The bubble of Hollywood has never been more pronounced than it is right now. That is especially true in the exhausting media coverage over Stephen Colbert’s exit from CBS’s The Late Show. Their endless funeral, their caterwauling, their mourning for what was but can never be again is embarrassing by now.
It would be one thing if Colbert’s version of late-night comedy were a show we all watched every night and laughed together about our shared problems, celebrated the culture we shared, and joked about the politics we more or less agreed on, even if we didn’t vote the same way. After all, our late-night hosts like Jay Leno, Johnny Carson, and David Letterman (in the early years) did not take sides.
But once Donald Trump won in 2016, American culture did take a side. They locked themselves away in their own little bubble and decided the rest of us just didn’t matter anymore. This is a story still mostly untold in mainstream media.
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