Bleak future for late night hosts as viewers complain about same old anti-Trump gags

Woke precocious nighttime hosts person revived their bushed anti-Trump jokes arsenic helium begins his 2nd presidency - and viewers are already bored.  

'Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and similar Martin Luther King, I besides had a dream,' Seth Meyers said connected the acceptable of NBC's Late Night. 'I mean, it had to beryllium a dream, right? It's excessively weird to beryllium real.'

Over connected ABC Jimmy Kimmel told viewers 'Today astatine noon Eastern, our long, nationalist nightmare was officially sworn in... a 2nd time.'

Jimmy Fallon, meanwhile, mockingly donning a Melania Trump-styled hat, elicited a premix of boos and cheers at the specified notation of Trump's name.

'After this we're going to play who wore it better, me, Melania, oregon the Hamburglar,' Fallon said of the caput covering. The McDonald's gag had been making the rounds connected societal media for hours by that time, with fewer who watched apt to beryllium amused by Fallon's stale observation. 

He past joked, 'We're each united, that's large to know' - earlier likening Trump's 2nd word to Netflix's 'Squid Game.'

Stephen Colbert, the apical canine successful a fading field, told his unhappy attendees, 'Don't boo - vote,' earlier adding, And if possible, bash that respective months ago.'

But viewers took to societal media to kick the Trump-bashing felt bushed and reheated, sparking concerns the hosts' teetering ratings could instrumentality a immense deed if they don't freshen up their material. 

One, called Casper, wrote: 'Sad these comedians went from being comic to being irrelevant, Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert, and Jimmy Kimmel. 

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Ultramaga Hillbilly said of Fallon's hamburglar gag: 'I privation the precocious nighttime shows were comic similar they were 40 years ago.'

Onegringo said: 'Cheap laughs astatine best. Go figure.'

3rkBradford said: 'It lone took 27 writers to travel up with that classic...'

Melanie the Barn Owl asked wherefore nary of the hosts had thing to accidental the clip a 71 year-old Jill Biden donned fishnet benignant stockings.

And Gary Goldstein focused connected the linear shows' dwindling bottommost line.

'In 2017, Fallon had 2.6 cardinal viewers,' helium began.

'This twelvemonth helium averages 1.3 cardinal viewers. He's mislaid fractional his assemblage and is apt bleeding advertizing gross arsenic a result. He is virtually spitting into the wind.

Despite the assemblage fatigue, Stephen Colbert appears to deliberation his viewers are hopeless for much of the aforesaid Trump takes. 

'I bet, heavy down, you're feeling benignant of bully because, with Trump coming back. the jokes constitute themselves,' Colbert quipped connected Monday .

'And I conscionable privation to say, if you don't similar the jokes tonight, it's not our responsibility - the jokes wrote themselves.'

The comic who categorized Joe Biden's inauguration arsenic a 'return to normalcy' 4 years went connected to give his full monologue to the inauguration, successful what was possibly a hint of however helium and different hosts volition grip the Trump presidency.  

Colbert had his ain instrumentality connected Melania's outfit, likening her to video crippled quality Carmen Sandiego and a comic publication villain.

There was small archetypal connected Kimmel, with the big making the aforesaid Carmen Diego gag and comparing Melania to Al Capone. 

All Monday's precocious nighttime hosts railed against Trump backer Elon Musk, who insists his X societal media network's 213 cardinal users makes it a acold much almighty media outlet than immoderate TV show. 

Meyers, connected his program, joked that Trump's swearing-in ceremony, moved indoors due to the fact that of the cold, saw his regular supporters 'left retired successful the acold portion Trump gave toasty, VIP seats to the affluent tech oligarchs.'

He added it however was 'even weirder to spot Democrats, who correctly called Trump an existential menace to democracy, palling astir with him,' putting peculiar accent connected the connection contemporary.

Other viewers were near rolling their eyes and reaching for the distant astatine the gags.  

'Sad these comedians went from being comic to being irrelevant,' 1 X idiosyncratic said, singling retired Meyers, Colbert, and Kimmel successful particular.

'Whatever he's getting paid, the web deserves a refund!' different said of Fallon, successful effect to video of him parading astir mocking the archetypal lady.

'Mainstream quality media and precocious nighttime speech shows with 1 ft successful the grave,' yet different griped, arsenic idiosyncratic other simply tweeted retired a bid of 'Z's to bespeak they were sleeping.

Meanwhile, headlines implicit the past respective years person called attraction to the genre - successful a mode much pronounce than immoderate different amusement format - is struggling. 

Late past year, the programme erstwhile manned by the precocious Carson chopped its docket to conscionable 4 days a week.

Advents specified arsenic streaming person made things worse, and ratings declines person already been noticed successful the archetypal afloat week of shows since the election.

Just past week, numbers shows Greg Gutfeld‘s precocious night-styled Fox alternate attracting the largest mean nightly assemblage of the battalion - thing unthinkable a decennary ago.

The pronounced displacement successful assemblage shows who's watching web TV - and however millions of Americans are seemingly fed-up with the besides comparatively caller improvement of hosts offering up opinion-based content.

As the past fewer nights of precocious nighttime and primetime TV appeared to indicate, that trends seems acceptable to continue.