Stewart and Colbert on "The Cancellation"

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On Monday, late night hosts responded to the news that “The Late Show” will end next May. Stephen Colbert gratefully acknowledged the outpouring of support he’d received since the announcement last Thursday, while also lamenting the grief and anger fans have been expressing.

“Folks, I’m going to go ahead and say it: Cancel culture has gone too far,” Colbert said, keeping a comical bent.

“I want to thank everybody who reached out to me over the weekend, including one text from an unknown number offering a high-paying I.T. work-from-home job for only two to three hours a day. Yes, I am very interested, and I will be sending you my routing number in May. Daddy needs a job.”

Both Colbert and his friend Jon Stewart offered a similarly expletive-laden response to CBS, while the latter admitted he is “certainly not the most objective to comment on this matter.” Stewart reminisced about his shared history with Colbert on “The Daily Show” back before Comedy Central launched “The Colbert Report” as a successful spinoff.

“We were two pretty good-sized fish in a reasonably small basic cable pond. Both of our shows reached an inflection point in 2015. Stephen chose to challenge himself by seeing if he could succeed the legendary David Letterman in, quite frankly, a much bigger pond than the one he and I had been swimming in, and I quit.”
And, if I may, watching Stephen exceed all expectations in the role, and become the No. 1 late night show on network television, has been an undeniable great pleasure for me as a viewer and as his friend.” — JON STEWART

“Well, over the weekend, somebody at CBS followed up their gracious press release with a gracious anonymous leak, saying they pulled the plug on our show because of losses pegged between $40 million and $50 million a year. Forty million’s a big number. I could see us losing $24 million, but where would Paramount have possibly spent the other $16 million … oh, yeah.” — STEPHEN COLBERT, referring to the $16 million Paramount agreed to pay President Trump to settle a lawsuit.


“I believe CBS lost the benefit of the doubt two weeks prior, when they sold out their flagship news program to pay an extortion fee to said president. At that time, poor Andy Rooney must have been rolling over in his bed. That’s right, he’s alive. Andy Rooney is alive.

So here’s the point: If you’re trying to figure out why Stephen’s show is ending, I don’t think the answer can be found in some smoking gun email or phone call from Trump to CBS executives, or in CBS’s QuickBooks spreadsheets on the financial health of late night. I think the answer in the fear and pre-compliance that is gripping all of America’s institutions at this very moment — institutions that have chosen not to fight the vengeful and vindictive actions of our pubic hair-doodling commander in chief. This is not the moment to give in. I’m not giving in! I’m not going anywhere — I think.” — JON STEWART

“And now, for the next 10 months, the gloves are off. Yeah! I can finally — I can finally speak unvarnished truth to power and say what I really think about Donald Trump, starting right now: I don’t care for him.
Doesn’t seem to have, like, the skill set. Doesn’t have the skill set to be president. You know, just not a good fit. That’s all.— STEPHEN COLBERT




 
wow you mean for the next year Colbert is going to "really" criticize Trump and MAGA?

well maybe you marxists will tune in and help his ratings

Funny that he admits to the show losing money

Do you think Stewart will have his show cancelled now? If he doesn't, doesn't that fly in the face of the accusations over Colbert's firing?
 
While I agree with Colbert's criticism and ridicule of trump, I never liked his show or his comedic style.

I stopped watching all late night TV talk shows about six months after he took over from Letterman.

Including Seth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon.

I can take Kimmel in small doses, but all of the current late night talk show hosts are mostly lame, unfunny, self righteous Gen X dipshits IMO.

Get rid of all of them and put something better in their place.
 
While I agree with Colbert's criticism and ridicule of trump, I never liked his show or his comedic style.

I stopped watching all late night TV talk shows about six months after he took over from Letterman.

Including Seth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon.

I can take Kimmel in small doses, but all of the current late night talk show hosts are mostly lame, unfunny, self righteous Gen X dipshits IMO.

Get rid of all of them and put something better in their place.
My feelings almost exactly! The crap that passes for comedy these days is pathetic.
 
While I agree with Colbert's criticism and ridicule of trump, I never liked his show or his comedic style.

I stopped watching all late night TV talk shows about six months after he took over from Letterman.

Including Seth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon.

I can take Kimmel in small doses, but all of the current late night talk show hosts are mostly lame, unfunny, self righteous Gen X dipshits IMO.

Get rid of all of them and put something better in their place.
Look at that. We agree on something
 
While I agree with Colbert's criticism and ridicule of trump, I never liked his show or his comedic style.

I stopped watching all late night TV talk shows about six months after he took over from Letterman.

Including Seth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon.

I can take Kimmel in small doses, but all of the current late night talk show hosts are mostly lame, unfunny, self righteous Gen X dipshits IMO.

Get rid of all of them and put something better in their place.
Colbert reminds me of Al Franken. Both were one-dimensional comics who had a specific routine that was funny for a bit but couldn't diversify. Both then tried their hand at being Progressive / Leftist commentators--supposedly comedic--and fell flat on their faces. Franken's Air America AM talk radio tried but nobody listened. Colbert has become the same way.
 
While I agree with Colbert's criticism and ridicule of trump, I never liked his show or his comedic style.

I stopped watching all late night TV talk shows about six months after he took over from Letterman.

Including Seth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon.

I can take Kimmel in small doses, but all of the current late night talk show hosts are mostly lame, unfunny, self righteous Gen X dipshits IMO.

Get rid of all of them and put something better in their place.
They did, Gutfeld.

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Colbert reminds me of Al Franken. Both were one-dimensional comics who had a specific routine that was funny for a bit but couldn't diversify. Both then tried their hand at being Progressive / Leftist commentators--supposedly comedic--and fell flat on their faces. Franken's Air America AM talk radio tried but nobody listened. Colbert has become the same way.

I thought Franken was light years above Colbert.

Say what you will about Al Franken, he came across (to me) as having a genuine sense of humility which Colbert lacks. Colbert on the surface, seems to buy into that haughty, snooty air he adopts. And even if he's just playing a part, like a character, it still isn't my cup of tea comedically.

I think Al Franken, whose wit and humor is much more subtle and understated, would have made a much better host for that show.

But that over the top style of Colbert seems to be what younger people nowadays want

Whatever.

I don't watch any of it anymore.
 
They did, Gutfeld.

Don't know anything about him, but if you like him I can only assume he's as much of a partisan right-wing hack as Colbert is a partisan left-wing hack.

I don't think late night talk show hosts should be partisan or obsessed with politics in either direction.

Come on the air, open with a funny monologue about current events, toss in a little dab of politics, go to the desk, do a couple of funny writer skits, then go to the guest portion of the show for the second half of it.
 
I thought Franken was light years above Colbert.

Say what you will about Al Franken, he came across (to me) as having a genuine sense of humility which Colbert lacks. Colbert on the surface, seems to buy into that haughty, snooty air he adopts. And even if he's just playing a part, like a character, it still isn't my cup of tea comedically.

I think Al Franken, whose wit and humor is much more subtle and understated, would have made a much better host for that show.

But that over the top style of Colbert seems to be what younger people nowadays want

Whatever.

I don't watch any of it anymore.
I used to listen to Air America to the extent I could tolerate it.

Franken impressed me as being just full of shit but largely clueless. Randi Rhodes was a drunk asshole (she admitted more than once she was drinking while on the air). Stephanie Miller was a ranting lunatic (investigated for threats on air against George Bush). The only one I really could tolerate and at least think had reasonable points was Thom Hartmann.
 
As recently as 2018, broadcast networks took in an estimated $439 million in advertising revenue for its late-night programs, according to the advertising firm Guidelines. Last year, that number dwindled to $220 million.

In inflation adjusted dollars the situation is even worse.
 
I have not watched late nite tv talk shows in almost three decades, but based upon commentary I have seen I wonder if this is the same situation as the death of newspapers, where the underlying problem is that quality was gutted, there is very little value on offer.
 
I have not watched late nite tv talk shows in almost three decades, but based upon commentary I have seen I wonder if this is the same situation as the death of newspapers, where the underlying problem is that quality was gutted, there is very little value on offer.

An ironic observation considering the lousy quality in so called news coverage currently. Newspapers, on the other hand, are as good or better as they were fifty years ago when everyone read them. Digital media drove out the smaller dailys and now owns the medium.
 
On Monday, late night hosts responded to the news that “The Late Show” will end next May. Stephen Colbert gratefully acknowledged the outpouring of support he’d received since the announcement last Thursday, while also lamenting the grief and anger fans have been expressing.

“Folks, I’m going to go ahead and say it: Cancel culture has gone too far,” Colbert said, keeping a comical bent.

“I want to thank everybody who reached out to me over the weekend, including one text from an unknown number offering a high-paying I.T. work-from-home job for only two to three hours a day. Yes, I am very interested, and I will be sending you my routing number in May. Daddy needs a job.”

Both Colbert and his friend Jon Stewart offered a similarly expletive-laden response to CBS, while the latter admitted he is “certainly not the most objective to comment on this matter.” Stewart reminisced about his shared history with Colbert on “The Daily Show” back before Comedy Central launched “The Colbert Report” as a successful spinoff.

“We were two pretty good-sized fish in a reasonably small basic cable pond. Both of our shows reached an inflection point in 2015. Stephen chose to challenge himself by seeing if he could succeed the legendary David Letterman in, quite frankly, a much bigger pond than the one he and I had been swimming in, and I quit.”
And, if I may, watching Stephen exceed all expectations in the role, and become the No. 1 late night show on network television, has been an undeniable great pleasure for me as a viewer and as his friend.” — JON STEWART

“Well, over the weekend, somebody at CBS followed up their gracious press release with a gracious anonymous leak, saying they pulled the plug on our show because of losses pegged between $40 million and $50 million a year. Forty million’s a big number. I could see us losing $24 million, but where would Paramount have possibly spent the other $16 million … oh, yeah.” — STEPHEN COLBERT, referring to the $16 million Paramount agreed to pay President Trump to settle a lawsuit.


“I believe CBS lost the benefit of the doubt two weeks prior, when they sold out their flagship news program to pay an extortion fee to said president. At that time, poor Andy Rooney must have been rolling over in his bed. That’s right, he’s alive. Andy Rooney is alive.

So here’s the point: If you’re trying to figure out why Stephen’s show is ending, I don’t think the answer can be found in some smoking gun email or phone call from Trump to CBS executives, or in CBS’s QuickBooks spreadsheets on the financial health of late night. I think the answer in the fear and pre-compliance that is gripping all of America’s institutions at this very moment — institutions that have chosen not to fight the vengeful and vindictive actions of our pubic hair-doodling commander in chief. This is not the moment to give in. I’m not giving in! I’m not going anywhere — I think.” — JON STEWART

“And now, for the next 10 months, the gloves are off. Yeah! I can finally — I can finally speak unvarnished truth to power and say what I really think about Donald Trump, starting right now: I don’t care for him.
Doesn’t seem to have, like, the skill set. Doesn’t have the skill set to be president. You know, just not a good fit. That’s all.— STEPHEN COLBERT



lol a couple of conceited losers whing and pretending' itz duh soots what did us in n stuff!!!', a sop to their more stupid and gullible fan base.
 
I have not watched late nite tv talk shows in almost three decades, but based upon commentary I have seen I wonder if this is the same situation as the death of newspapers, where the underlying problem is that quality was gutted, there is very little value on offer.

lol 'Journalism' schools became a joke, just a bunch of Hunter Thompson doper wannabees trying to relive the 1960's, like all the little commie puppets on the left do.

Blame it on the contrails. lol
 
I thought Franken was light years above Colbert.

Say what you will about Al Franken, he came across (to me) as having a genuine sense of humility which Colbert lacks. Colbert on the surface, seems to buy into that haughty, snooty air he adopts. And even if he's just playing a part, like a character, it still isn't my cup of tea comedically.

I think Al Franken, whose wit and humor is much more subtle and understated, would have made a much better host for that show.

But that over the top style of Colbert seems to be what younger people nowadays want

Whatever.

I don't watch any of it anymore.

FRanken is an asshole. Still is. No wonder he makes you horny.
 
On Monday, late night hosts responded to the news that “The Late Show” will end next May. Stephen Colbert gratefully acknowledged the outpouring of support he’d received since the announcement last Thursday, while also lamenting the grief and anger fans have been expressing.

“Folks, I’m going to go ahead and say it: Cancel culture has gone too far,” Colbert said, keeping a comical bent.

“I want to thank everybody who reached out to me over the weekend, including one text from an unknown number offering a high-paying I.T. work-from-home job for only two to three hours a day. Yes, I am very interested, and I will be sending you my routing number in May. Daddy needs a job.”

Both Colbert and his friend Jon Stewart offered a similarly expletive-laden response to CBS, while the latter admitted he is “certainly not the most objective to comment on this matter.” Stewart reminisced about his shared history with Colbert on “The Daily Show” back before Comedy Central launched “The Colbert Report” as a successful spinoff.

“We were two pretty good-sized fish in a reasonably small basic cable pond. Both of our shows reached an inflection point in 2015. Stephen chose to challenge himself by seeing if he could succeed the legendary David Letterman in, quite frankly, a much bigger pond than the one he and I had been swimming in, and I quit.”
And, if I may, watching Stephen exceed all expectations in the role, and become the No. 1 late night show on network television, has been an undeniable great pleasure for me as a viewer and as his friend.” — JON STEWART

“Well, over the weekend, somebody at CBS followed up their gracious press release with a gracious anonymous leak, saying they pulled the plug on our show because of losses pegged between $40 million and $50 million a year. Forty million’s a big number. I could see us losing $24 million, but where would Paramount have possibly spent the other $16 million … oh, yeah.” — STEPHEN COLBERT, referring to the $16 million Paramount agreed to pay President Trump to settle a lawsuit.


“I believe CBS lost the benefit of the doubt two weeks prior, when they sold out their flagship news program to pay an extortion fee to said president. At that time, poor Andy Rooney must have been rolling over in his bed. That’s right, he’s alive. Andy Rooney is alive.

So here’s the point: If you’re trying to figure out why Stephen’s show is ending, I don’t think the answer can be found in some smoking gun email or phone call from Trump to CBS executives, or in CBS’s QuickBooks spreadsheets on the financial health of late night. I think the answer in the fear and pre-compliance that is gripping all of America’s institutions at this very moment — institutions that have chosen not to fight the vengeful and vindictive actions of our pubic hair-doodling commander in chief. This is not the moment to give in. I’m not giving in! I’m not going anywhere — I think.” — JON STEWART

“And now, for the next 10 months, the gloves are off. Yeah! I can finally — I can finally speak unvarnished truth to power and say what I really think about Donald Trump, starting right now: I don’t care for him.
Doesn’t seem to have, like, the skill set. Doesn’t have the skill set to be president. You know, just not a good fit. That’s all.— STEPHEN COLBERT


Colbert finally made me laugh when he started whining about being canceled despite the fact the show was 40 million in the red. But Trump's fault???

:magagrin:
 
While I agree with Colbert's criticism and ridicule of trump, I never liked his show or his comedic style.

I stopped watching all late night TV talk shows about six months after he took over from Letterman.

Including Seth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon.

I can take Kimmel in small doses, but all of the current late night talk show hosts are mostly lame, unfunny, self righteous Gen X dipshits IMO.

Get rid of all of them and put something better in their place.
It's absolutely absurd to even suggest that the networks are going to put on something better.
Over the TV TV and Cable alike are already on their death beds.
They're both reduced to crap already.

Everything will be on streaming,
and one will need to subscribe to seven or eight services
just to occasionally find something half-decent to watch.

Digital technology could have been practically helpful.
Instead, the currently devolved human population used it like the species of pathetic assholes that it's become.

We're in a dark age, and our species is unlikely to survive long enough to see another renaissance.
Right now, I defy anyone to present a reasoned argument
that our impending extinction won't be a good thing.

Maybe those who weren't around for much better times--
times that admittedly left enormous room for critical improvements that mostly never came--
don't reason how badly civilization has deteriorated.

TV, for whatever it was ever worth, is certainly a valid example.
 
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