Media Research Center reviewed every joke told on late-night television from September 3 through October 25. To conduct the study, the researchers assessed 136 episodes of the following five shows:
Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Late Night with Seth Meyers. (The research did not include Gutfeld, which airs at 10 pm ET on Fox News.)
MRC found a total of 1,463 jokes about the two candidates running for president. Of these, 1,428 of the jokes were targeted at Donald Trump. Meaning, just 35 were told about Kamala Harris.
That’s a ratio of 40:1, or almost 98 percent to 2 percent.
“In addition to the 1,428-35 Trump-Harris split, analysts also found that the comedians told 302 jokes about the vice presidential candidates. Of these, 236 were directed at J.D. Vance compared to 66 at Tim Walz. That equates to a 4:1 ratio with 78 percent aimed at Vance,” MRC notes. […]
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