Idk comedy on TV is at an all time low imo. Daily Show dude is horrible, Bill Maher is horrible, John Oliver is the worst, Samantha Bee isn't funny, all the late night hosts are garbage, and all identify as staunchly liberal. I don't think it's a coincidence.
If you think about it, that kinda makes sense though. Instead of them all on
The Daily Show like say a decade ago, now they have their own shows (or less of one like Colbert), which is pretty important because they were also
writers for it. And I'm going to suggest that now they're more in the role of Stewart as the editor-in-chief than a regular writer. According to that oral history, after they finished retooling the show from Kilborn's version and got all the now name band correspondents, Stewart often didn't write stuff unless he really wanted it specific, instead he'd give an idea to another writer and then at most he'd edit it
with them otherwise he'd just sign off on it. Then might suggest edits, generally of timing or punchlines, after the rehearsal.
Big reason a lot of them are doing it only weekly (and not even throughout the whole year) and Oliver never expanded into an hour like he originally intended. Which also has ramifications for the style like Oliver doing one big twenty minute segment or whatever.
