FUNNY PAGES | JD Vance Has Become the Go-to Joke for Late-night Hosts
For late-night hosts, JD Vance is endless comedy gold
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The conventional wisdom has been that vice-presidential running mates are supposed to add some sort of balance to the ticket, whether that’s geographic or ideological or on some other metrics.
But mostly, for Donald Trump and the Republicans, JD Vance has mostly been a source of cringeworthy embarrassment.
In turn, he’s become a nearly endless fountain of material for the nation’s late-night comedians.
Vance, who has come under scrutiny for demeaning comments about women, also can’t seem to shake a rumor that he had sex with his couch — despite the fact that that rumor apparently is untrue.
The Ohio Republican has become the most unpopular vice-presidential pick in modern political history.
All of which makes for humor ready for comedians to mine on their nightly shows.
Stephen Colbert played a clip of Vance trying to defend Trump’s recent attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris’s racial identity.
“I believe that Kamala Harris is whatever she says she is. But I believe, importantly, that President Trump is right that she’s a chameleon. She pretends to be one thing in front of one audience. She pretends to be something different in front of another audience,” Vance said in the clip.
To which Colbert cracked, “Whereas no matter who the audience is, J.D. Vance is always a sweaty weirdo who, it’s easy to believe, boned a Lay-Z-Boy. Again, no truth to that. No truth. Easy to believe.”
Meanwhile, recently on Comedy Central’s Daily Show, Vance was literally reduced to nothing but a punchline.
Host Michael Kosta was quipping about Trump’s obvious frustration and rage when he joked, “Donald Trump hasn’t been having the best time lately. He’s losing ground in the polls, his opponents are dominating the news cycle, and someone just showed him what JD Vance looks like without the beard.”
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