Late-night comedy rushes into the Trump era - News Summed Up

Late-night comedy rushes into the Trump era


Between Oliver's return Sunday from a three-month hiatus and Donald Trump impersonator Alec Baldwin's stint hosting Saturday Night Live, this is shaping up to be a big weekend in what has already been a promising start to the Trump era in late-night comedy. A mountain of material"We have to live in [Trump's] world now," said Steve Bodow, executive producer of The Daily Show on Comedy Central. He's not been afraid to bring back his former Comedy Central character and former Comedy Central colleague, Jon Stewart. Fallon, who's been the late-night comedy king from the instant he took over from Jay Leno in 2014, is the one comic clearly struggling in the new era. As Meyers noted, "two weeks into the Trump presidency, and already it feels like two years."


Source: CBC News February 10, 2017 16:18 UTC



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