You know, I have to admit that watching late-night comedians out of the States is actually pretty useful. I realise that every bit of “news” out of them is exaggerated somehow for effect, but I’m assuming they don’t make shit up. I mean, out of a staid, neutral news reader, the same “news” would be troubling to me, especially when presented as fact, but when it’s presented as, “Can you believe this shit?”, well, it somehow becomes more believable. When you’ve got someone like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. making the news cutting programmes like the inspection of lettuce, and the US has a resulting epidemic of explosive diarrhoea, well, it’s news, and it just makes you shake your head at how fucked the country is. I thank god every day I don’t live under their government, or lack thereof, and I’m sorry for the people that do.
In addition to the comedians, whose job it is to entertain, there are the talk shows. OK, it’s their job to entertain as well, but when they present the same, “Can you believe this shit?” as well, well, it just confirms what you saw on Jimmy Kimmel (for example) the night before! So the next day you’re not finding out that, oh, everything you watched on the comedy shows was all made-up bullshit, you’re finding out that, yes, it was all actually true!