My all timer is COLBERT, ever since he did the WH Correspondents Dinner, and certainly during the political cauldron years of Drumpf.
At that time, MYERS was my fairly distant second.
I sampled Samantha BEE for a short while, and barely Trevor NOAH, but never John OLIVER - but for me their category is of being too predictable, yes to their/our politics but being more like telling us Libs what we want to hear the way Faux does for its wingnuts.
As for Jon STEWART, going back a decade, the change has gone to outright DISLIKE. I started out very favorably with him, then little things started rubbing wrong. I was puzzled/baffled when he went on the old CNN Crossfire and threw some kind of fit, ranting that that aggressive style of polarized debate was destroying the country, his rant leading to the cancelation of that show. I was puzzled but still disposed to keep watching him. A few years later, when Glen becKKK was riding horribly high, and becKKK staged that stupidly weird rally in DC, which was supposed to be a "uniting" thing but was just a window dressed pseudo-religio-wingnut crapfest, it was totally crap time that STEWART staged a counter-event, still with some kind of "unity" cover, that I/Lib thought was going to be a Liberal thing but turned out to be a pseudo-Hippie/renaissanceFair type thing with soap bubbles and the two creeps from Mythbusters. Who was it, MAHER, who said afterwards, "Jon, if you're going to have an event it needs to be ABOUT something."
Fast forward a couple more years and there was STEWART "reaching out" to Bill O'LOOFAH, trying to find "common ground" and talk to each other. After that, and ever since, STEWART has been a total loss for me.
********So, in all this, KIMMEL as late night talk host, was mostly way on the back burner for me, since the politics was hotter with the others. But there's actually history with him. I used to watch him on The Man Show and Win Ben Stein's Money years ago, which will here doubtlessly get me bashed about the head with a 2x4. But despite that I loathed Ben STEIN, I liked how KIMMEL would act like a Border Collie towards him, backhandedly mocking STEIN, and back then CAROLLA didn't seem anything like the horrible wingnut he is now. But on the late night shows, I seldom watched him. But in the past year or so and especially into the demise of Drumpf, I have been putting him in my top slot, even in the politics domain.
*******And actually, my whole watching regime has changed. I used to be COLBERT only. Certainly not FALLON at all. MYERS somewhat. But now I start with KIMMEL at least through the monolog and finding out who the guest is. Then switching by segments from KIMMEL to COLBERT. Also, only watch LIVE shows, not repeats. And skipping hokey man-on-the-street bits and lame game-playing bits.
Never used to watch James CORDEN, now sample tiny in rotation with the rest.
*********Good topic, thanks!
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