Liberals Who Mostly Didn’t Watch Colbert’s Late Show Freaking Over It Being Cancelled

It really is insane

The end of Stephen Colbert’s Late Show is a concerning nail in the coffin for comedy

The idea that the political career of Donald Trump would be a goldmine for comedy died a long time ago, with the coffin accepting stray nails for the past five years. The latest and possibly last such nail is the cancellation of The Late Show, the CBS late-night talkshow hosted by Stephen Colbert since the fall of 2015, and originated by David Letterman when the network poached him from NBC in 1993. At this point, Trump hasn’t just made topical late-night comedy look outdated, hackneyed and an insufficient response to his reign of terror; he’s also made a chunk of it flat-out go away.

There will be time to eulogize Colbert’s particular talkshow style later; the Late Show isn’t leaving the air for another 10 months, when his contract is up. Surely that leaves plenty more time to savage the president – and Colbert has been in this slot since right around the time Trump became a real contender in the presidential race, so why has this only now come to a head? Seemingly because the axing of the Late Show franchise follows the $16m settlement of a frivolous Trump lawsuit against CBS and their newsmagazine show 60 Minutes over the show’s editing of a 2024 interview with presidential candidate Kamala Harris. Colbert made great fun of his bosses’ payout as a cowardly “bribe” designed to appease the Trump administration, who are in the position to approve or deny the sale of Paramount, the corporate owners of CBS, to the company Skydance. In other words, the pre-merger nixing a comedian who regularly goofs on Trump on network TV seems like a convenient bit of timing – maybe even an unspoken bonus to go along with those millions of dollars.

Shouldn’t late night comedians be, you know, funny? The whole idea was to have light-hearted fluff full of celebs, musicians, comedians, people with animals, etc, where Americans could chill right before bed. Even Al Gore being on with Letterman way back was more funny than political. Johnny Carson intentionally stayed away from politics. Colbert basically made the Late Show a later version of The Daily Show, all hardcore leftist politics. This created a limited audience which would never grow. Which made advertising rates low. They’re advertising to the same people.

And there are all sorts of articles and tweets about it being Trump’s Fault. The Atlantic even tries

Is Colbert’s Ouster Really Just a ‘Financial Decision’?

Yes, yes it was

CBS canned ‘The Late Show’ over tens of millions in financial losses annually — not Stephen Colbert’s politics: sources

CBS brass say they pulled the plug on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” because of its punishing losses — pegged between $40 million and $50?million a year — and claim politics had nothing to do with it, The Post has learned.

The 61-year-old host got canned just days after he took a dig at the Tiffany Network over its $16 million settlement with Donald Trump over a controversial “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris as the network’s parent Paramount negotiates with the Trump administration regulatory approval for its $8?billion sale to independent studio Skydance.

“I am offended, and I don’t know if anything will ever repair my trust in this company,” Colbert said of the truce in his Monday night monologue.

But scathing jokes at the expense of CBS brass wasn’t the problem, according to insiders.

And right there’s a problem: scathing jokes, instead of light-hearted jokes. Colbert was getting paid around $20 million a year for a limited audience, and his show cost way, way too much to produce, with way too many people working on it (I’ve heard about 200 employees)

Instead, the network’s bosses could no longer stomach the fact that Colbert has been plagued with an increasingly dire shortage of advertisers.

That’s despite Colbert’s No, 1 ratings in his time slot and his status as a key face for the Tiffany Network.

Have you ever watched a show and you see the same limited advertisers? That’s the Late Show. With low monetary rates for ads.

Lying liar who tells lies. Maybe she should be more concerned with the lawlessness in Boston from all the illegals. Colbert was preaching to his high end liberal pals, was not funny, not interesting. He didn’t have random people turning in.

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