Congressional hearings for the firing of Colbert? Really?

[red viking]

It was actually the top rated show for that time of night. Late shows are just all dying off. 

[ionel]

4 minutes ago, red viking said:

 Late shows are just all dying off. 

Due to the climate thing or the stock market crash?  

[mspart]

Well, they were funny.   Letterman was funny and weird and had funny and weird guests.   It was fun to watch.   Late night TV is no longer fun to watch.   Streaming probably has something to do with that, but they are just not funny anymore.   And with https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/alex-christy/2025/07/01/study-late-night-comedy-shows-begin-2025-99-percent-guests-being

For the men of the late night comedy talk shows, the first half of 2025 was an instance of history repeating itself. According to a NewsBusters study, 99 percent of their political guests were on the left, matching the result for the last six months of 2024.

The grand totals were 106 liberals and Democrats compared to one conservative.

The study looked at the five daily late night comedy shows: ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and Comedy Central’s The Daily Show from January 6 through June 30.

The genre is dying and that is because they have excluded half the potential audience. 

mspart

 

[Caveira]

Remember when Jimmy Kimmel was on the man show before he became woke woke ?    

[El Luchador]

2 hours ago, red viking said:

It was actually the top rated show for that time of night. Late shows are just all dying off. 

All network television is pure garbage.  Juvenile humor and low hanging fruit jokes. They want to use TV as a means to shape society but their product  is just garbage. 

[mspart]

Why watch that drivel when you can stream stuff you like to watch?   If the drivel was good, they could compete, but they can't compete with the product they deliver.   Anyone remember the Letterman and Joaquin interview that went off the rails?   Now that was funny stuff.   Johnny Carson and Don Rickles, or Robin Williams, or Rodney Dangerfield or a plethora of other funny funny people?   Now you get Colbert and Schumer.   Now that's a laugh a minute you betcha. 

mspart

[mspart]

Case in point!!   It's only a minute. 

mspart

[Wrestleknownothing]

Thank God for Speaker Johnson. He adjourned the House in the nick of time before a Colbert investigation could start.

To paraphrase Monty Python:

"When Epstein reared his ugly head,
He bravely turned his tail and fled,
Brave, brave, brave, brave, brave, brave Mike Johnson"

[headshuck]

Wait, I thought they adjourned to avoid voting on the release of Epstein files? So much smoke.

[Wrestleknownothing]

3 hours ago, headshuck said:

Wait, I thought they adjourned to avoid voting on the release of Epstein files? So much smoke.

Re-read the lyrics in quotes

[JimmySpeaks]

Monty Python.  Bahahahahahhahahahahahha

[Caveira]

Cool vid.   In hindsight wooot

No idea why they stopped watching him. 

[mspart]

It is a mystery.

mspart

[Doublehalf]

We are basically living in the MAGA cancel culture world right now... everything that offends maga = cancelled. 
 

Bud-lite

Drag shows

Books

NPR

NFL 

Electric Vehicles

Renewable Energy

Big tech until big tech helps them and then big tech again

Colbert

 

The list goes on and on... For a group that is all pro-free speech and yada yada they are more heavily into cancel culture than the dems were. The recent south park episode while on brand for South Park- the parent company really allowed them go hard to essentially provide cover to the narrative that they are doing Trumps bidding to get a multi-billion dollar merger approved which happened a week later. I find it very hard to believe the Late show was the big thing holding up the deal from happening on the balance sheet.... For those that don't know companies have "loss leaders" or products that they sell at a loss for consumer interest and to upstream them to more products with greater profit margins. This is not a new concept and Colbert was no different.. people watch Colbert or subscribe to the streaming service to see his show and then watch other shows. 

 

Edited 16 hours ago by Doublehalf

[Bigbrog]

2 minutes ago, Doublehalf said:

We are basically living in the MAGA cancel culture world right now... everything that offends maga = cancelled. 
 

Bud-lite

Drag shows

Books

NPR

NFL 

Electric Vehicles

Renewable Energy

Big tech until big tech helps them and then big tech again

Colbert

 

The list goes on and on... For a group that is all pro-free speech and yada yada they are more heavily into cancel culture than the dems were. 

 

Huh??  You just listed a bunch of things in regards to "cancel culture" with zero information on how they are related to "cancel culture".  Also, please define "cancel culture".

[Caveira]

4 minutes ago, Doublehalf said:

We are basically living in the MAGA cancel culture world right now... everything that offends maga = cancelled. 
 

Bud-lite

Drag shows

Books

NPR

NFL 

Electric Vehicles

Renewable Energy

Big tech until big tech helps them and then big tech again

Colbert

 

The list goes on and on... For a group that is all pro-free speech and yada yada they are more heavily into cancel culture than the dems were. 

 

Go woke go broke.  Or so they say.   

[Doublehalf]

1 minute ago, Bigbrog said:

Huh??  You just listed a bunch of things in regards to "cancel culture" with zero information on how they are related to "cancel culture".  Also, please define "cancel culture".

Bro.... come on... you know what cancel culture is because you all screamed about it when it happened when the shoe was on the other foot... Now the sides reverse and your response is seriously "how is it cancel culture?!?!?" And "define cancel culture!!!"

 

You are the party of cancel culture and it's obvious and doesn't need explaining.

[Doublehalf]

I forgot to add things like early/higher education into my list but I suppose I could think of a new thing every few minutes and I would just end up in here all day listing the things being cancelled by the GOP

[Caveira]

29 minutes ago, Doublehalf said:

I forgot to add things like early/higher education into my list but I suppose I could think of a new thing every few minutes and I would just end up in here all day listing the things being cancelled by the GOP

Censorship lol.  As if sex books about male on male BJs belong in schools.  That and drag queen parties.   
 

censorship is forcing Twitter and Facebook to take down posts that don’t agree with your political ideology to try to stay in power.  Keeping smut out of third graders hands is called decency.   

[Doublehalf]

53 minutes ago, Caveira said:

Censorship lol.  As if sex books about male on male BJs belong in schools.  That and drag queen parties.   

This is such a sensationalist joke. You act like it's part of a curriculum. If this is even remotely true it was probably some problem child kid that brought it in and he's probably from Mississippi... That's like you being mad when a liberal says all republicans just want to force feed Christ to every kid and ban any Muslim kid from attending school (probably happened in one school in Oklahoma somewhere) but it would be stupid of me to even argue that point because I know although a one off, is not true for the rest of the population...

I'm happy to debate and jab but don't come to the playground with that weak crap

Edited 15 hours ago by Doublehalf

[Doublehalf]

54 minutes ago, Caveira said:

censorship is forcing Twitter and Facebook to take down posts that don’t agree with your political ideology to try to stay in power.

At least you recognize that the GOP uses censorship... that's a start I suppose

[Offthemat]

Everything on the list is still available. 

[Doublehalf]

59 minutes ago, Offthemat said:

Everything on the list is still available. 

Yes because half the country doesn't have an issues with those things... Just because something is available doesn't mean it hasn't been a victim of cancel culture...  Dr Seuss books are also still available but we can agree the liberals tried to cancel certain books because of outdated racist tropes.... I swear the amount of playing dumb here about cancel culture is mind boggling.

At least liberals owned it when they cancelled people vs the GOP who pretends like they aren't.

[Offthemat]

1 hour ago, Doublehalf said:

Yes because half the country doesn't have an issues with those things...

I’d say nothing on your list (other than maybe big tech, due to its widespread use) enjoys support of anywhere near half the country.  There is no conservative cancel agenda, it’s simply that they resist spending money, through tax or personal purchases, that goes to support policies, programs, or products that they find morally reprehensible. 

[Doublehalf]

3 minutes ago, Offthemat said:

I’d say nothing on your list (other than maybe big tech, due to its widespread use) enjoys support of anywhere near half the country.  There is no conservative cancel agenda, it’s simply that they resist spending money, through tax or personal purchases, that goes to support policies, programs, or products that they find morally reprehensible. 

This is the most delusional post I've ever seen to say that there is no conservative cancel agenda haha... All you have to do is watch Fox News for 5 minutes to see this and it goes way back. 
 

If by some chance you are serious and not just trolling (which is largely the MAGA party platform under Trump) you really need to take a step back... The right has always been the party of the culture wars and cancel culture is a foundational part of that. The left has certainly gone too far with it on certain things in the past but to say there is no conservative agenda is one of the most naive things I've seen posted here.