Strike Strike Force Five in the face with heavy objects

Jenny Holland's recent bit on the lame podcast featuring the non-Gutfield comedians who are unable to perform without the little blue pills which metaphorically represent their writing staff is fairly good:

How quickly the once edgy comedians switched from objecting to the government forcing phone companies to hand over citizens’ private information to literally singing the praises of government coercion.

Not funny! Creepy! Condescending!

In this zero-laughs landscape, my expectations for a new podcast called Strike Force Five – featuring Colbert and fellow late-night hosts Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel and John Oliver – were low. And those low expectations were proven correct when the first episode came out this week.

Pathetic pieces of shit with horrible political views trying to lecture is isn't entertaining? I'm shocked. Well, no, I'm not: the reason they aren't performing while FOX News' late night host is of course...

As a way to help the men and women whose witty words make them look good (at least in theory), the five hosts have teamed up for a limited-edition podcast, with all proceeds going to their out-of-work writers.

That’s nice and all. But, as the hosts themselves point out, their writers are the folks who make them funny, so Strike Force Five is a real slog. And without the sets, the band, the audience and the guests, the comedy falls even flatter.

She ties in their vicious attacks on people who (accurately) determined that the COVID vaccines the late night talk shows kept insisting were "Safe and Effective" were in fact not, which is good. There's really only one area where it falls flat, when she compares it with the podcasting landscape:

The mainstream media, fundamentally, is an industry run by gatekeepers, where people who control access to the decision-makers hold huge sway. But the biggest and best podcasters of today – people like Joe Rogan – built their success without the appropriate prestige background. Someone like Rogan did not come through the system, yet can conduct agenda-changing, probing, hours-long interviews. For those behind the castle walls, this is just terrible. How dare people who have not kissed the requisite asses, from Manhattan to Los Angeles, be so successful?

Uh, what's this about Joe Rogan not having gone through the gatekeeping system? I have all of Newsradio on DVD, after all!