Late Night

The late-night comedy scene has been reliably liberal for a long time, but the 2022 midterm election was a regular messaging machine for the Democrats, a NewsBusters study has revealed.

MRC analysts found that during the fall campaign, from Labor Day through the Monday night before Election Day, liberal guests outnumbered conservative guests 46 to 0.

From literal alarms over abortion to satirical Christmas songs to the typical anti-Republican diatribe, the men of the late night comedy shows used their Monday programs to deliver one last pitch to voters on why they should vote Democrat.

As campaign season enters the home stretch, the hosts of late night have gone into full DNC TV mode. On Thursday, Seth Meyers and Stephen Colbert managed to tell the exact same anti-Herschel Walker joke while Jimmy Kimmel fear-mongered over what might happen to women if Republicans win by introducing the Birth Con Troll.

NBC Late Night host Seth Meyers thinks that inflation is a conspiracy theory and that gender confusion is apparently no big deal because that was the argument behind all the candy-related satirical headlines on a Wednesday segment dubbed “Fox News’s Halloween Fearmongering.”

When Vice President Harris went on Monday to appear on NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers she was not asked how the administration plans to tackle inflation or raising gas prices, but rather she was invited by the namesake host to urge viewers to vote on the issue of abortion.

NBC Late Night host Seth Meyers welcomed Sen. Bernie Sanders on to his Monday-taped show to discuss the midterms, how his socialist policies make him an economic genius, and how much Meyers appreciates him. Naturally, there was also plenty of trashing of Republicans and warnings of aspiring authoritarians.

Hillary Clinton took her Apple TV Gutsy promotional tour to the Thursday-taped edition Late Night with Seth Meyers on NBC where Meyers wondered why Republicans are such hypocrites on classified materials. The routine repeated itself on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Friday morning with host Willie Geist wondering the same thing.

The trio of Chelsea Handler, Seth Meyers, and Stephen Colbert continued their lamentations at the downfall of Roe v. Wade on their Thursday night and Friday morning shows. The trio did everything from rage at random Twitter accounts, give the Supreme Court an “F” grade, and invited Justice Thomas to “suck it.”

Day two brought a drop in the quantity of post-Roe lamentations from the self-styled comedians of late night, but the lousy quality of legal analysis, civic understanding, and promotion of abortion as a social good continued on Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning.

NBC host of Late Night Seth Meyers reacted to the demise of Roe v. Wade by turning his Monday show into an advertisement for Planned Parenthood, while Comedy Central’s Trevor Noah used The Daily Show to say that the justices are “full of shit.” NBC’s other late night host, Jimmy Fallon, was less bitter, but still lamented the Court is not in tune with public opinion…

Most people would consider record-high energy prices as evidence that President Biden needs to reverse his policies, but NBC’s Late Night host Seth Meyers is not most people. On his Monday-taped program, Meyers encouraged Democrats to double down and pass the Green New Deal while also sarcastically apologizing for not getting facts about guns correct.

Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, and Seth Meyers used their Thursday show to inform the world that they do not know how doors work as they were responding to a suggestion from Sen. Ted Cruz to limit the number of entrances on school premises in the aftermath of the mass shooting in Uvalde.

For the late night hosts, the school shooting in Uvalde provided them the opportunity to use their Wednesday shows to blame “the gun lobby,” Republicans, and the Supreme Court and to praise Beto O’Rourke’s stunt in the push for gun control.

NBC’s Seth Meyers is not happy at the idea that the Supreme Court might overturn Roe v. Wade and used Wednesday’s Late Night to express his displeasure the Court “is on the verge of erasing a woman's right to bodily autonomy.”