By Andrew Sanford | News | January 15, 2025 |
My first “beat” on this site was covering the late-night scene (almost FIVE years ago). I’ve been a late-night talk show fan since I was a young boy—often dreaming of having my own show one day—so writing about the folks living that dream was fun (albeit occasionally depressing). I had a lot of respect for all the hosts on air then, so I was happy to cover them. I would also write about James Corden. During that early stint, it set in that I would never host a traditional late-night talk show. For one, I didn’t go to Harvard. Two, traditional late-night shows were dying, and that was before they came under attack from an unhinged maniac who would soon hold the highest office in America.
Donald Trump made no secret of his hatred for the late-night hosts on TV, and they made no secret of their hatred for him. They still don’t. Even during the years when Trump hasn’t been in office, monologues were dominated by jokes about his nonsense. Trump threatened to pull network licenses due to these jokes and was stopped by then-FCC chair Ajit Pai of all people. Now, Trump will have a new FCC chair in Brendan Carr, a shameless bootlicker who has made it clear he’s open to punishing networks for attacking Trump. Now, the soon-to-be president is greasing those wheels.
The other night, the old man ranted about Seth Meyers at 1:24 am, complaining about the host’s jokes about him. “How bad is Seth Meyers on NBC, a ‘network’ run by a truly bad group of people — Remember, they also run MSDNC,” the cranky old bastard wrote on Truth Social. “I got stuck watching Marble Mouth Meyers the other night, the first time in months, and every time I watch this moron I feel an obligation to say how dumb and untalented he is, merely a slot filler for the Scum that runs Comcast. These guys should be paying a lot of money for the right to give these ‘in kind’ contributions to the Radical Left Democrat Party. These are not shows or entertainment, they are simply political hits, 100% of the time, to me and the Republican Party. Comcast should pay a BIG price for this!”
Okay, first, I love that he said he “got stuck” because I believe he’s too dumb/old/useless to know how to change the channel on his cable box (you know he has one). Just a dumb motherf***er sitting there pressing the menu button for twenty minutes, puzzled that it isn’t showing him what kind of hamburger he can order. After that frustration ends, he then starts pressing input because he thinks it will let him talk to the gentleman sitting at a desk and clowning on his dumb ass. In reality, he likely heard that Meyers was dunking on him and wanted to start complaining (I still believe the menu thing though).
What’s worse is, on the night Trump was complaining, that episode was a rerun. He just chose that night to plant the seeds of his upcoming Administration, which seeks to purge non-Republicans in any way possible. The next four years will be about fealty and revenge for a wannabe king who can’t even work his f***ing television. Why would he say he was stuck?! Change the channel, you f***ing moron. I can’t get over that and will be thinking about it long after I’m thrown into the camps for not wearing my I Love Trump button to the grocery store.
Late-night television has been under threat of ending for some time. Now, that end may be sooner, because Trump is going to start coming for them. He’s coming hard and fast and he won’t stop until he’s finished with every host. He’ll try to replace them with sycophants, but he’ll eventually come for them too. Trump is coming, y’all! And there’s no stopping it! He. Is. Coming.
Hard.