Not only did NBC champion Democratic Senators for filibustering for gun control during Wednesday’s Nightly News, they also praise the late-night comedy shows for pushing gun control as well. “They're the funny men and women we turn to when we need to laugh, but there's been little to laugh about in the last few days,” stated host Lester Holt, “And now late-night hosts have once again found themselves straddling the lines between comedians and consolers.”
NBC’s Kevin Tibbles’ report was a love letter to the comedy hosts. “Perhaps it is important for us to watch them grapple with tragedy, too,” he wondered before playing a clip from Samantha Bee’s Full Frontal. “Is it okay if instead of making jokes, I just scream for seven minutes until we go to commercial,” she said in the clip.
Interestingly, Tibbles failed to mention the part of her show where she prayed to God that every member of the NRA was plagued with boils. Nor did he share the part where she declared that she does want to take guns away from innocent people. Neither, of which sound like a person looking to console anyone.
Tibbles also argued that the late-night shows are, “a plea to make sense of the senseless.” He then followed it up with a clip of Conan O’Brain pretending to be the adult in the room, “It's time to grow up, and figure this out.”
But Conan wasn’t talking about having a discussion about what to do. Again, Tibbles failed to reveal the political agenda Conan peddled during his opening monologue, declaring “weapons of war” should not be owned by civilians.