Watched Colbert last night and cried through most of it

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Grim Chieftain (2,051 posts)

Watched Colbert last night and cried through most of it

That dear, sweet funny man lost his job for telling the truth about Trump. Is there nothing good that evil bastard hasn't destroyed? I'll be watching tonight's final episode with a box of Kleenex and a glass of Jameson.

BTW - after tonight, CBS is off limits in our house. Done.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221251841

His show sucked. Get a clue. Oh wait. you can't.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Watched Colbert last night and cried through most of it

Which just goes to show how much of a comedian he wasn't.

[SVPete]

I've heard noises that the show replacing Colbert will try to be funny instead of partisan. As Steve Sergeant Bilko Martin said, that's so crazy it might work.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Tough tits, you whiny baby. Go get your Trump hate fest at Kimmel, The Daily Show, or Fallon. Same shit, different network.

COAL-bert is a smarmy, unfunny, douche who got what was coming to him. His show WAS NOT cancelled by the big merger or pressure from President Trump. It was losing millions of dollars a year, which is what happens when you have 200-300 people getting union paychecks, not even including Coal-bert's $20 million.

Good riddance to bad trash.

[FlippyDoo]

So Grim Chieftain cried while watching a "comedian" whose is so NOT funny that his network let him go? I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you!

Oh, and bless its heart.

In other breaking news...
Water is wet and DemonRat minions are idiots.

[SVPete]

Grimy Chorizo cried when Colbert signed off? Colbert lost his show when his shrinking viewership intersected with consequent ad revenue shrinkage intersected. CBS realized that the two shrinkages meant that the prestige they got from having a big-name headliner had shrunk, making the $$$$ losses not worthwhile.

I did not cry when Carson and Leno retired. They retired when they were still going strong. The one thing about Leno that does "get to me" is his loving and faithful for Mavis, who is going through dementia. That is class and beyond, pretty much heresy in Hollyweird.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Grimy Chorizo cried when Colbert signed off? Colbert lost his show when his shrinking viewership intersected with consequent ad revenue shrinkage intersected. CBS realized that the two shrinkages meant that the prestige they got from having a big-name headliner had shrunk, making the $$$$ losses not worthwhile.

President Trump's first election in 2016 absolutely broke his brain. He was in last place in late-night, then turned his "entertainment" venture into an unfunny group therapy session for TDS addled lib-turds.

I did not cry when Carson and Leno retired. They retired when they were still going strong. The one thing about Leno that does "get to me" is his loving and faithful for Mavis, who is going through dementia. That is class and beyond, pretty much heresy in Hollyweird.

I don't cry either when a TV show ends. I'll reminisce about it how much entertainment value it brought to me. That's why I love sports (although some are lessening these days). In a sporting event, there is a game or season where one can devote themselves to "their" team and celebrate and agonize constantly. But there is always a winner and loser, and sometimes you're the windshield, other times you're the bug.

Carson reruns are still available and still funny, simply because he didn't take himself seriously as Coal-bert and the Jimmy's do. Leno was largely the same way, as was Letterman until something broke his brain. For many of these clowns, marrying a left-tard easily accomplishes that. Kimmel used to be funny on Fox NFL pre-game, The Man Show, Crank Yankers, and then left his "normal" wife for a woke-tard Kimmel Show writer who neutered both his testicles and his sense of humor.

As you likely know, I'm a Gutfeld fan, and know exactly what I'm getting with him. A short batch of jokes poking fun mostly at lefties and The View, an often politically tinged amusing monologue, and then five segments which might or might not have nothing to do with politics. He surrounds himself with less than 10% of a staff of the major legacy networks and gets better ratings albeit being on something like 50 million less homes.

[SVPete]

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As you likely know, I'm a Gutfeld fan, and know exactly what I'm getting with him. A short batch of jokes poking fun mostly at lefties and The View, an often politically tinged amusing monologue, and then five segments which might or might not have nothing to do with politics. He surrounds himself with less than 10% of a staff of the major legacy networks and gets better ratings albeit being on something like 50 million less homes.

Successfully mixing humor with socio-political commentary is a difficult art and balance. Rush was a master of that art, and that was part of why lefties HATED him. Glen Beck was good at it in the early 2000s, but he lost his sense of humor around the time he bought into "Peak Oil" doom.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Successfully mixing humor with socio-political commentary is a difficult art and balance. Rush was a master of that art, and that was part of why lefties HATED him. Glen Beck was good at it in the early 2000s, but he lost his sense of humor around the time he bought into "Peak Oil" doom.

Good points, totally agree with the Rush and Glenn Beck comparisons as they are apt.

Just for a point of clarification: I refuse to call Colbert by the pronunciation he uses. He's NOT French, nor is anyone in his family history. He uses it for effect to I guess sound sophisticated. There was a professional golfer in my youth named Jim Colbert, who won about half a dozen PGA tour events, and pronounced his name COAL-bert. He passed away a couple weeks ago in his mid 80's.

So that's why I refuse to dignify that smarmy douche by calling him by his preferred pronunciation.

[SVPete]

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Just for a point of clarification: I refuse to call Colbert by the pronunciation he uses. He's NOT French, nor is anyone in his family history. He uses it for effect to I guess sound sophisticated. There was a professional golfer in my youth named Jim Colbert, who won about half a dozen PGA tour events, and pronounced his name COAL-bert. He passed away a couple weeks ago in his mid 80's.

So that's why I refuse to dignify that smarmy douche by calling him by his preferred pronunciation.

I'm mildly surprised by this. Apparently his ancestry is mostly Irish, with one G-G-Gm being German-English. Maybe there's Norman or Alsatian ancestry somewhere back in her line. His father preferred the Frenchish pronunciation but used the English-phonetic pronunciation. He allowed his kids to choose and use their preference. School teachers and admins must've loved that differing usage when working with Stephen's parents (I had a cousin in the same grades and schools named Paul, which made for "fun", with school class rosters having "S____, P." for both of us).

[tuolumnejim]

I'd be very unhappy if I had to watch that retard also.   

[Ralph Wiggum]

Media Analyst Takes In-Depth Look at the Numbers That Doomed the Colbert Show

This is probably the last article about Stephen Colbert you will read at the Gateway Pundit for a while because, as you probably know, tonight is his last night on the air. What a shame.

There will be a lot of talk in liberal media circles over the next few weeks about how things could have gone differently. Colbert’s fans in the media are very sad that the show is ending and they’re going to openly complain about it.

One media analyst, Joe Concha of FOX News and the Washington Examiner, took a hard look at the numbers that finally brought down the Colbert show and they’re very telling.

From the Washington Examiner:

200-plus
That’s the number of staffers The Late Show currently employs. Can anyone explain why a program that consists almost entirely of two people talking across a desk needs more than 200 staffers?

22
That’s the number of writers Colbert has to craft his monologues, according to show credits. Most of those monologues are screeds against Trump and/or conservatives right out of the movie Groundhog Day. The days may change, but everything stays the same. Trump. Trump. Trump.

95%
That’s the number of jokes that targeted Trump and/or conservatives after CBS announced in July 2025 that Colbert would be going off the air, according to the Media Research Center.

100%
That’s the percentage of guests who were liberal on Colbert’s show after his cancellation was announced in July 2025, also per the MRC.

1
That’s how many “Republicans” have been invited on. And of course, that was the anti-Trump Liz Cheney, who campaigned with Democrat Kamala Harris leading up to her shellacking in the 2024 election.

15
That’s the number of times that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has appeared as a guest on the show.

0
That’s the number of times that arguably the most popular comedian in the game today, Sebastian Maniscalco, has appeared on Colbert in the past eight years. His last appearance was in 2018, and he has not been invited back since.

0
That’s the number of times Bill Maher has appeared on Colbert in the past decade. Maher is not shy about criticizing his own party. He also met with Trump last year at the White House. That’s a big no-no in Colbert’s world, where speaking to anyone on the other side of the aisle is completely unacceptable.

14
That’s the number of times CNN anchor Jake Tapper has appeared on Colbert. Tapper recently compared Colbert’s fate to that of a murdered priest in an on-air screed on CNN.

Of course, he also mentions the $40 million that the Colbert show lost annually for the network and at the end of the day, this was probably the most important number.

If the Colbert show had been financially successful, the network would have overlooked the leftism Colbert pushed every night.

So long, Mr. Colbert. You will not be missed.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/media-analyst-takes-depth-look-numbers-that-doomed/

[SVPete]

200-plus
That’s the number of staffers The Late Show currently employs. Can anyone explain why a program that consists almost entirely of two people talking across a desk needs more than 200 staffers?

That's easily explained, actually. It takes a lot of sycophants to fellate Colbert's TDS-inflated huge ego. Besides, probably 20% of those sycophants are on temporary disability for tongue-sprain.