Daily Show, Colbert Report and Jimmy Kimmel on Latinos

They’re some of the biggest comedy shows on television and lately they’ve turned to a unique topic for them: Latino issues.

John Stewart’s “The Daily Show, “ recently aired a segment which looked at the flashpoint of the end of Tucson’s Mexican-American studies program in Arizona with help from their “Latino” correspondent Al Madrigal.

Tucson school board member Michael Hicks was the subject of ridicule for saying that the course teaches students to overthrow white people through bloodshed but admitting he never attended the classes and instead relied on hearsay for his information.

“With powerful evidence like hearsay the Tucson school board had little choice but to end the Mexican American studies program,” Madrigal deadpanned. 

On Wednesday, Stephen Colbert’s, “The Colbert Report,” decided to look at one of the biggest topics concerning Hispanics in the United States – the issue of the Latino vote.

“Republicans will have to work hard to capture the Latino vote,” Colbert said. “Instead of their current strategy of capturing Latinos.”

Before Stewart and Colbert took to putting Latino issues in the limelight, Jimmy Kimmel decided to try his hand at something new in late night. Kimmel and Will Ferrell, who was promoting his Spanish language comedy, “Casa de mi Padre,” conducted their entire interview in Spanish with English subtitles in March.

Ferrell rode in on a horse and the triumphant sound of trumpets. Kimmel told Ferrell that he spoke excellent Spanish, to which Ferrell responded, “My Spanish is perfect. Like orange juice in the library.”

The interview proceeded hilariously as both men took to calling each other guapo – or handsome.

Both men spoke Spanish and tried to get Kimmel’s sidekick, the Mexican-American Guillermo involved. 

“No understand,” Guillermo responded.