Late-night TV sucks because the hosts and their writers are lazy

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Jay Leno is too polite to state the obvious: Late-night network shows under their current stewardship are no longer funny. If anything, they’re offensively predictable.

In an interview Tuesday on NBC’s “Today,” Leno, who hosted the network’s “Tonight Show” when it was ratings king, bemoaned the explicit political messaging that now substitutes for what were previously known as “comedic monologues.”

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