In the crosshairs of outrage: Roseanne, Kathy Griffin and now Kevin Hart. Comedy's shifting red line
Politics are a joke, and right now, more folks want to laugh than cry over the state of the union.
For proof, look no further than the unlikely ratings success of "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert," and on a platform designed in a much tamer, apolitical era. Colbert has trounced the competition thanks largely to his eviscerating political humor - a talent that, in any other era, would have alienated more viewers than it attracted.
And when ABC's Jimmy Kimmel began spending more time on his own show lampooning D.C.'s drainless swamp, his show went from amusing background viewing to a water-cooler event. People even began to notice that Seth Meyers had a late-night show (it's coincidentally called "Late Night With Seth Meyers") when Trump took
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