Some of you may have wondered about the methods, since there are notable differences between the late night schedule in 2017 and in 1993. >From the Politico article (about the 2017 numbers):The George Mason study >looked at 2,094 jokes told on Colbert's, Fallon's, Kimmel's and Noah's >programs from Jan. 20 through April 29. Now back in 1993, only two of those four shows were around, and Letterman started at CBS about 7 months into the Clinton administration. per the press release on the 'study' that Politico linked to (http://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000015b-d5de-de78-a1fb-f5ffc60c0000) Note: In 1993, 2001, and 2009, the sample of late night comedians/hosts included Jay Leno, David Letterman,and Conan O’Brien. In addition, the 1993 sample included Arsenio Hall, the 2001 sample included Bill Maher, and the 2009 sample included Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and Jimmy Fallon. If the note is accurate, I'm not keen on the underlying data as it's inconsistent about what programs/comedians are counted. Regrettably the Center's website is not the greatest (nor are their PR writers), and I cannot access the data they have been collecting on late night Presidential humor - http://cmpa.gmu.edu/political-humor/
David On Friday, May 5, 2017, 6:24:24 PM EDT, Steve Timko <[email protected]> wrote:Trump was the butt of 1,060 zingers on late-night TV during his first several months in office, higher than any of his prior three processors drew within their entire first years in the White House. Former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton all failed to eclipse the 1,000-joke mark at the end of their first years, coming in at 936, 546 and 440 quips each, respectively. http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/04/trump-late-night-jokes-study-238012 -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
