Vince Vaughn slams late-night TV shows for being 'inauthentic' and 'agenda-based' -- and not funny

Vince Vaughn.

Actor Vince Vaughn sounded off on the liberal bent of the Hollywood industry at large, and also on the network TV late-night shows, which he said "stopped being funny" due to a politically agenda-driven ethos.

Vaugh appeared on This Past Weekend, Theo Von's podcast, and discussed the heavy liberal bias that's pervasive in the entertainment industry, and weighed in with his opinion on why the late-night TV shows have veered off the rails in the Trump era. 

"The talk shows, to a large part, became really agenda-based. They were going to evangelize people to what they thought," Vaughn said at one point of the interview. "And so people just rejected it because it didn’t feel authentic. It felt like they had an agenda. It stopped being funny, and it started feeling like I was in a f**king class I didn’t want to take. I’m getting scolded.”

Vaughn has described himself as libertarian, but has long had a conservative streak in him. He faced major backlash last year, when he was photographed in the Oval Office with President Trump for a social media post that was meant to spoof the movie poster of Wedding Crashers, one of Vaughn's biggest box office hits. The post racked up more than 100,000 likes.

Vaughn went on to discuss how politics, particularly liberal politics, has infected the entertainment industry.

The actor said opining on politics became "part of the job because you’ve got to talk about current events, but you don’t want to become part of a group and feel like you’re a champion for one ideology. You want to make fun of everybody."

Von asked Vaugn whether he'd ever felt ostracized by Hollywood, and Vaughn replied, "There was definitely a culture that if you didn’t agree with these ideas, you were looked at as bad. He added, "I always got along with people … and try to be honest about who I am," noting that he has "opinions on both sides." 

Below, watch a clip from the interview.