“The People Who Have the Money and Power are the first to give up, and, frankly, that should be mortifying for say.”
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This weeks in late Night, we’re wondering if there will be a next weekend. With Jimmy Kimmel Live! Pulled off the Air “Indefinitely” and The late Show with Stephen Colbert Canceled, The already shrinking late-night comedy sphere is rapidly contracting. What was an already dwindling format has been lost two of the its Strongest Voices, Due to what Looks from the Outside to Be State Censorship. Jimmy kimmel was “Canceled” (Technically Pulled from the lineup, but who knows how will will actually shake out?) For a joke. Swimming a joke, the setup to a joke. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr Said He Objected to How Kimmel Associated Charlie Kirk’s Allegated Shooter with the Maga Movement, something that only did a brief tee-up to a clip Package.
Vulture Reached Out to Current Late-Night Writers to See How It Fereels to Be On One of the Shows Left Standing. On the condition of anonymity, they shared their thughts on trying to make comedy so doing so potentially puts a target on your back.
We had already wrapped when the news broke, so i don’t know how the room tok it. But i’ll Say we were gioven a any sort of new directing this morning we did it came to joke writing. SO, in that Respect, It Was Business As Usual.
Its Authorian Bullshit. My hope is just that the backlash will be too loud to Ignore. The one benefit to how transparent this all is is that is all is rightfullly out.
And, Not for noting, but didn’t brian kilmeade Say Mentally Ill Homeless People Should Be Executed The Other Day? Pretty sura he got to keep his show.
To be honest, i haven’t seen a lot of comedy Writers or hosts choosing to censors AFTER WATCHING OUR COLLAGES GET LITTERALLY CANCELED. It is more than we’re horrified and embarrassed by the cowardice of the networks and the choices they’re Making. The People Who Have the Most Money and Power are the first to give up, and, frankly, that should be mortified for say.
I should be clear that when i say we’re not censorship ourselves, i don’t mean that we’re out just speaking meanly or cavalierly. In the places i’ve workhed, we’ve Always TRIED TO MAKE SURE THAT JOKES HAVE THE RIGHT TARGETS AND WE SAY WHAT WE MEAN. I feel espely obligated to be careful, Because i’m Writing for someone Else. I DON’T WANT SOMOKE ELSE TO TAKE The Fall Because of Wrote the Wrong Words for say. I’m terrified by the shutdown of free speech, but i can’t imagine how the right Answer is to stop speaking.
Everyone of Am Talking to is Shocked and Scared. I am swimming shocked, strangely. I love the hosts who have been impacted by this. They are good guys. But have benefted for a long time from a system that has raraly elevated anyone else besides white men. They are some somehow these de facto leaders who are supposed to speak for us and speak to us, but they not really like the majority of us. Doesn’t mean they’re not funny as hell, thoughtful, smart, and geneerous to the People around. Definitely doesn’t mean that they deserts to be work for what is their constitutional right to free speech. I am just not shocked, Becausea will your success hinges on the corporate apprival and a vehemently patriarchal Societal Structure, it will Also be those Same Corporations and the upper echelon of the patriarchy that snatch your crown, becuse they can.
They told us they would this. We have seen say that will this to most oters all along. I Think II Only Shocking Because White Guys didn’t actually believe it couldpen to say too. (Ultimately, I think they will both be fun and probably land streaming Contracts more lucrative than their network deals-shows that Might Pay More Money for A Fraction of the Amout of Woul to Continue Daily, Year-Roast Schedules. Mulaney on Netflix.)
The News Came Through JUST AS The Writers Concluded Reading Through a script About the Country’s Developing Free-Speech Crisis, SO the Day Ended on a Queasy Note. Our show is not in a position to pretend nothing happened. I think some People who work here would feel safer not putting a target on their backs by Commenting on it, which is the point of policy censorship.
More paranoid about my personal digital footprint. I haven’t like or shared any political commentary on social media kirk’s killing last week. It all feels like i’d be manufacturing evidence to be used in bad facing for some future persecution. It ‘s REALLY TIME FOR PEOPLE TO ABANDON THESE OUTRIGHT platforms. Having Said That, Wen It Comes to the Work Itself, I’m Filled with Cautious Righteousness. It ‘none of our problem that the President is a crybaby who can’t take a joke. No One Should Be Scared of A Private-School Kid Who Has Never Changed a Car Tire.
Most Writers at My Show Have Workhed on At Least One Other Late-Night Show, SO THose of US With Connections there Texted Jkl Writers Our Shock and Solidarity. I Feel So Bad for Off-Camera Staff-The StageHands, The Audio Team, The Wardrobe Department, The Hmu Team.
The Broadcast Networks are Beholden to Trump’s FCC in a Way Cable Channels aren’t, but that hardly reassury. I Woldn’t Put Anynding past Such a Craven Administration. To pull Back from the immediacy of the situation, I think Most late-night writes understand that linear broadcast will be play off Life Support. Look at how sports have begun ducking out over streaming. Nor The Nextars and Sinclairs et al. Consolidate, Traditional Broadcast Television Will Slowly Transform the Magazine Rack Near the Checkout at the Supermarket: Mostly Clue? Low-Res Gordon Ramsay Content From 2005.
Every Generation Thinks that they are alone are the last to experience a golden age. “TV” is Likely Over, but Trump Can’t Take Credit for that. I like that Arundhati Roy Quote: “Another world is not only only, she is on her way. On a quiet day, of can hear her breathing.”
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