The Year in Late-Night Political Comedy

In 2017, Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers spoke out against Trump and the GOP.

Jimmy Kimmel (YouTube/ABC)
Jimmy Kimmel (YouTube/ABC)

A new article in The Hollywood Reporter recounts the year late night comedy got political. 2017 was the year Jimmy Kimmel became policy-minded, while Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers dedicated more time to the political satirizing they’re known for. Perhaps most famously, Jimmy Kimmel delivered a sincere monologue about health care access and his newborn son’s open-heart surgery in May. Kimmel remained bizarrely central to the GOP’s efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, as Senator Bill Cassidy of the failed Graham-Cassidy created the “Jimmy Kimmel Test,” a test for whether children could be denied care. Colbert and Meyers both made headlines in their condemnations of Trump after the president failed to denounce the white supremacists who marched in Charlottesville.

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