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Its just a funny word, likeguacamole.
To Colberts credit, he went in depth on theAlabama abortion ban, which not everyone has.
And Colbert made a Beam me up, Scotty joke, which is literally a bumper sticker.
More effective were the late-night hosts who let women speak for themselves on the issue.
This is easy onFull Frontal,since the host is a woman.
But Seth Meyers also let his women writers express their fear and pain for themselves.
Cutting real feelings with visual gags is one way to find a balance between news and comedy.
Samantha Bee went a different route, and just wenthamon lawmakers.
There were jokes inFull Frontals abortion piece, but more than anything there was yelling.
Viewers got the vicarious thrill of yelling at a state senator.
Perhaps even more value than a zygote.
Jimmy Fallons audience had a tepid reaction to his Alabama jokes.
Was it because the audience was packed with Howard Stern fans?
A setup to a joke about Sterns politically incorrect and at times controversial persona got a bigger Woooo!
than the punch line that followed comparing him to Trump.
And why would he?
Thats more ofLast Week Tonightturf.
The joke probably would have gone over worse if it had been more biting.
Gender equalityspurs economic growthand can improve quality of life for everybody in a society.
John Oliver and Hasan Minhaj bring deep analysis, domestic and worldwide respectively.
But onlyBusy Philippstalked about her personal experience with getting an abortion, andshe did it last weekto boot.
