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PEOPLE & ARTS Friday 5 May 2017
Anti-Trump late night jokes coming at a blistering pace

DAVID BAUDER bert’s show Wednesday
AP Television Writer night slightly exceeded the
NEW YORK (AP) — Stephen previous Wednesday — in-
Colbert, whose crude ref- dicating no immediate fall-
erence to Donald Trump out from the Putin joke.
angered some of the presi- “The polarization of poli-
dent’s supporters this week, tics has migrated into the
has lobbed zingers at him polarization of late-night
at the blistering pace of humor,” said Robert Lich-
3.37 a day during the chief ter, the George Mason
executive’s first 100 days in professor who directs the
office. comedy content research.
Trump is on pace to be the “People want to hear jokes
most joked-about president about the politicians they
in late-night television in at don’t like.”
least 25 years, the Center That in itself turns some
for Media and Public Affairs conventional wisdom on its
at George Mason University head: for years many late-
said Thursday. night comics made it a
Colbert, on his show point to be equal opportu-
Wednesday, discussed nity abusers for fear of turn-
the fallout from a Trump ing off one side or another,
joke two days earlier that he said. Trump has been
prompted calls to fire him the target of some 1,060
and boycott the CBS “Late late-night jokes since tak-
Show” advertisers. He said ing office, the study said.
he didn’t regret insulting That puts him on pace to
the president, but that “I In this Aug. 10, 2015, file photo, Stephen Colbert participates in “The Late Show with Stephen Col- beat President Bill Clinton’s
would change a few words bert” segment of the CBS Summer TCA Tour in Beverly Hills, Calif. record of 1,717 jokes in
that were cruder than they Associated Press 1998, the year his affair with
needed to be.” He made Monica Lewinsky was in the
a reference to the male John Dickerson. riod of time, NBC’s Jimmy inauguration and has now news, Lichter said.
anatomy when he said of It was one of 337 Trump Fallon unleashed 231 and won 13 weeks straight. Last Colbert, for his part, isn’t
Trump Monday: “The only jokes that Colbert has ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel 177. week CBS averaged 2.74 taking any pity on the presi-
thing your mouth is good made since the president’s The Trump-battering has million viewers to Fallon’s dent.
for is being Vladimir Putin’s inauguration in January, paid off handsomely for 2.68 million, the Nielsen “He, I believe, can take
c--- holster.” the study said. Trevor Noah Colbert and CBS. The “Late company said. care of himself,” Colbert
Colbert said he was upset of Comedy Central’s “The Show” eclipsed Fallon’s Nielsen’s preliminary rat- said Wednesday. “I have
at Trump for insulting CBS Daily Show” made 315 “Tonight” show in the rat- ings from the nation’s top jokes; he has the launch
“Face the Nation” host Trump jokes in the same pe- ings shortly after Trump’s markets indicates that Col- codes. So, it’s a fair fight.”q

Queen Latifah stars in movie

about Flint water crisis

ROB GILLIES nancial managers, the city Latifah filmed a scene in
Associated Press of nearly 100,000 tapped a hospital room where the
TORONTO (AP) — Queen the Flint River as its water actress playing her charac-
Latifah is hoping that her source while a new pipe- ter’s daughter is informed
role in a movie about the line was being built to Lake that she has had a miscar-
Flint water crisis will bring Huron. But the river water riage.
more attention to what wasn’t treated to reduce “Although (Queen Lati-
she calls one of the great corrosion, allowing lead fah’s character) is a com-
American tragedies of this from old pipes and other posite, it took a lot of peo-
century. fixtures to leach into the ple to make a lot of noise In this April 6, 2017, file photo, Queen Latifah speaks during the
Latifah said Thursday dur- drinking water. to get the word to the right Women in the World Summit at Lincoln Center.
ing filming in Toronto that “There were a bunch of people,” Latifah said. “This Associated Press
American officials includ- people who knew about was a team effort to even
ing Michigan Gov. Rick it and then didn’t do any- other problems in children. States.
Snyder acted for too long thing,” Latifah said be- bring this to light the way Flint switched from a De- Cher was originally sched-
like the water crisis did not tween takes. it should have been, and troit regional water system uled to play the role Queen
exist and that someone The movie follows the story then to counter a bunch to the Flint River to save Latifah has taken on, but
should be in jail for it. of women from Flint who of people in positions of money. The city has since pulled out last month be-
Flint’s water was tainted sought justice for residents power who said there was switched back to the De- cause of what was said to
with lead for at least 18 who were unknowingly no problem.” troit area system. be a serious family issue. The
months, starting in spring drinking and using lead- Lead contamination in “Flint” is scheduled to air movie also stars Jill Scott,
2014. While under the con- laden water. the past has been linked in the fall on the Lifetime Betsy Brandy, Marin Ireland
trol of state-appointed fi- During a visit to the set, to learning disabilities and channel in the United and Lyndie Greenwood.q