handsome set of ginsu steak knives. piscopo said back then, late night hosts did not attack. johnny carson, he would always joke about nixon. you re not going to lend me your makeup man, are you? he would joke about gerald karif, b kari ford. the tonight show jay leno kept it light. a lot of people think because of the kiss at the convention. leno, was, you can t tell how i vote. you have no idea how i vote from listening to me. even david letterman, the master of stinging insults, held back. does it bother you i m always yakking about stuff? no. i m glad you re saying my name. if you press david, what do i know? i don t know anything, i m an idiot who tells jokes.
sense of the constant news. it s time for breaking crazy. he s going as in depth as he can. the line between late night comedy and news reporting is so thoroughly blurred, people want a kind of a front line style late night show. 2016 has been an uncommonly [ bleep ] year. what viewers want, they get. and plenty of it. coming up, the daily show descendents. were you telling the president about putin. go. do you really see a jon stewartization of late night. it was really pushed along by the donald trump presidency. american legion trump, respectful and strong. we have to get going. i don t want to go. and later, the ever expanding landscape of late night. you re the president of the united states. let s go. does waiting around trying to protect your house from a lighting strike give me the same rush as being golfball-sized hail?
pushes his jaw forward and does this mussolini sort of turn. anthony got his start at new york improv clubs. we would never plagiarize michelle obama. which is where he realized he did a pretty good trump. you re performing at ucb and then you pitch this at comedy central. the pitch was he s bored at the white house but always wanted a tv show. i think it s important to show who s being nice and who s being not nice. the president show was born. i m the president. can you believe it? airing once a week it looks like a real late night talk show. with celebrity guests and banter with trump s sidekick, vp mike pence. you know what? get out of here. get him out. i don t want to talk to you
who would you say is the toughest on trump? colbert has been the most savage in his attacks. i m the most unpopular president in modern history. i ve deepened america s racial divide. we are on the brink of thermonuclear conflict. it s got to be the pink tie, right? other hosts are making equally if not more substantive critiques of the president. trump s trust in breitbart actually goes way back. every time we see john oliver once a week, they ve spent a full week preparing what are essentially investigative reports. holding up a breitbart article does not make you seem more credible. oliver, a daily show vet, has earned the rep of being one of the sharpest political satirists on late night. he devotes a huge chunk of hbo s last week tonight to fact finding. the press is going to be a key element in helping us sort
you don t have that temperature difference, jim, to trigger a lot of that lake effect snow. the problem is, this likely won t occur until monday, which means any moisture that comes in until that point is going to add to that snow they already have. allison, thank you very much. thank you for watching 360. the cnn special report late night in the age of trump starts now. the following is a cnn special report. buckle up, because i m coming in hot! this is going to be a crazy one. every day, there s something nuts. you re not the potus, you re the blotus. wait, how long does this wall have to be? he s the most mocked man in america. that is the problem with the media. monopolizing late night. it s hard not to feel like you re being redundant. kim jong-un as rocket man. kim jong-un, rocket man. kim jong-un as rocket man. dominating snl. such a nasty little