Andrés du Bouchet has been putting words in Conan O’Brien’s mouth as a writer on Conan, The Tonight Show, and Late Night for seven years, but on his Twitter account Thursday night, he let his own voice be heard while weighing in on the state of comedy. And to put it succinctly, du Bouchet isn’t happy.

Here are the relevant, NSFW-language filled tweets:

Comedy in 2015 needs a severe motherfucking shakeup. No celebrities, no parodies, no pranks, no mash-ups or hashtag wars. I’m fat. — Andrés du Bouchet (@dubouchet) April 17, 2015

@dubouchet and shove your lip-synching up your ass. — Andrés du Bouchet (@dubouchet) April 17, 2015

Prom King Comedy. That’s what I call all this shit. You’ve let the popular kids appropriate the very art form that helped you deal. Fuck. — Andrés du Bouchet (@dubouchet) April 17, 2015

None of the funniest stuff ever involved celebrity cameos. — Andrés du Bouchet (@dubouchet) April 17, 2015

As is the case with almost all great rants, du Bouchet soon dialed things back a little bit after some time had passed.

Once again I’m a bonehead for tweeting as a fan of comedy instead of as a guy who earns a living doing it. — Andrés du Bouchet (@dubouchet) April 17, 2015

@guybranum thanks but now comes the inevitable dressing down at work for criticizing other talk shows! — Andrés du Bouchet (@dubouchet) April 17, 2015

Before tweeting out one more comment about late night…

@dubouchet add games and lip synching and nostalgia and karaoke to this list. — Andrés du Bouchet (@dubouchet) April 17, 2015

Which was followed by an apology.

Sorry for being a bloviating elitist windbag last night. I know tons of talented people are making the stuff I enjoy shitting all over. — Andrés du Bouchet (@dubouchet) April 17, 2015

Now, is du Bouchet right? Does comedy need a “severe expletive deleted shakeup” right now?

Based on these tweets, I think its fair to say that my late night comedy tastes are probably in line with what du Bouchet’s are and I’m sometimes annoyed by some of the same things that he railed against. But the bottom line is, Jimmy Fallon (with his lip sync battles and his penchant for nostalgia), Jimmy Kimmel (the pranks), James Corden (karaoke), and Chris Hardwick (the king of late night hashtags) are a big part of why late night still matters. On Twitter and on the internet, people are talking about these shows, and while that’s not the same as people watching them in droves, it’s not nothing. Especially as we re-calibrate the way we define success on television. And by the way, the stuff that they’re putting out is fun. And that matters even if it isn’t what some, including me, would say is the “right kind” of comedy.