Donald Trump Is Winning At Being The Butt Of Late-Night TV Jokes

The jokes are on President Donald Trump. Literally.Trump is on course to become themost joked-about president on late-night television in at least the past 25 years, according to a new study.The Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University counted the number of opening monologue Trump-themed zingers delivered by Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel and Trevor Noah during Trumps first 100 days in office.It found theymocked Trump some 1,060 times.When combined with jokes about Trumps family and administration, the figure soared to 1,530. Donald Trump is head and shoulders above the competition as the politician late night comedians most love to hate, the centers director, S. Robert Lichter, said in a statement Thursday.According to the tally, the 100-day joke total is already higher than the number of quips made about former presidents Barack Obama (936), George W. Bush (546) and Bill Clinton (440) during each of their first 12 months in office.Trump is also on track to easily eclipse the record 1,717 jokes made about Clinton in 1998 amid the Monica Lewinsky scandal and his impeachment, said the center, which has been analyzing late-night TV joke data since 1992.Colbert, whose Late Showratings have spiked during Trumps administration, told 337 jokes about Trump. Noahmade 315, Fallon had 231, andKimmeldid 177.type=type=RelatedArticlesblockTitle=Related Coverage + articlesList=58820c24e4b070d8cad1ead2,5909bb5ae4b05c3976847cd5,590aef62e4b02655f8445c03 -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
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