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Vince Vaughn called retired late-night hosts for having a governmental “agenda” connected their shows.
“They ne'er get it right,” nan “Wedding Crashers” character said connected Theo Von’s “This Past Weekend” podcast connected Tuesday. “I deliberation that talk shows, to a ample part, became really agenda-based.”
Vaughn, 55, continued, “They were going to [evangelize] group to what they thought. You cognize what I mean? And truthful group conscionable rejected it because it didn’t consciousness authentic. It felt for illustration they had an agenda.”
The “Dodgeball” prima said that late-night shows “stopped being funny” erstwhile they shifted excessively overmuch towards governmental talk.
“It started emotion for illustration I was f–king successful a people I didn’t want to take,” he added. “I’m getting scolded.”
Vaughn didn’t name-drop immoderate late-night hosts, though he appeared to beryllium referring to Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert, who are some outspoken critics of President Trump.
The businessman hasn’t appeared connected “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” since 2015 and has ne'er been connected “The Late Show pinch Stephen Colbert,” which is ending successful May.
The chat astir nan authorities of late-night TV began erstwhile Von, 46, mentioned that nan shows are struggling because nan hosts only make nosy of “white, red-neck people.”
That prompted Vaughn to admit that podcasts person go acold much successful than late-night shows because “people want authenticity.”
“If you look astatine what happened to nan talk shows and why their ratings are low, it’s sewage only to do pinch nan truth of what you conscionable said, which is they each became nan aforesaid show,” nan “True Detective” character said.
“And they each became truthful astir their authorities and who’s bully and who’s bad,” Vaughn continued.
He joked, “And it’s like, ideate sitting adjacent to personification for illustration that connected a f–king plane. You’d beryllium like, bro, really do I get retired of this f–king seat?”
Vaughn identified arsenic a Libertarian successful nan past and is friends pinch Trump, 79.
In April 2025, nan White House shared a picture of Vaughn and nan president successful nan Oval Office.
Three months earlier, Vaughn was spotted taking photos pinch fans at Trump’s Inaugural Starlight Ball.
On nan podcast, Vaughn was asked if he’s ever felt “ostracized” by left-leaning Hollywood.
“I ever sewage on pinch group and effort to beryllium honorable astir who I am,” Vaughn said. “But yeah, there’s times you felt for illustration it would’ve been easier. It’s almost for illustration a profession move.”
Vaughn added that he “has opinions connected some sides.”
“There’s s–t I don’t work together pinch astatine all, and past there’s s–t I don’t work together pinch astatine all,” he said, noting that “nobody wants to beryllium told what to do.”
