That Venzuela segment was, rightly, condemned as the worst of that sort of late-night comedian chat-show propaganda and he should never be allowed to forget it.

However, he did this recently, and the fact that it appeared on US TV at all is pretty astonishing. It is almost like an E.I. video (obviously not really but relatively, compared to the normal coverage allowed on these shows).

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AS for Jon Stewart, he was one of the good guys for a long time, but he is a perfect demonstration of how just the fact that you are in that position alters what you can say and shows how the filters come into play immediately, even on light entertainment. Since coming back to the chair (why he did that I don't know, he earned more than enough money to do whatever he wanted, champion whatever causes he wanted) he has been on steady downward slide, regressing to the mean of the late-night supposedly edgy talk show host. They let him have his first couple of come-back shows being as edgy and truthy as he wanted to be, but then (from what I've seen in passing) it's back to the norm. Sad really. He's much better than that.

The worst fall of all of them is Colbert (unless Maher is in the converstation and he's always the bottom of the pile). I'm starting to think he (Colbert) was always a reactionary, establishment hack and was only acting before, rather than now so it's more a reveal/unmasking than a fall.

Also, Samantha Bee is a toxic tnuc and hands down is the worst of the lot (but that's obviously sexist and I'm only saying that because she's female...apparently). She did her duty savaging Bernie and there was something else that she did that really turned me against her a few years ago but I can't dredge it up right now.

I don't regularly watch any of these people though and they are only comedians in the sense that they have comedians writing for them.