Late-night TV is truly dead — and you can only blame egotistical, politically ob

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Late-night TV is truly dead — and you can only blame egotistical, politically obsessed Kimmel and Colbert themselves

https://nypost.com/2025/09/18/opinion/late-night-tv-is-truly-dead-at-the-hands-of-kimmel-and-colbert/

Late-night TV is well and truly dead — at the hands of the hosts themselves.

Their weapon? Their own blind rage at half the country.

Hosts like Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert have deluded themselves into thinking that their mandate is to save democracy with one-sided political rants, rather than serving up breezy topical humor to send Americans to their nightly slumber.
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The reality is, this moment of reckoning was self-inflicted — and inevitable. For the last decade, Kimmel and Colbert have decided that viewers don’t need chuckles and interviews with the celeb du jour.

We don’t even need jokes.

Nope, we need to be lectured on politics and told that one side of the country, those who voted Republican, is inherently evil and destructive.

Even as their cultural power dwindled and viewers splintered into more diverse online offerings, Kimmel and Colbert continued with their collective lead foot on the gas pedal.

But network shows don’t rake in the advertising bucks they used to — and, sometimes, the headaches simply aren’t worth the money.