Personally I like Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.

With his fresh ideas for the format, Stewart “created a new category” in late night, Herzog says. The change in attention to politics has been seismic. “Now politics is entertainment and entertainment is politics.”

This telling seems to puts a chunk of blame for trump's rise on Stewart...

I do feel that while satire should be able to hold those in power accountable, without a functioning news media and justice system, the jokes just numb the pain and normalise the behaviour because everyday it’s expected that the bad people will get dunked on and if they do then the other side got their jab in this fight.

I like The Last Of Us with Pedro Pascale.

People will do any mental gymnastics you throw at them to not blame the people solely at fault: trump voters.

Yeah, it was Jon fucking Stewart.

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Not all of it is deserved...

I like The Last Duel with Adam Driver.

Fox News was doing political entertainment long before the daily show.

First off, Jon is the GOAT, no question.

However I wonder how much the newer correspondents are also helping bring in younger viewers?

Josh Johnson being the biggest newcomer (in 2024). Troy and Grace coming in the year before we're also huge pluses.

Traditional Late Night relies on a single host, perhaps the larger group of hosts and correspondents helps keep things interesting for younger folks.

Jon is absolutely the goat.

I havent had cable in a very long time so I never watched much during Trevor's run.

But Jordan Klepper's segments were some of my favorite videos to watch on youtube

So I thought about Trevor and the correspondents that joined around his time, Desi, Ronnie, Roy Wood Jr, Kosta (a little later) and Klepper (a little before). But the thing is they all joined about 10 years ago, which is also around the time Colbert and Seth Meyers started.

So when we talk about younger demographic and we compare Daily Show vs Colbert vs Seth Meyers, only the Daily Show has had a major change up in the last 2-3 years.

I will say that COVID dramatically changed each of these shows for the better. I think Trevor's best years as host were when he was at home. Trevor felt more relaxed and honest and it just gave the right vibe. Seth and Stephen also had similar transformations, with Seth largely keeping it after the return to a studio and Stephen going back to the more classic "professional" vibe.

Also I agree Klepper is excellent.

I like The Last Unicorn with Alan Arkin