04
Oct
2018
Late night television hosts have shifted from parodying reality to simply reporting it with a veneer of humor.
Not old enough to have lived through it, but if you watch the late night eras between Carson and then now, and you're like, Carson could tell a joke that was devastating. That was like, what? How could you do that? And now Jimmy Kimmel could tell a joke that is just like, oh, that's just reality. Sure. Like the late night host gig is turned from parodying to just like reporting.