Vince Vaughn Calls Out Late-Night Talk Shows for Becoming Too Political
Vince Vaughn isn’t a fan of the direction late-night television has gone in recent years.
While appearing on Theo Von‘s This Past Weekend podcast on Tuesday (March 24), the 55-year-old Wedding Crashers actor criticized the programs for becoming “the same show” that are “really agenda-based.”
Keep reading to find out more…“A lot of the late shows have struggled,” Theo initially pointed out. “Because the only person they could make fun of at a certain point was just like white redneck kind of people. And it fucking tanked [ratings].”
Vince agreed, adding, “See, they never get it right. The podcasts have gotten so much more popular with less production, less writers [and] less staff, because people want authenticity. And I think that the talk shows, to a large part, became really agenda-based.”
“They were gonna evangelize people to what they thought, and so people just rejected it because it didn’t feel authentic,” he continued. “It felt like they had an agenda. It stopped being funny, and it started feeling like I was in a f–king class I didn’t want to take.”
The Dodgeball actor went on to attribute the declining in ratings of late-night talk show to them “all [becoming] the same show.”
“They all became so about their politics and who’s good and who’s bad,” Vince said. “Imagine sitting next to someone like that on a f–king plane. You’d be like, ‘How do I get out of this f–king seat?’”
Vince will next be starring in the new movie Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice alongside James Marsden and Eiza Gonzalez, which hits Hulu on March 27. Watch the trailer here!