I wonder if there are TV tropes that apply to the Late Show. Stephen Colbert. Late night comedians, YouTube comedians.I know the liberal outlets, I wonder if there are conservative ones that I don't know about yet.

But I am considering Stephen Colbert and Jon Oliver, Sam Bee, others I'm forgetting. Because I used to really love their comedy and then I became aware of certain things.

I have been very intrigued with how they communicate, and how that is related to mimetic activities in the mainstream.

I'm not sure who funds most of them, but Stephen Colbert seems to be heavy on the pharmaceutical and alcohol sponsors. Or something similar.

All of this has such interesting effects, and I think I would like to understand tvtropes somehow in this context.

Yes, a great way to get into them is looking at the pages for shows you know

Just scroll down for the list with summaries

Thank you!

And thank you for these instructions they are extremely helpful for the difficulties my brain is having. :-)

This has so many they are collapsed by first letter but just click to open

Wow, interesting.

And reminder, tropes don't dictate what should be done; they are just common patterns in media. Often they are played with, inverted, etc.

Discussed Trope, type 3:

And then there are the discussions that go something like, "If this were an action movie, talking about your family like that would mean you'd be dead in a few minutes." or "Unlike what you may read in detective stories, the Butler is a somewhat unlikely suspect in any murder investigation of this sort, for reasons X, Y and Z."

From the same page,

"This kind of conversation is used to set up either a justification (Invoked Tropes normally just sort of assume the trope is Truth in Television), a fully noted aversion, some variety of deconstruction or a way of hanging a lampshade. In some cases, it leads to Death by Genre Savviness."