The 2026 field of Democratic Senate candidates offered up plenty of material for the late night comedy shows to work with, but, according to a new NewsBusters study, the four regular late night shows told only seven jokes about them during the fall campaign. In all, 87 percent of jokes about Senate candidates were directed at Republicans.
From September 8 through October 29, MRC analysts analyzed the four daily late night talk shows: Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Late Night with Seth Meyers.
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