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    1. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 11 Dec 2018
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      Pinpointing the exact cause of Late Night TV's precipitous decline can be tricky. Yes it's Trump, but not only. It's also that the "Daily Show" sensibility has become the norm; there's nothing edgy about that snark-style anymore. It's just status quo nowhttps://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1072299942490836997 …

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      Late Night TV has become a tedious monoculture that thinks it's subversive because every host hates Trump, but nothing could be less subversive than goofily idolizing Robert Mueller, which these shows do on a nightly basis. They're also not funny. My item: https://spectator.us/late-night-lusting-mueller/ …
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      Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 11 Dec 2018
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      Some have asked how I would propose to remedy this problem. Sadly I'm not producing a TV comedy show. But if I were, I might consider trying to operate from a different comedic premise. That sounds vague, but all of these hosts seem to start from the exact same "first principles"

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        1. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 11 Dec 2018
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          "liberal" or "anti-Trump" don't fully capture the nature of their shared comedic premise. Obviously that's a part. But it's also about clinging to a remnant of 2000s-era snark culture that has no self-awareness of how it's now *by far* the dominant sensibility in the industry

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        1. Slava Zilber‏ @v_zilber 11 Dec 2018
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          A writing stuff including professional media analysts! @FAIRmediawatch https://soundcloud.com/conversationswithslava/social-silence-colonialism-and-fascism-an-interview-with-jon-schwarz … with @schwarz https://soundcloud.com/conversationswithslava/katiehalpersenatorsanders … with @kthalps

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        1. Alice‏ @PrimetimePurity 11 Dec 2018
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          It doesn't help that Colbert is deeply anti-Russia.

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        1. Jerm Hudson‏ @jermhudson 11 Dec 2018
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          TV? You're refering to the cable running from the carb to a 700r4 transmission right?

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        1. Archtype‏ @Archtype 11 Dec 2018
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          ironically, the better comedic premise for now was that of the Colbert Report back then

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        1. Send Her Back‏ @allidoisgetpaid 11 Dec 2018
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          One idea might be, instead of hiring someone like @iamsambee, networks could hire people with comic talent.

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        1. Al‏ @dir_allen 11 Dec 2018
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          Johnny Carson was brilliant because as a kid I watched it and it felt like these were ADULTS having some laughs after the kids went to bed. Loosened tie and a drink. The modern formula is adults feinting being cool kids... the result is moronic.

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        1. Steve Sonneveld‏ @S_Sonneveld 11 Dec 2018
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          I go back to something George Carlin said about there not being any great conspiracy, just people who are educated in the same places and know what's expected of them. These shows all seem to hire writers from mostly Ivy League schools, and the writing reflects an MSM worldview.

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        1. No. You're a Nazi‏ @younaziyou 11 Dec 2018
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          Well that’s not funny at all you’re gonna need to punch that up

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        1. Brian Gooley‏ @BRGooley 11 Dec 2018
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          If you're available, here's my modest proposal: You can be one of the stars of "Honolulu Hellhole", about a group of investigative reporters exiled from the mainland to Hawaii. If I can get @Greg_Palast & @mtracey, & some funding, it's a go.
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        1. Nonsense Muncher‏ @NonsenseMuncher 11 Dec 2018
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          Absolutely no one has seriously asked you how to solve a comedy or TV production problem. When someone says “Hey jerk, why don’t you fix it yourself?” it’s not a question that actually meant to be answered.

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