Right On! Vince Vaughn Trashes So-Called Comedians With Agendashttps://pjmedia.com/sarah-anderson/2026/03/24/right-on-vince-vaughn-trashes-so-called-comedians-with-agendas-n4951029Vaughn appeared on Theo Von's podcast, "This Past Weekend," this week, and admitted that politics are "part of the job because you’ve got to talk about current events" if you're in comedy, "but you don’t want to become part of a group and feel like you’re a champion for one ideology. You want to make fun of everybody." Amen to that.
Von pointed out that Hollywood is a pretty "liberal place," but Vaughn told him that there was much more to it than that. It's not just about people having their own political views, but "it’s more like, ‘We’re smart and got it figured out, and if you don’t agree then you’re an idiot,’" he said, adding, "There was definitely a culture that if you didn’t agree with these ideas, you were looked at as bad."
The conversation then turned to late-night talk show hosts like Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, and Jimmy Fallon.
"A lot of the late shows have struggled because... the only person they could make fun of at a certain point was white, redneck kind of people... and then everything tanked after that," Von said.
I think that the talk shows, to a large part, became really agenda-based. They were going to evangelize people to what they thought. And so people just rejected it because it didn’t feel authentic. It felt like they had an agenda. It stopped being funny, and it started feeling like I was in a f*cking class I didn’t want to take... But if you look at what happened to the talk shows, and why their ratings are low — it's got only to do with the fact that they all became the same show, and they all became so about their politics and who's good and who's bad. Imagine sitting next to someone like that on a f*cking plane. You'd be like how do I get out of this f*cking seat.
I think Von's comment about late shows' "struggle" refers to jokes about almost all demographic groups being un-PC and thus off-limits. I think, also, that OhBummer! "freed" Prog-inclined "comedians" to unleash and uglify their inner partisan.
BTW and FWIW, when Carson joked about Reagan or Leno joked about GWB, it never bothered me, because I knew they were neither vindictive nor partisan in doing so.
