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Late Night shows' called 'irrelevant' after bias against Trump, as Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon have no Biden gags

Around 455 jokes were about Trump while only 14 were about Joe Biden

According to the latest survey on the late-night shows, two of the main hosts from US television, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon, have cracked jokes exclusively on President Donald Trump. 

Ninety-seven percent of the jokes were cracked by Colbert and Fallon in September 2020, a study released on Monday, October 19, stated. Around 455 jokes were about Trump while only 14 were about Joe Biden, according to the Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University. These 455 jokes about Trump does not include the other 64 jokes that were targeted at his family or administration.

Robert Lichter, a communication professor at George Mason's who has been studying late-night humor and politics since 1992, said, "When Trump's onstage, everyone else is blacked out." He also found that Republicans are usually targeted more than Democrats by the comedy writers, but the difference has never been this stark. Even though the stats was closest in the 2016 campaign, when Trump was the punchline for 78 percent of the jokes to Hillary Clinton's 22 percent, the center said. "I think they will find a way to keep making jokes about Trump, even after he leaves office," Lichter said. In 2001, late-night comedians made former president Bill Clinton the subject of more jokes than his successor, George W Bush, Lichter observed. 

This isn't the first time that Trump is being the butt of jokes on comedy shows but learning of this survey, social media too had a word or two to say, "Because Trump is the biggest joke, best writer in late night history...try listening to him for five minutes...lol" While another one said, "Telling jokes about the sitting president is as american as apple pie and student loan debt. Same with obama, dubya, or Clinton."

While another one questioned, "Serious question: what universe do you live in where this is worth remarking on? One person is running a vanilla campaign. The other is presiding over a societal and economic disaster whose reelection strategy seems to be channeling someone's crazy great-uncle." Pointing at Trump and Biden, another one wrote, "One gives them hours of material with every word out of his mouth.. the other doesn't... its fairly straight forward."

One conservative complained and wrote, "As conservative, we know the media leans the other way. However, when 97% of late night jokes are about Trump and only 3% are about Biden." While another one slammed Trump and wrote, "Trump's no stranger to mockery. He's been mocked all his life, especially on late-night shows (viz. Letterman). The man was always a joke. The only thing that changed with his illegitimate election was that he became a very dangerous joke."

While some slammed the comedians who make such jokes and wrote, "Got tired of the Trump "jokes" many months ago. There's plenty of other crazy, funny stuff out there....DO YOUR JOBS and make late night enjoyable again. A former fan." While another one said, "Why not? Late night hosts make the same Trump jokes every night and they still call themselves comedians. "Both guys irrelevant. Robbing the networks every night, what a gig!" said one. Replying to a social media user one said: "I agree.I used to watch @jimmyfallon nightly but his “hate night” gags & jokes against @POTUS have grown tiresome.He used to be funny-I miss his show from home, that was funny stuff!"