Actor Vince Vaughn joined Tuesday’s episode of the This Past Weekend with Theo Von podcast, where the conversation eventually shifted to the state of comedy and the late night comedy shows in particular. According to Vaughn, the late night shows have gone downhill because they’ve become “agenda-based” and feel like you’re being forced to sit in a class you do not want to take or next to an annoying person on airplane.
The duo was discussing how comedians have become too worried about offending people when Von applied that idea to the late night shows, “I think it’s one of the reasons why, like, I’ve seen a lot—why a lot of the late shows have struggled, because all they did…the only person they can make fun of at a certain point was just like white, redneck, kind of people, and it fucking tanked, and then everything tanked after that.”
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