To be fair to both Colbert and SNL, I expect the "Joe is so old that ..." will
become the common late-night trope about him. It's either that or he's too
bland. The mainstream comedians won't go to the senility jokes (and let me
firmly state that I think he has all his marbles), and that doesn't leave a lot
other than trains and touching/getting too close to people.
Sure, it's lazy and uncreative, but it'll be the easiest way to mock the
president, which is these shows' bread and butter, and something that feel they
have to do to avoid the usual pearl-clutching from the right about how they
don't pick on Democrats. When I think back on all the times that the
"ultra-liberal" Jon Stewart tried to both-sides everything, I can only laugh at
that idea.
--Dave Sikula
On Sunday, January 3, 2021, 3:58:00 PM PST, 'Greg Diener' via TVorNotTV
<[email protected]> wrote:
On Sunday, January 3, 2021 at 3:09:29 PM UTC-5 PGage wrote:
Colbert also panders so much to the Bernie Bros that I would not worry about
him running out of material should Trump fade from the headlines; he has a lot
of “Biden is old” and “Biden is not really different than Trump” jokes loaded
and ready to go.
Didn't Colbert fall for the Tara Reade allegations on Biden back in the
spring? I vaugely recall hearing something about that.
Greg
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