Vince Vaughn Blasts Late Night Talk Shows for Trading Comedy for ‘Agenda’: ‘Stopped Being Funny’

Vince Vaughn is no longer a fan of late night talk shows.

The Wedding Crashers star, 55, appeared on the Tuesday, March 24 episode of Theo Von’s This Past Weekend podcast when the host said, “A lot of the late shows have struggled, because the only person they could make fun of at a certain point was just like white redneck kind of people.”

Vaughn, who said he now listens to podcasts before bed instead, agreed.

“See, they never get it right,” the Bad Monkey actor complained. “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,” the True Detective alum continued. “It felt like they had an agenda. It stopped being funny, and it started feeling like I was in a fing class I didn’t want to take.”

The pair didn’t name any specific shows during the discussion but, as per the The Hollywood Reporter, the comments seemed to be aimed at the likes of Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers,  all of whom regularly incorporate political commentary and jokes into their monologues, including criticism of Donald Trump.

As the National Enquirer previously reported, Kimmel, who has an ongoing feud with Trump, was briefly suspended in September 2025 following remarks he made about Charlie Kirk‘s murder, with both the president and FCC chairman Brendan Carr calling for his removal. (Carr has also taken aim at Meyers.)

Colbert’s show, which has also been subjected to the president’s ire, was abruptly axed by CBS, who have already removed his photos from their building, and his final episode will air on May 21.

The criticism by Vaughn echoes similar comments made by comedy veteran Conan O’Brien, who spoke at the Oxford Union on November 12, 2025 and warned that some comedians are leaning too heavily on anger and in particularly anti-Trump material, rather than focusing on humor.