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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Ralph Wiggum on July 17, 2025, 07:25:23 PM
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CBS said Thursday that it was canceling “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” and retiring a late-night franchise that has existed for more than three decades.
Mr. Colbert’s run — and “The Late Show” itself — will end in May.
“This is purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night,” said George Cheeks, the president of CBS and co-chief executive of Paramount, CBS’s parent company. “It is not related in any way to the show’s performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount. Our admiration, affection and respect for the talents of Stephen Colbert and his incredible team made this agonizing decision even more difficult.”
NY Slimes link via paywall.
Edit: Fox News link
https://www.foxnews.com/media/cbs-cancels-the-late-show-stephen-colbert-end-program-may-2026
And Gutfeld slays another loser... :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
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Translating the SeeBS blah-blah into accurate English, Colbert's audience isn't large enough to garner sufficient ad revenue, so they're cancelling him (pun intended).
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Why can it in May 2026 if it is a financial decision?
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Why can it in May 2026 if it is a financial decision?
They probably have to pay off his contract whether the show is on the air or not. And his staff of hundreds are likely unionized who can't be axed immediately. Gutfeld has mentioned this before both on TV and on his website. His show has a staff of about 15 people, most of whom work in other capacities on the network. The other late night shows typically have 15 writers and probably 15 executive producers, not to mention all the other supporting folks.
Coal-bert and Kimmel simply lost the ability to be funny when President Trump emerged on the political scene. That is their main mission: to be entertaining.
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Apparently, Colbert lambasted SeeBS owner Paramount for settling Trump's lawsuit. Paramount may have been unamused with his runt-rant as well as less than happy with his ratings and ad revenue.
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Democrats Are Flipping Out Over Colbert’s Cancellation
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/07/18/democrats-are-flipping-out-over-colberts-cancellation-n4941872 (https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/07/18/democrats-are-flipping-out-over-colberts-cancellation-n4941872)
On Thursday evening, we learned that Stephen Colbert’s “The Late Show” will be axed in May 2026. Those of us on the right weren’t particularly shocked. Despite Colbert's reputation as the king of late night, Greg Gutfeld dethroned him in the fall of 2022, and it seemed inevitable that as Colbert’s ratings fell, so would ad revenue.
Naturally, the usual suspects on the left are in full meltdown mode. The narrative from their side is simple: Any setback for one of their favorite propagandists must be a covert political hit job orchestrated by Trump and his cronies.
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Late-night TV has been hemorrhaging money for years as viewers jump ship for streaming services. In 2018, these shows raked in $439 million in ad revenue. Last year, that figure crashed to $220 million — a collapse so catastrophic that no amount of Trump jokes could paper it over. But try telling that to the likes of Adam Schiff and Elizabeth Warren, who see sinister motives everywhere except in themselves.
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Democratic Sens. Schiff and Warren practically tripped over themselves, racing to social media and demanding an investigation, as though Colbert’s show was a sacred institution under assault.
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The left’s hysteria is transparent. Paramount’s merger with Skydance still needs sign-off from the Trump administration and the FCC. Throw in a $16 million settlement to Trump over a “60 Minutes” interview, and Democrats are convinced there’s a grand scheme to silence their guy, all conveniently ignoring that Paramount might simply want to stop losing money.
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Apparently, Colbert lambasted SeeBS owner Paramount for settling Trump's lawsuit. Paramount may have been unamused with his runt-rant as well as less than happy with his ratings and ad revenue.
And it does come down to the almighty dollar. Sort of wondering if he'll even last until May 2026, or might he self-implode on stage at some point. He's that f-ing crazy.
Have flipped the channel once in a while to either Kimmel or COAL-bert, and immediately changed channels because the venomous hatred of President Trump was just completely not remotely amusing. It is group therapy for woke-turds and lib-turds. Carson, Letterman, and Leno made fun of everyone. For Carson, he ridiculed (but not in a cruel way) Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and then George H.W. Bush. Along with mocking the VP's. Total fair game.
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IIRC, Letterman went full-partisan toward the end of his show's run, though his show ended before the 2016 primary campaign.
A quote of an X post from https://instapundit.com/732842/ :
Stephen Colbert’s legacy will be this…
“He was a gerbil of a man, an establishment shill, a toadie to big government, a follower instead of a trailblazer, a self-involved statist, a moral coward in the face of Woke McCarthyism, and a divisive, self-regarding loser who killed an entire late-night franchise because he sought applause from those who agreed with him instead of laughs from the rest of us.
“Most unforgivably, he sought only the approval of elites because he saw himself as too superior to entertain the rest of us.
“In short, Stephen Colbert will be remembered as a dick.
I wonder whether Letterman's partisanship hastened his departure.
Comedy has an equivalent of "Shut up and sing": Shut up and be funny!
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They probably have to pay off his contract whether the show is on the air or not. And his staff of hundreds are likely unionized who can't be axed immediately. Gutfeld has mentioned this before both on TV and on his website. His show has a staff of about 15 people, most of whom work in other capacities on the network. The other late night shows typically have 15 writers and probably 15 executive producers, not to mention all the other supporting folks.
Coal-bert and Kimmel simply lost the ability to be funny when President Trump emerged on the political scene. That is their main mission: to be entertaining.
It is weird they would announce almost a year in advance.
I remember reading that they were going to axe Bill Maher's Politically Incorrect before 9/11. Of course he made that vile statement and got destroyed for it. It was replaced by the Jimmy Kimmel Live!
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Leftist Redditors are upset that Stephen Colbert is out. :mental: :loser:
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1m31u8d/cbs_axes_colberts_the_late_show_after_trump_deal/
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1m2zn0k/stephen_colbert_announces_the_cancelation_of_the/
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They need their daily dose of Trump Hatred.
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CBS Reportedly Lost $40 Million on Colbert’s Late Show This Year
https://latenighter.com/news/cbs-reportedly-lost-40-million-on-colberts-late-show-this-year/ (https://latenighter.com/news/cbs-reportedly-lost-40-million-on-colberts-late-show-this-year/)
Sources inside CBS have suddenly become much more forthcoming about the sobering economics of late-night television in 2025—go figure— revealing that The Late Show with Stephen Colbert has recently been running at an annual shortfall of $40 million.
If that sounds unthinkable for the #1 rated show at 11:35pm, consider this: as Matt Belloni reports today in Puck, back in 2018, all of late-night television combined generated $438 million in advertising revenue. By 2023, that number had been cut in half, and it has continued to fall.
Given that The Late Show—with its handsomely paid host and a staff of roughly 200 employees—reportedly costs CBS $100 million per year to produce, that $40 million figure becomes easier to understand.
This is annoymorously sourced, but IMO, if SeeBS wants to dispute it I'd love to see their real numbers.
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CBS Reportedly Lost $40 Million on Colbert’s Late Show This Year
https://latenighter.com/news/cbs-reportedly-lost-40-million-on-colberts-late-show-this-year/ (https://latenighter.com/news/cbs-reportedly-lost-40-million-on-colberts-late-show-this-year/)
This is annoymorously sourced, but IMO, if SeeBS wants to dispute it I'd love to see their real numbers.
Nolte: The Only Person Who Canceled Stephen Colbert Was Stephen Colbert
Nothing better exemplifies why Stephen Colbert’s Late Show suddenly got canceled than the fact that Colbert’s prime guest on the night of the cancellation’s announcement was … Adam Schiff.
Nolte: The Only Person Who Canceled Stephen Colbert Was Stephen Colbert
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NEW YORK CITY - OCTOBER 8: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and guest Vice President KamScott Kowalchyk; Sonja Flemming/CBS via Getty Images
John Nolte18 Jul 20252,831
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Nothing better exemplifies why Stephen Colbert’s Late Show suddenly got canceled than the fact that Colbert’s prime guest on the night of the cancellation’s announcement was … Adam Schiff.
Yes, pencil-necked Adam Schiff. Yes, serial liar Adam Schiff. Yes, the dull, charisma-free Democrat U.S. Senator from California who spent more time on TV spreading deliberate misinformation about the Russia Collusion Hoax than anyone not named Jake Tapper.
CBS is reportedly paying Colbert $15 million a year. On top of that, for some reason, Colbert requires a crew of 200 (and their salaries) to put on a late-night show with zero cultural impact that fewer than one percent of Americans watch. And still, he thinks it’s a good idea to invite on a dull and divisive politician to spout dull and divisive talking points.
“Does the end of Colbert’s show in May 2026 relate to the Paramount-Skydance merger? To Colbert’s criticism of Donald Trump? To the demise of late night television? Who’s to say?” the Hollywood Reporter wrote.
Either way, it’s certainly not Colbert’s fault. No, it must be an all-new problem with the “economics of late-night TV”:
It’s a brutal blow for late-night, which has already been struggling in recent years with CBS recently axing After Midnight, the show that replaced The Late Late Show with James Corden, instead of replacing host Taylor Tomlinson.
Blah-blah-blah…
There’s only one reason Stephen Colbert got canceled, and that’s that Stephen Colbert sucks.
That’s it.
All this guy does is use an hour of network airtime (on publicly-owned airwaves) to masturbate his own political sweet spot.
And now we know that appeals to only two million people in a country of 330 million.
The problem is not the economics of late-night TV. The problem is the economics of Stephen Colbert.
Bottom line: Colbert’s relentless, narcissistic act of political onanism will never deliver an audience big enough to justify the budget necessary to pay his $15 million annual salary and the salaries of a crew of 200.
Colbert should be on CNN or MSNBC, where the cost of production is more in line with his limited appeal.
Greg Gutfeld’s late-night show airs on a cable channel (Fox News) that’s available in millions and millions fewer homes than CBS. Nevertheless, Gutfeld! still humiliates Colbert in the ratings night after night. And I’ll bet dollars to rotten bananas Gutfeld’s production budget is a fraction of what CBS is wasting so that Colbert can drop his pants and pleasure himself every night.
Stephen Colbert is so unappealing that his ratings were actually lower — lower! — before he turned the Late Show into a version of the Rachel Maddow Show where the smug, dishonest host wears Harold Lloyd’s glasses.
Johnny Carson left a legacy—the best at what he did for 30 years, with shows so entertaining they are still rerun 30 years after he retired. David Letterman left a legacy—he created late-night for college kids. Arsenio Hall left a legacy—he proved Carson was vulnerable. When Colbert says his goodbyes next May and moves on to a podcast no one listens to, he will only be remembered this way…
Stephen Colbert was a gerbil of a man, an establishment shill, a toadie to big government, a follower instead of a trailblazer, a self-involved statist, a moral coward in the face of Woke McCarthyism, and a divisive, self-regarding loser who killed an entire late-night franchise because he sought applause from those who agreed with him instead of laughs from the rest of us.
Most unforgivably, he sought only the approval of elites because he saw himself as too superior to entertain the rest of us.
In short, Stephen Colbert will be remembered as a dick.
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/07/18/nolte-the-only-person-who-canceled-stephen-colbert-was-stephen-colbert/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=daily&utm_campaign=20250718
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In short, Stephen Colbert will be remembered as a dick.
If he's even remembered at all. Hell I don't even think about him at all.
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I don’t know why they’re upset. They just canceled him. They’re not gonna shoot him. :lmao: :lmao: :loser:
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The gift that keeps on giving, :rotf: :tongue: :
Colbert Flips Out on Air With Profanity-Laced Rant Against Trump
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/07/22/colbert-flips-out-on-air-blames-trump-for-cancelation-n4941981 (https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/07/22/colbert-flips-out-on-air-blames-trump-for-cancelation-n4941981)
His show cancellation apparently struck a nerve with Colbert, who responded in his monologue with the kind of smug self-satisfaction that helped tank his ratings in the first place. He then proceeded to make his cancellation entirely about Trump.
“For the next 10 months, the gloves are off,” he said. “I can finally speak unvarnished truth to power and say what I really think about Donald Trump.”
As if he hasn’t been saying what he really thinks about Trump for the past decade.
Colbert pushed the conspiracy theory that the cancellation was due to his rant against Paramount for settling Trump’s lawsuit. He questioned how “The Late Show” could be a financial disaster when it’s number one in the ratings.
Then he set his sights on Trump, who had had the audacity to celebrate the show’s well-deserved cancellation.
“How dare you, sir?” Colbert said in mock outrage, before mockingly asking if an “untalented man” could deliver what he proudly called a “satirical witticism.” Then, in what he surely thought was a moment of comedic brilliance, Colbert stared into his so-called “Eloquence Cam” and barked, “Go f— yourself.”
1. On one hand, SeeBS parent Paramount paid Trump $25M for SeeBS's partisan editing the Kammie intershamview. On the other, Colbert's show - whatever the combination of ad revenue losses and staff bloat - loses SeeBS on the order of $40M a year and Colbert is a huge, angry, hate-driven lawsuit risk. A first grader could do that Math!
2. As DU demonstrates several times a day, a drunken Trump-hating sot could achieve the eloquence and profundity of GFY!
Writers Guild Wants NY AG Letitia James to Investigate Colbert Firing
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2025/07/22/writers-guild-demands-that-ny-ag-letitia-james-investigate-colbert-firing-n4941977#google_vignette (https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2025/07/22/writers-guild-demands-that-ny-ag-letitia-james-investigate-colbert-firing-n4941977#google_vignette)
The left saw Colbert as a Trump nemesis, skewering the president night after night in unfunny monologues and hosting guests whose claim to fame was being opposed to Donald Trump. For normal viewers, the constant anti-Trump caterwauling got to be tiresome and eventually, uncomfortable.
But the real reason Colbert was canceled was the changing landscape of late-night television. Pre-COVID, the genre was a profit leader for networks largely because the primary audience for the late-night talk format was the 18-35 demographic. Once the streaming revolution began in earnest after COVID, the first viewers to leave cable and satellite were from the same demographic.
Colbert's show wasn't a victim of government censorship or even its anti-Trump viewpoint. Simple economics spelled the end of Colbert.
But the Writers Guild won't accept that. As typical left-wingers, they think that Paramount dropping $50 million a year is nothing as long as someone is rattling Trump's cage on a nightly basis.
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“Cancellations are part of the business, but a corporation terminating a show in bad faith due to explicit or implicit political pressure is dangerous and unacceptable in a democratic society," the Guild said in a statement.
Trump-Hating Letitia shamvestigating Trump-Hating SeeBS for an obviously non-political, obviously financial, decision? I highly approve of Blue-on-Blue! :tongue: :tongue: :tongue:
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Colbert Is Latest Casualty of Late-Night TV's Fade-out
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/colbert-cancelled-casualty/2025/07/19/id/1219304/ (https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/colbert-cancelled-casualty/2025/07/19/id/1219304/)
CBS executives said in a statement that dropping the show was "purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night. It is not related in any way to the show's performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount."
Whether or not politics were at play, the late-night format has been struggling for years, as viewers increasingly cut the cable TV cord and migrate to streaming. Younger viewers, in particular, are more apt to find amusement on YouTube or TikTok, leaving smaller, aging TV audiences and declining ad revenues.
Americans used to religiously turn on Johnny Carson or Jay Leno before bed, but nowadays many fans prefer to watch quick clips on social media at their convenience. Advertising revenue for Colbert's show has dropped 40% since 2018 - the financial reality that CBS said prompted the decision to end “The Late Show” in May 2026.
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The show's ad revenue plummeted to $70.2 million last year from $121.1 million in 2018, according to ad tracking firm Guideline. Ratings for Colbert’s show peaked at 3.1 million viewers on average during the 2017-18 season, according to Nielsen data.
For the season that ended in May, the show’s audience averaged 1.9 million.
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CBS Is About to Have a Big, Expensive Stephen Colbert Problem — and Howard Stern Is the Precedent
https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2025/07/22/cbs-is-about-to-have-a-big-expensive-stephen-colbert-problem-and-howard-stern-is-the-precedent-n4941985 (https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2025/07/22/cbs-is-about-to-have-a-big-expensive-stephen-colbert-problem-and-howard-stern-is-the-precedent-n4941985)
Question for CBS: What the hell do you THINK is gonna happen with Stephen Colbert, who’ll be on your airwaves for another 10 months?!
If you still can’t figure it out, I’ll break it down for you:
1. His audience consists of liberals;
2. He needs these liberals to follow him to YouTube (or wherever he goes) when his show ends;
3. The easiest way to be “must-see” news/entertainment for liberals is to attack Trump/conservatives in increasingly “newsworthy” ways; and
4. Since Colbert knows he’ll be off the air anyway, you’re not gonna be able to control him.
As my colleague Matt Margolis noted, on his first night back since his firing was announced, Colbert attacked the president with a profanity-laced tirade.
Question for CBS, Part II: You do realize Colbert’s profane attacks will only escalate, right? Is that something you REALLY want on your airwaves for the next 10 months?
Look, CBS had every right to yank Colbert off the air. It’s bad business to pay a guy $15 million to be the public face of an entertainment brand that’s losing $40 million annually. So, even before, the CBS economic model and the Stephen Colbert economic model were no longer on the same page.
But now? You’ve just given Colbert a 10-month window to build and grow a leftwing audience that he intends to take with him!
Monday’s F-bombs are a sign of what’s to come.
Prediction: Stephen Colbert will be removed from the airwaves well before May 2026, and Stern-esque litigation will likely follow.
At this point, I think it’s inevitable.
I don't know how the coming 10 months will play out, but Colbert is in a position of knowing that whatever he does, right now he's out sooner or later. He also is in a position where he could play political martyr and try to gin up pressure on SeeBS to back down. So, be a whatcha gonna do, fire me? A-hole or play victim, which way will Colbert go?
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CBS Is About to Have a Big, Expensive Stephen Colbert Problem — and Howard Stern Is the Precedent
https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2025/07/22/cbs-is-about-to-have-a-big-expensive-stephen-colbert-problem-and-howard-stern-is-the-precedent-n4941985 (https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2025/07/22/cbs-is-about-to-have-a-big-expensive-stephen-colbert-problem-and-howard-stern-is-the-precedent-n4941985)
I don't know how the coming 10 months will play out, but Colbert is in a position of knowing that whatever he does, right now he's out sooner or later. He also is in a position where he could play political martyr and try to gin up pressure on SeeBS to back down. So, be a whatcha gonna do, fire me? A-hole or play victim, which way will Colbert go?
He will get himself ass-canned for cause by Labor Day.
Maybe you'd be better off learning how to code, COAL-bert.
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Democratic Sens. Schiff and Warren practically tripped over themselves, racing to social media and demanding an investigation, as though Colbert’s show was a sacred institution under assault.
Demanding... an investigation???
An investigation of what???
I've come to expect megalomaniacal nonsense from the left, but this is over the top, even for them.
Here, I'll conduct the investigation for you. The findings are as follows: Colbert's show sucks. It turns out, making a monothematic show about bashing Trump doesn't sell. And Colbert is so pretentious, he even pronounces his own name wrong.
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It’s not just Colbert — network late-night TV is dead
https://nypost.com/2025/07/19/entertainment/its-not-just-colbert-network-late-night-tv-is-dead/
Everybody was shocked — shocked! — when Stephen Colbert announced this week that CBS canceled “The Late Show.”
The despondent media reacted like a meteor was about to smash into Earth.
But how surprising was Colbert’s kibosh really?
Simply, late night shows are on their way out.
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Demanding... an investigation???
An investigation of what???
I've come to expect megalomaniacal nonsense from the left, but this is over the top, even for them.
Here, I'll conduct the investigation for you. The findings are as follows: Colbert's show sucks. It turns out, making a monothematic show about bashing Trump doesn't sell. And Colbert is so pretentious, he even pronounces his own name wrong.
In Dems' and other Progs' evidence-free fantasies, SeeBS-Paramount is sucking up to Trump (who will be out of office in ~3 1/2 years) by settling his lawsuit (which Paramount may have lost after an expensive defense), and Trump arm-twisted SeeBS to cancel Colbert (giving him another 10 months in which he can demonize Trump and crap on SeeBS-Paramount manglement).
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Colbert's manager knew of show's cancellation weeks before host, show axed for financial reasons: Report
https://www.foxnews.com/media/colberts-manager-knew-shows-cancellation-weeks-before-host-show-axed-financial-reasons-report
Stephen Colbert's manager knew that "The Late Show" would be canceled at CBS more than two weeks before his client did, and the decision to cancel the show was "truly driven by financials," according to a new report.
Although many supporters have speculated the late-night show was canceled over Colbert's liberal politics, sources told The Ankler's Lesley Goldberg that the decision was financially motivated.
"The timing of the cancellation news break — it came three days after a post-vacation Colbert blasted Paramount’s settlement with Trump as "a big fat bribe" — has created terrible optics for the media conglomerate as it awaits formal approval of its merger with Skydance. Nevertheless, multiple sources say the shocking decision to retire the Late Show brand was truly driven by financials as the late-night space has continued to face declining ad revenue and dwindling linear viewers," The Ankler reported.
The Late Show was cancelled before Stephen Colbert even knew. It was financial decision to axe the show.
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Stephen Colbert Melts Down on Air, Calls Himself a “Martyr,” Fires Profanity at President Trump After Cancellation [WATCH]
https://www.boredtrashpanda.com/43234/stephen-colbert-melts-down-on-air-calls-himself-a-martyr-fires-profanity-at-president-trump-after-cancellation-watch/
Stephen Colbert called himself a “martyr” and directed an explicit insult at President Donald Trump during Monday’s broadcast of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, just days after CBS confirmed it will cancel the late-night talk show in May 2026, as reported by The New York Post.
In his monologue, Colbert addressed President Trump directly, responding to a Truth Social post in which the President wrote, “I absolutely love that Colbert was fired,” and suggested that Jimmy Kimmel might be next.
Colbert fired back by telling Trump, “Go f**k yourself.”
Stephen Colbert a martyr. Only when pigs fly. :mental: :bs: :loser:
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CNN’s Situation Room: Cutting Colbert Could Kill Free Speech Forever
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/lucas-escala/2025/07/23/cnns-situation-room-cutting-colbert-could-kill-free-speech-forever
Like many others in the liberal media, CNN’s The Situation Room co-hosts Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown were quick to jump on the growing wave of fear that somehow spread from a flopping comedy show getting cancelled. In an interview with CNN chief media analyst Brian Stelter, the three expressed their concerns over what Colbert’s cancellation meant for the future of late-night TV… and our freedom.
When CBS announced the end of the award-winning The Late Show with Stephen Colbert over the show’s reported financial failings, many refused to believe it was possible. But, believe it or not, Stephen Colbert actually did win awards for his work on The Late Show.
He also lost Paramount Global $40 million dollars annually; $100 million to produce while only bringing in $60 million in ad revenue.
The sky is falling! The sky is falling! Free speech only applies to the government.
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Apparently, some have counter-argued that a $40M loss is a drop in the bucket for a billion-dollar corporation like Paramount. OTOH, borrowing from a 1960s Congress-Critter, $16M here, $40M there, pretty soon we're talking real money.
On top of the $40M, Colbert runs his mouth pretty freely, kind of like Step-in-awful-stuff did, to ABC's loss. IOW, Colbert's big mouth is a big lawsuit risk to Paramount/SeeBS.
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Apparently, some have counter-argued that a $40M loss is a drop in the bucket for a billion-dollar corporation like Paramount. OTOH, borrowing from a 1960s Congress-Critter, $16M here, $40M there, pretty soon we're talking real money.
On top of the $40M, Colbert runs his mouth pretty freely, kind of like Step-in-awful-stuff did, to ABC's loss. IOW, Colbert's big mouth is a big lawsuit risk to Paramount/SeeBS.
So many thoughts about this comical episode, which is far funnier than his soon-to-be ended show. And yes...
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If CBS/Paramount/Viacom were acceptable to paying out the unfunny loser COAL-bert, then why did they announce this afterwards:
The great “South Park” standoff of ’25 is over. Series creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have officially extended their overall deal with Paramount Global for a further five years.
Under the terms of the deal between Paramount and Parker and Stone’s Park County production company, “South Park” has received an order for 50 new episodes. In addition, all 26 previous seasons will be available to stream on Paramount+ for the first time, while new episodes will air on Comedy Central and then stream on Paramount+ the day after.
The news comes after it was reported on Monday that Parker and Stone were close to a new deal with Paramount worth approximately $300 million per year for a total of $1.5 billion.
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/south-park-renewed-paramount-plus-trey-parker-matt-stone-1236468038/
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So many thoughts about this comical episode, which is far funnier than his soon-to-be ended show. And yes...
:beathorse: :beathorse: :beathorse:
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Were it not for the fact that I hit my pillow before 10 PM and have never seen Colbert's show (and probably not even a GoogTube clip from it), I'd say the fall-out from Colbert's comeuppance is far more amusing than his show. That qualification aside, I am finding Progs' whinging and whining very amusing, and the facts underlying his coming departure contradicting them it even more so.
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Suppose They Threw a Protest for Stephen Colbert and (Almost) Nobody Came?
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2025/07/28/suppose-they-threw-a-protest-for-stephen-colbert-and-almost-nobody-came-n4942153 (https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2025/07/28/suppose-they-threw-a-protest-for-stephen-colbert-and-almost-nobody-came-n4942153)
New Yorkers rose as one this weekend in protest of late-night philosopher king Stephen Colbert being forced off the air (eventually, someday) by Orange Man Literally Hitler™ in his latest crushing of dissent and our democracy.
Or perhaps not.
The "We're With Colbert" protest garnered 20 mostly bored-looking protestors — and only briefly. One masked defender of democracy carried a homemade sign that read "Go F*** Yourself" above a Photoshop collage of three different black church choirs. I suppose they were supposed to be singing her catchy slogan in their Sunday best.
So... um... there was that.
Even on social media — where it's basically free for bots to drum up fake-but-passable support for any cause du jour — "We're With Colbert" was a bust. My not-so-brief scroll through X's search results revealed a seemingly endless stream of links to the same New York Post write-up of the non-event, plus the occasional cruel comments from amused Righties.
My emphasis. I'm sure Colbert has more than 20 fans in NYC upset with his (eventual) canning, so I think this scant turn-out means NYCers are not buying and going all-in on Progs' evidence-free Hate-Trump narrative.
I usually hit the sheets in the 9 O'clock hour, so I have no dog in this hunt, but I'm finding Progs' whinging and whining very amusing, probably much greater amusement than I'd derive from watching Colbert's show.
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I couldn't be happier if they cancelled all the late-night comedy shows right now and be done with it. They could be replaced with something more useful, like infomercials or Gilligan's Island reruns.
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I'm going to go all thread necrophilia on this topic because Greg Gutfeld appeared on Fallon's show last night, therefore tangentially relevant.
I'll copy and post verbatim what I posted on his private forum this morning, along with a link to the video clip of Gutfeld's appearance.
Last night was the first time I'd watched a late night "comedy" show in years. I can clearly see why their rating stink out loud and COAL-bert is being cancelled. Fallon appeared to have ADHD throughout that entire show. If his show is similar to that every night, it makes me wonder who the hell finds that entertaining.
Greg was great per usual, but he was kind of shoved into the post-Jonas Bros slobber-fest for just a few minutes. It felt forced. I'd obviously much prefer Greg to be the lead-off guest where he could have been asked more legitimate and interesting questions. Perhaps even for two segments.
Carson, Letterman, and even Conan would have done better.
Ralphie's Grade: An A minus for the Greg segment; the rest of the show merits a D minus
https://youtu.be/E6bn0a6Dcns?si=j9qFP4fSx4H-rKsG
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What late night comedy used to be, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76wzA2A2T1Q .
The first bit might also be the sound made by a feminazi seeing the Sydney Sweeney American Eagle ad for the first time.
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What late night comedy used to be, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76wzA2A2T1Q .
The first bit might also be the sound made by a feminazi seeing the Sydney Sweeney American Eagle ad for the first time.
Speaking of which:
(https://media3.locals.com/images/posts/2025-08-08/425591/425591_8hjxgpmecchllup_full.jpeg)