
As for the number of “Day by day Present” visitor hosts, MRC calculated probably the most anti-conservative was actor and liberal activist John Leguizamo. Leguizamo advised 66 political jokes throughout his time internet hosting the present, with 65 of them slamming right-wing topics.
Fallon’s NBC present got here in at 5 on MRC’s record. The host advised 1,416 political jokes, with 929 of them slamming conservatives (66%). Fallon had a extra even break up than his late night time colleagues when it got here to mocking conservative figures.
The watchdog’s examine acknowledged, “Fallon poked enjoyable at 196 distinctive targets, 103 of whom have been on the correct, 85 of whom have been on the left, and 18 of whom have been non-partisan.”
James Corden’s CBS present, which solely lasted 4 months into the yr, rounded out the record, with 134 political jokes out of 245 geared toward conservatives (54%). The examine discovered that the “Late Late Present” was distinctive among the many contenders “in that he advised extra jokes about Kamala Harris (2) than Mike Pence (1) and extra jokes about Hunter Biden (1) than the Trump children (0).”
