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$20 friggin' million/year? YGTBSM! Blaming it on Trump. So predictable.

Good Riddance to the bum!

$20 million a year, but he goes on and on about those rich MAGA republicans. He needs a staff of 200 to prop him up.

People on the left blame Trump for the lumps in their oatmeal. I'm so over people blaming Trump I don't even listen to it anymore.

politics aside, I'm surprised he lasted this long. The ONLY funny thing that hack Colbert has EVER done is provide the voice of Phil Ken Sebben in Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law and Part 2
And this glorious achievement can be enjoyed in two videos that take less than 25 minutes to watch.
This is the comedic peak of his career right here. Everything else has been political hackery, and Strangers With Candy which was the total opposite of funny.

Sure, CBS says it was a financial decision. And with The Late Show hemorrhaging $40 million a year, that’s not exactly pocket change—even for a network that still thinks people watch commercials. But let’s not pretend this was just about dollars and cents. The timing? Suspicious. The optics? Murky. The gloating? Presidential.

Trump, never one to miss a victory lap, posted on Truth Social:

“I absolutely love that Colbert got fired. His talent was even less than his ratings.”

He then graciously extended his critique to the rest of late-night:
“I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next. Has even less talent than Colbert! Greg Gutfeld is better than all of them combined, including the Moron on NBC who ruined the once great Tonight Show.”

So yes, the show was expensive. Yes, ad revenue tanked. But when the guy who just settled a $16 million lawsuit with CBS starts cheering from the sidelines, it’s hard not to wonder if the axe came with a little extra swing.

Only a moron would watch that show.

Dont care for any of the late night shows anymore.

I miss Johnny Carson.

ZH had a better article about this. They are all using late night as a political tool. They can push agendas and tell lies with less scrutiny because they can just claim they are comedians. They are also employing the devious “daily show” formula of using Pavlovian training to associate non-leftist ideology with mockery and humiliation. Stewart long ago pioneered this process where he rapidly mocks a concept, the audience is then prompted to laugh (regardless of it is funny) and then before you can process that what he is saying is Marxist bullshit, he moves on to the next bit of conditioning that uses the “fear of mockery” to brainwash you into conforming to cultural Marxism.

This “daily show” type conditioning proved that it worked so well on “midwits” (like KF) that it has been replicated by every network with much less and varying effectiveness.

Shows are canceled all the time. Get over it.

He has a solid base…he will be back in another format

25 years from now, it will still be Trump's fault. Amazing how little accountability these hacks want to take.

ABC needs to get rid of Jimmy Kibble & Bits!
He's a founding member of the leftist Democrats & a Smuck!

Late night comedy died May 22, 1992.

Don't watch any late night shows. Hope that man finds his peace coming over to MAGA!

Letterman was a funny host. You can watch plenty of videos where he would visit Trump Tower with tourists from his audience to make content for his show. Trump was always gracious and welcomed Letterman and his guests. Trump would allow Letterman to make fun of him and even play a long. Once Trump even joked “I have nothing else to do” when Letterman thanked him for allowing his crew to just show up. It wasn’t disrespectful of Trump in any way. It was comedy and Letterman was genuinely funny in the 80s and 90s. Colbert wasn’t qualified for fill Letterman’s chair. Sadly, I don’t think any sort of comedy is really allowed anymore. It all has to be PC and the only racial/gender jokes a can be about white males.

Jack Paar and Steve Allen were better than all of them combined,including Carson.

Letterman turned into a heel by the end and Colbert was never anything but one.

Hearing footsteps, Fallon and Kimmel? All three of you are midgets compared to your predecessors.

Please take your meds! It is just a TV show.

That tinfoil hat is wrapped a little tight don’t you think?

His reaction when Jon Stewart called out the Wuhan virus as a lab leak said it all. He has a mean streak and gives the impression that if you disagree with his politics, he looks down on you.

It was losing a ton of money but I think the final nail was CBS did not see a road to profitability for the show. Given the rise of the internet, podcasts, Youtube etc, stars no longer need those late night shows for access to public. Carson was not just a comedian, but he was also a gatekeeper.

I think Colbert is funny, even though I don’t always agree with him…end of the day it’s a failing business model…I have to go to work in the morning, so I’d rather watch a few clips here and there, and I don’t see how any late night show could monetize that

In 2009, the show led other late night shows in ad revenue with $271 million.[75] In February 2014, Advertising Age cited Kantar Media and Nielsen in reporting that for January to October 2013, Late Show attracted $179.6 million in advertising for CBS, higher than its seven late-night competitors on NBC, ABC, Comedy Central, and E!.[74] Late Show also had the oldest median audience among those same peer broadcasts,[74] at 58.9.

So let me get this straight=== just because Colbert gives liberals and infected TDS a place to advertise their symptoms then CBS (Paramount) shouldn't care about how to fund it. This is the ultimate definition of socialism. Colbert, if his show is worth so much, should move to Paramount+ where those who want the propaganda can pay for it...

What is ZH?

There is an excellent documentary available, “The Story of Late Night “. It covers the beginning with Steve Allen and goes all the way up to the current hosts.

While I did like his Waffle House song with Sturgill Simpson and the time when he came to Hattiesburg to do a segment for the Daily Show about the Rick James campaign signs being stolen, most of his humor missed the mark.

@4:01 try using this new search engine called google. ZH are in the WH press pool.

I've never heard of Colbert, and didn't know there was a show with that name. But it doesn't seem to matter WHICH Late Night Talk Communist you try to watch, they all come across as rabid bullies and really nasty people - the kind of bullies who'd mock and bait their victims, before the other ones rushed in with fists. At least this Colbert person looks human. The rest are so hideous, your finger keeps punching the remote, without pausing.

I'm surprised, actually, though, that profitability factored into the decision to can the show. Maybe its being unprofitable, is only the EXCUSE. The hostile factions controlling television, view profits as tertiary considerations - far behind Propaganda Value and efficacy in inducing Mass Formation Psychosis. What's a hundred million or two, when The Conquest of North America is the End Goal.

Maybe Colbert isn't hateful and crazy ENOUGH? Maybe his restingbitchface isn't bitchy enough?

Forget late night TV, how does "The View" stay on the air? It is nothing but ill informed and not very smart people spewing hatred non-stop.

What is not mentioned in this article or in any of the comments is that the Colbert cancellation came one night after Colbert‘s rent about his bosses at CBS bribing Trump. I would blame Colbert instead of Trump since it was Colbert, who criticized his bosses and called them out for committing bribery.

@5:21 Not sure you could easily find what ZH is with Google if you don’t already have an inkling of what you are looking for. I assume you are referring to ZeroHedge.

Hope The View is next!

Oooooooh! Now I know who Colbert was. 5:36 again. I'm in the middle of reading today's Coffee&Covid, and there's a pic of Colbert doing the Vaccine Dance, clips of which were included, I think, in both 'Died Suddenly' and in one of the 'Plandemic' documentaries (not sure if it was 'Plandemic 1', 'Plandemic 2', or 'Plandemic 3'). I remember wondering who that pathetic fool was.

This probably serves to illustrate what people actually ARE watching (We are NOT watching network television).

I love watching late night TV from Johnny Carson on! I don’t think politics while watching these shows I just like the humor! Some of y’all take a chill pill with the political shigity! Just relax and enjoy or don’t watch! Maybe you could come go with me to my VA psych appointment every month if you’re that stressed about late night tv! Try watching little house on the prairie, two and half men or the Andy griffin show if you’re that stressed out!

They can go ahead and cancel it a decade ago.

All you gullible frogs are slowly being boiled into fascism with your tangerine tyrant. When he finally comes for you, just bend over and take it.

These guys are all creepy, sanctimonious, liberal nerds.

https://theweek.com/articles/496245/letterman-scandal-timeline

Carson understood the business all too well.....

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIpdCL2ti5M/?hl=en

Over 50% of America stopped watching late night because we don’t want to hear a liberal bashing Trump.

@ "try using this new search engine called google. ZH are in the WH press pool.

July 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM"

I tried that. Got nothing useful. Still don't know.

I assume ZH 'are' plural since our resident genius @ July 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM used that tense.

Comedy died with Norm MacDonald. RIP in Peace, Norm.

Go woke-

200 staffers and Colbert's material wasn't even funny.

I assume ZH refers to ZeroHedge, an economic/global/politico web site. Worth looking at.

@5:36PM. Your ignorance is astonishing! You’ve never seen the show, yet still have an opinion about Colbert? It’s people like you who elected the most ignorant President in the history of the Republic.

Only $20 million? Aaron Judge with the NY Yankees pulls in $40+ million for a seasonal gig.

2:40, when you say "...the most ignorant President in the history of the Republic", are you referring to Obama or Baby Bush or Brandon? I would include Carter, but it's possible he was simply blinded by his own Malignant Narcissism, and did so many stupid things, because he thought they made him look heroic.

In any event, "people like me" mostly stayed away from the polls, or voted for whoever was running against Obama, Bush2, and El Presidente Magoo aka Brandon delAutopen aka The Boiled Cabbage.

I remember when Traitor & The Skank were running on the Republican ticket (The Skank was from Alaska, and her children had tacky names, like 'Track': but I don't remember much else). Whenever I'd think about voting for them, I'd get the beginnings of nausea, as did most "people like me". That's when Obama won. Oops! I went without sleep, for days, following that election, shorting everything I could short, before everybody else could, and so The Obama Depression enriched us aplenty.

In general, most "people like me" voted "Perot, Perot, Nader", but generally didn't bother to vote, at all, until Donald came along. Donald may be rude and crude, but he's NOT IGNORANT. I went to Tulane, with plenty of people from Queens, who, like Donald, were also rude and crude. But they were NOT IGNORANT. They were canny and cunning and cosmopolitan, as is Donald, and this hints at why he's THE GREATEST PRESIDENT SINCE THE FOUNDING FATHERS.

As for the Late Night Talk Show Communist, one does not need to watch his drivel, to know exactly what he's been about. That infamous clip of him flanked by the Dancing Vaccine Shot Needles, is all one needs see.

For $20M a year you'd think he would've gotten that one jug ear of his fixed. That's maybe part of the act, though.

I watch all of the Fox new shows. Jessie, Laura, & Sean. The second Gutfield comes on, I find something else. Late night host are a dying breed.

It has finally (after a struggle) occurred to me who this Colbert guy has been trying to emulate all these years. Gary Owens!

https://deadline.com/2015/02/gary-owens-dead-laugh-in-announcer-radio-voice-over-legend-1201373228/

Saw some numbers this morning. Letterman was at nearly 8 million viewers at one point. When he left it had dropped off substantially. The show was averaging 2.4 million viewers under Colbert. Shrinking audience, losing $40 million a year, it was on borrowed time. Now if they would just pull the plug on the WNBA. Got more of a break than the WFL or USFL ever did.

Hemorrhaging money in an industry that is losing viewers by the day and you choose to go on national television and bad-mouth your employer for something that had nothing to do with your show at all. You spouted your opinion, as is your right to do. Your employer exercised their rights and fired your woke ass. That's it. Nothing more.
Same would happen if I wasn't performing well at work and I sent a company-wide email calling my CEO a f**king idiot. Bye. That's it. But it was probably racism or homophobia behind Colbert's ousting. Had to be.

Thanks for explaining, 10:25, what you like about those shows. We were, a few weeks back, talking about a departed uncle. Someone was recalling a moment in the Seventies, when he was showing a young relative how to watch Johnny Carson (a sophisticated grownup manly thing to do, in the mind of the uncle). "Did he think I'd grown up without televisions? Or, maybe being ushered-into watching Johnny Carson, was like a rite of manhood?"

This uncle was deeply "impressionable". Identifying with sports teams, and with Sam Walton, was very important to him. His two product startups plotzed - totally - because he wrapped his marketing in Red, White, & Blue, and noble language, because he thought Sam Walton would like it and sign a billion-Dollar contract. Walton was unimpressed, and consumers saw the packaging as STALE - cliched - unappetizing.

Apparently, being dragged to low-end churches, had warped our uncle's young mind (ours was a family without adult males, and we kids were human shields for our moms, while they trolled the churches, looking for paying gentleman callers). He was full of guilt and self-hate - the kind instilled by preachers - and spent his years, and most of his fortune, doing massive acts of charity.

Unlike the rest of us, he had ONE accent, from boyhood until the end of his life. The rest of us segue between accents, whether we want to or not. Some cousins, in Atlanta and Dallas, before they lapse back into 'Mississippi White Trash', sound exactly like Hillary Clinton, which, considering her scary background, makes sense. We're scaryfolk, too. Anyway, until the day he died, he still said "won't" ("waaauuuaaaeeent"), when he should have said "want". It was pitiful, considering he lived in the Midwest, where his bizarre, dipthong-laden Deep-Mississippi accent made him a freak. Imagine playing a Paul Ott Carruth record, in Kansas. That was his LIFE. He was a walking Paul Ott Carruth record - and he talked about eagles and other noble/schmalzy Carruth things - nonstop. One wonders whether his accent wasn't so distracting, that his rise in business and jurisprudence, had't been aided by it - like Magicians use tricks to distract.

He'd been beautiful, as a high school football hero. And, unlike the rest of us, he passed-for-White. But his last football practice was the last bit of exercise he ever got. Nor did he study nutrition. His life was a never-ending glucose spike. So, of course, the sugar ate his brain, and he died early, of cancer.

Was he imagining that Johnny Carson was his bud? (do YOU do that?) ...that this was his PEER GROUP - a bunch of men to chuckle with? Nobody in our family can figure it out. He may have been a pothead, as well as being a closet case, with Jeremiah Johnson and Kris Kristofferson fetishes. He and his wife listened to Joan Baez. And he was always telling the rest of us HOW BROKEN WE WERE. He was not, to my knowledge, ever a medicated mental patient, but your harangue reminds me of that uncle's lectures, actually...

@ the comment board: 7:12 please do your best to convince me you are not also 4:03. Wait! Save your time. No way you can do that.