Despite focusing their sharpest political jokes on President-elect Donald Trump for years, particularly leading up to Election Day 2024, prominent network comedy shows couldn’t derail Trump’s victory.

Late-night hosts Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers and others, as well as the usual anti-Trump suspects on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live,” failed to use their platforms to dissuade voters from supporting Trump in November to help achieve a decisive victory. Some even raised millions of dollars for Trump’s Democratic opponents, but it wasn’t much.

The impotence of their anti-Trump media barrage was so frustrating for these comedians after Election Day that some resorted to cursing and even shedding tears.

KAMALA HARRIS was confronted about not receiving support from Teamsters: “What was her reasoning?”

As has been the case throughout Trump’s nearly decade-long political career, mainstream late-night comics went all-in on pro-Democratic, anti-Trump humor.

According to a recent study by media watchdog group Media Research Center, nearly all political jokes told on each of the five major late-night TV shows at the height of the presidential campaign were aimed at Trump.

These shows included Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” CBS’s “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” and NBC’s “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” and “Late Night with Seth Meyers.” .

The study, released in late October, found that of the 1,463 jokes about Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris in those five shows from September 3 to October 25, 1,428 jokes targeted Donald Trump.

As MRC analyst Alex Christy noted in his report, “That’s a whopping ratio of 40:1, or almost 98 percent to 2 percent.”

Even some of the rare anti-democratic jokes seemed to be toned down by the hosts. When President Biden was still the party’s nominee, NBC’s Meyers tempered a joke about Biden’s age with a disclaimer about Trump’s criminal history.

“As we have made clear repeatedly on this show, there is no comparison between a competent 81-year-old who occasionally shows signs of aging and an insane 77-year-old criminal who claims dead people rigged the election and believes batteries were used Electric boats will lead to shark attacks,” he said in June.

When asked why this anti-Trump offensive didn’t sway the election for Harris, MRC Newsbusters editor-in-chief Tim Graham told Fox News Digital that these anchors were just preaching to the anti-Trump choir and didn’t change their minds .

“The so-called comedians on the late night shows would never harm Trump because their audience is full of Trump-hating Democrats who want to control their Trump-hatred,” Graham said, adding, “Colbert and Kimmel and the others.” sound more like Democratic senators than people hired to make you laugh.

KAMALA HARRIS was confronted about not receiving support from Teamsters: “What was her reasoning?”

The editor-in-chief provided an example of Kimmel bringing out his wife, Molly McNearney, on the Sept. 25 episode of his show to advise Trump to “shut up and go away.”

“Go to Mar-a-Lago, spend all day every day cheating at golf and masturbating at Newsmax, and let a competent woman take over. That’s my advice. That’s my advice. Thanks for listening,” she said.

Throughout the campaign, the long-running sketch show “Saturday Night Live” continued its routine attacks on the GOP candidate. In a sketch inspired by the Trump campaign, the show highlighted the assassination attempts against Trump and, in its Trump impression, emphasized that people love his rallies except when they’re being shot at.

The phrase was played for fun, but the Trump campaign report called it “disgusting.”

The sketch series also ran into trouble because Harris took part in a sketch less than a week before the election. People criticized the vice president and the NBC series for organizing the appearance and not including Trump.

FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr accused the last-minute Harris invitation of being a “clear and blatant attempt to circumvent the FCC’s equal time rule,” adding: “The purpose of the rule is to do just that “To avoid type of biased and partisan behavior – a licensed station using the public airwaves to influence a candidate on the eve of an election, unless the station offered the same time to other qualified campaigns.”

The Trump campaign told Fox News Digital in November that no one from “SNL” had contacted them about a Trump appearance before the election.

In addition to the barrage of jokes against Trump and his supporters, several late-night hosts actively held campaign events and raised funds for the Democratic presidential campaign.

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Kimmel hosted a Biden campaign fundraiser in Los Angeles last June that raised over $30 million for President Biden. Among those in attendance were actors George Clooney, Julia Roberts and former President Obama.

This came less than three months after CBS’ Stephen Colbert took part in a generous, record-breaking fundraiser that brought in $26 million for the Biden campaign.

Kimmel also helped write a DNC fundraising email in September that provided links for recipients to send money to the Harris-Walz campaign. In it, he penned a message that read: “Sorry to break your cold heart, Donald, but I support Kamala Harris for president. I had the privilege of interviewing our Vice President several times. She is a kind, brilliant person and a delightful person who cares deeply about our country.”

Despite all this effort by mainstream comedians to stop Trump, the candidate won a decisive victory over Harris on November 5, causing her supporters to melt away late into the night.

“Well, f—. It’s happened again,” Colbert said during his show after Trump’s victory. “After a bizarre and vicious campaign driven by a desperate need to stay out of prison, Donald Trump has won the 2024 election.”

Fallon appeared devastated by the election results and criticized Trump with a sarcastic dig during his show.

“Yes, Trump’s return to the White House is a huge, historic comeback for someone who literally never left,” he said.

Kimmel told his audience on the Wednesday after Election Day, “It was a terrible night last night.” As he ran through a long list of the many different things that made Trump’s victory “terrible,” the ABC host became emotional and started to cry.

Meyers told his viewers the day after Trump’s victory that something in his “brain went a little broken last night,” and “The Daily Show” correspondent Ronny Chieng told Comedy Central viewers that every one of them who did double that I have citizenship, the other country has to travel there because of America’s “turn towards fascism”.

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