I haven’t watched Colbert for a while, but the few times I have, he seems to me (if you get his actual perspective) to be far more appropriate and reasonable a reaction than the mainstream news. He has long said what should have been said about Trump, and pointed it out with video examples: that Trump is incoherent and terrible and should have been laughed out of the elections, let alone never have been taken seriously as a candidate or elected, or not thrown out of office shortly after being elected, for absolutely preposterous and utterly unacceptable behavior. His observations are to me, very accurate, and show how ridiculously outrageously incompetent our news media, voters, and other politicians are for not ejecting that vile excuse for an adult the heck away from elected audience.
So yeah, if no one else is going to say it, definitely it’s valuable that comedians are saying it.
Same goes for a lot of adult comedy shows, notably even cartoon comedy shows, where the humor and cartoon format allow them to make needed true comments on otherwise-tabboo subjects.
I tend to avoid a lot of TV though, or at least their names, so I’m not sure if I’ve ever seen enough of “Noah, Myers, or Bee” to accurately comment on them or even be sure who they are.
I would say though that John Oliver definitely falls into the camp I was talking about, though – his comedy version, though sometimes overstated and evoking some backlash reactions from conservatives, seems to more often than not express the sorts of opinions that I tend to have and/or wish were the opinions and messages of what I would think would simply be objective news reporting.
That’s how messed up I think our corporate news media is, that it doesn’t express the same basic reactions to things.