CBS, Now Under New Ownership: We're Cancelling Stephen Colbert's Little-Watched Extremist Leftwing Propaganda Orgy and As a Matter of Fact We're Done With the Whole Late Night Talk Show Format

Andrew Breitbart around 2011: "In five years, it's all gone! The networks, gone! CNN, gone! MSNBC, gone! It's all going down in five years!"

He was wrong.

But he was close.

Newsweek had just reported this was a possibility:

Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are the liberal faces of their networks, Comedy Central and CBS, respectively. They've been fixtures on the television circuit for decades. But under the second Trump administration and ahead of Paramount's proposed merger with Skydance Media, their futures seem uncertain.
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So why is the future specifically uncertain for the liberal faces of CBS and Comedy Central? It comes down, in part down to the Paramount-Skydance merger, and Paramount's recent settling of a lawsuit with Trump.
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Skydance was founded by David Ellison in 2006, and his father, Larry Ellison, co-founder of the Oracle Corporation, is also involved in the operation of the company. Larry Ellison is investing $6 billion into the merger and is putting up a majority stake in the deal, according to a 2024 report from The Hill. Both men are Trump supporters.
Newsweek spoke with Matt Navarra, a news personality and social media consultant, about the shifting media landscape and the potential implications on Stewart and Colbert.
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Newsweek also spoke with Rodney Benson, a professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication and an affiliated faculty member of the Department of Sociology at New York University. He said that "In a future company controlled by Skydance, it's easy to imagine that Stewart's and Colbert's shows could be short-lived."

The old unfunny TV clowns may wind up... doing podcasts. Like all the rest of the Old Media Dinosaurs.

So, what could be an alternative to these old structures? "The thing to watch for is them signing first-look deals with Netflix, HBO or Audible, places that value strong, editorial voices," Navarra said.
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Navarra also pointed to "podcasts, streaming or independent media," where "permissionless speech will thrive."
Benson, meanwhile, said that, "It's possible to imagine that either show might find a home at Comcast's cable spinoff Versant, either as part of MSNBC or another channel. But Versant may not be particularly eager to be next in line to face the full-scale political wrath of this administration."

Ten days ago, Colbert -- probably already knowing his show was to be cancelled -- got "brave" and attacked his employer for settling with Trump. So that he can claim it was his decision to quit.

Stephen Colbert riffed Paramount Global's $16 million settlement of Donald Trump's lawsuit, calling the payment a "big fat bribe" and joking about the prospects that new owner Skydance will try pressure him to back off from humor directed at the president.
In a clip from Monday's The Late Show posted on social media, Colbert joked in his monologue, "As someone who has always been a proud employee of this network, I am offended, and I don't know if anything will ever repair my trust in this company. But just taking a stab at it, I'd say $16 million would help."

That is Classic Colbert, by which I mean, it's not funny and sounds like it was written by a retard.

And now: CBS is canceling his show.

Don't get too exited -- he has ten months left before they boot him out.

Though I betcha they'll "mutually agree" to an earlier departure. All Stephen Colbert's decision, doncha know.

Incidentally: Late night "comedy" talk shows are now officially D E A D. CBS isn't just sh*tcanning Colbert, they're sh*tcanning the whole expensive, unpopular talk show format.

TV's ongoing problems with late night have come for Stephen Colbert, with CBS announcing Thursday that it plans to end his "Late Show" after the next TV season, citing a "financial decision."
The decision -- which ends years of original late-night programming at CBS that started when the network lured David Letterman from NBC in 1993 -- comes as the economics of wee-hours TV have begun to accelerate, with media companies growing wary of the high price tags involved in producing the shows while the young viewers they try to attract watch more of them via digital video.

"We consider Stephen Colbert irreplaceable and will retire 'The Late Show' franchise" in May of 2026," CBS executives said in a statement. "We are proud that Stephen called CBS home. He and the broadcast will be remembered in the pantheon of greats that graced late night television. This is 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."

Can we say that Stephen Colbert's radioactive levels of unfunniness killed the entire late show format?

I think we can!

Jimmy Kimmel is already suspected of being on the chopping block -- no one's extending his contract. Jimmy Fallon is a phony bore. Seth Meyers -- you forgot about him, didn't you? -- has been delivering MSNBC/Maddow-style political lectures instead of comedy jokes for years.

They're all done. All of them.

Below, Black Conservative Perspective again, with Stephen Colbert boohoo whinin' and cryin' that his unfunny ratings-basement show is being cancelled.

Well he's not really crying. He's pretending it's all cool with him because he doesn't want to take the additional status hit of crying like a bitch on top of being told he's no longer needed.

He also has a clip of Colbert attacking Paramount on July 7th -- most likely, after he was told they were going to shut his shit-show down, so all of a sudden he felt like a big strong brave boy.

A reminder of what we've lost:

Posted by: Ace at 02:18 PM

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1 Bye,bye

Posted by: It's me donna at July 18, 2025 02:19 PM (VE6XX)

2 Good.
I hate that smug, blasphemous fucker.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 18, 2025 02:19 PM (xcxpd)

3 I hear commercial fishing in global-warming caused storms is a growth business.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 18, 2025 02:20 PM (AYA0R)

4 I'll miss those dancing Hypodermic needles....

Posted by: It's me donna at July 18, 2025 02:21 PM (VE6XX)

5 unfunny man unemployed.

News at 11

Posted by: Rick in SK at July 18, 2025 02:21 PM (FZYNt)

6 How do you make those bird fingers?

Posted by: JERRY NADLER at July 18, 2025 02:21 PM (5yGIt)

7 Who?

Posted by: Most people at July 18, 2025 02:21 PM (GT546)

8 Incidentally: Late night "comedy" talk shows are now officially D E A D. CBS isn't just sh*tcanning Colbert, they're sh*tcanning the whole expensive, unpopular talk show format.

They are going to replace it with a late night game show: "Who Can We Catch Cheating At A Coldplay Concert?"

Posted by: rickb223 at July 18, 2025 02:21 PM (k3Vs9)

9 All you had to do was tell jokes, but somehow you managed to f*ck that up.

Oh well, here's your cardboard box.

I'm sure there are literally DOZENS of fans eagerly awaiting your soon-to-be-launched podcast.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at July 18, 2025 02:22 PM (8CeIY)

10 You know Jimmy Fallon is funny because he laughs at his own jokes.

Posted by: toby928 at July 18, 2025 02:22 PM (jc0TO)

11 Breitbart's heart didn't kill itself.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 18, 2025 02:22 PM (+nopg)

12 Gutfeld seems to be doing fine.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 18, 2025 02:23 PM (cduTK)

13 good idea, I added the "Vax Scene" dance. Hilarious.

Posted by: ace at July 18, 2025 02:23 PM (KRtlO)

14 CBS? Fake, but accurate.

Posted by: Dan Rather at July 18, 2025 02:23 PM (GT546)

15 Breitbart's heart didn't kill itself.
Posted by: BurtTC

Just like Jeffrey Epstein.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 18, 2025 02:23 PM (k3Vs9)

16 Too funny....Schlichter gives Kaboom cereal a shout out in his new book.

Posted by: citizen khan at July 18, 2025 02:23 PM (6T7qG)

17 LOL get fucked

Posted by: steevy at July 18, 2025 02:23 PM (YwEeS)

18 The usual suspects are out whining but the truth is, nobody really cares. All fifteen of Colbert's fans are upset but nobody was watching. Nobody wanted to advertise on the show. No one is affected here except a few people working directly on the show. Colbert will show up on MSNBC or CNN somewhere, he'll always have work for his loyal obedience.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 18, 2025 02:23 PM (dfIr7)

19 He's still a rich tard.

Posted by: sTevo at July 18, 2025 02:23 PM (sCXVB)

20 >>16 Too funny....Schlichter gives Kaboom cereal a shout out in his new book.

ha... I saw Alex the Chick mention an AoS reference.

Posted by: ace at July 18, 2025 02:24 PM (KRtlO)

21 Nobody watches TV anymore.

Posted by: Streaming. Check it out at July 18, 2025 02:24 PM (GT546)

22 good idea, I added the "Vax Scene" dance. Hilarious.
Posted by: ace at July 18, 2025 02:23 PM

A Trope! A Trope!

Posted by: The Knights that say Trope at July 18, 2025 02:24 PM (jc0TO)

23 After prime time, just turn things over to the local stations. News, weather , sports (used to be 20 minutes) and then show a lame movie brought to you by Andy's Septic Service or Fat Jack's Used Cars (we finance).

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 18, 2025 02:24 PM (gm9Sb)

24 Ellison just moved up to 2nd richest man in the world.

Posted by: polynikes at July 18, 2025 02:25 PM (VofaG)

25 But John Oliver's still funny, right?

Posted by: Nobody, either at July 18, 2025 02:25 PM (PiwSw)

26 One of the antenna TV cable channels (I forget which) has Johnny Carson reruns. I enjoy watching them when I'm at my mom's house.

I never, ever watch the current ones because they suck the Big Wazoo.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 18, 2025 02:25 PM (P845J)

27 Breitbart's heart didn't kill itself.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 18, 2025 02:22 PM (+nopg)
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Jogging did it for me.

Posted by: Zombie Breitbart at July 18, 2025 02:25 PM (ypiOQ)

28 We may never see Colbert's comedic recipe of equal parts smug and soy ever again.

Posted by: Oglebay at July 18, 2025 02:25 PM (2ap+5)

29 I saw somebody on teevee recently, and said "Oh, he looks like that comedian," and I couldn't think of the name of the guy.

The person I was watching with started naming off late night hosts. I said "No, a comedian," and this person couldn't understand, those people aren't comedians.

But any time I go on a rant about anything I get the "Oh, you think you know everything."

I'm like... no, I just don't get my head filled with lies and propaganda, because I don't watch teevee.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 18, 2025 02:25 PM (UeosB)

30 But John Oliver's still funny, right?
Posted by: Nobody, either at July 18, 2025 02:25 PM (PiwSw)

To his credit he was funny on Community.

Posted by: polynikes at July 18, 2025 02:25 PM (VofaG)

31 I hope he does one more dance number with the syringes. It will bring all of his clapping seals much needed relief until his podcast is available for download.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at July 18, 2025 02:26 PM (5yDGQ)

32 Oh dear. Those male dancers are wearing minidresses and platform go-go boots.

Where's the eye bleach?

Posted by: Emmie at July 18, 2025 02:26 PM (FMtrg)

33 PBS CEO and President Paula Kerger said Thursday that the move to cut public broadcasting "goes against the will of the American people, the vast majority of whom trust PBS and believe we provide excellent value to their communities."
____

Big, if true.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 18, 2025 02:26 PM (Dv3i1)

34 Jogging did it for me.
Posted by: Zombie Breitbart at July 18, 2025 02:25 PM (ypiOQ)

Having someone drop a pill in his drink didn't help either.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 18, 2025 02:27 PM (UeosB)

35 The network should rerun Carson.

Posted by: sTevo at July 18, 2025 02:27 PM (sCXVB)

36 32 Oh, wait. At least one of the dancers is female.

Posted by: Emmie at July 18, 2025 02:27 PM (FMtrg)

37 To his credit he was funny on Community.

EVERYBODY was funny on Community.

Well, not Chevy Chase. But everyone else.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at July 18, 2025 02:28 PM (8CeIY)

38 That Vax-Scene thing (he did SEVERAL OF THEM) was so bad, even people who violently supported getting the shot were cringing and couldn't bear to watch. Imagine being in the audience forced to sit through that. Its like a black hole of humiliation, infinitely closing in on its self and drawing everything nearby it into the cringe.

Its interesting, because deliberately cringy stuff can be funny, a lot of humor is based on that (Ron Schneider's entire career), but there's a line that it stops being ironically funny and becomes just awful.

Colbert found that line and leaped over it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 18, 2025 02:28 PM (dfIr7)

39 So Stephen Colbert is the Big Mike of talk show hosts. His entire job will see to exist once he's gone just like Mike's job at the Chicago Hospital.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 18, 2025 02:28 PM (egMwa)

40 She "trust" and "PBS" in the same sentence?

Posted by: Don't ever do that at July 18, 2025 02:28 PM (GT546)

41 How much money does the "shrew view" make for ABC and when can we expect it be canned too?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 18, 2025 02:28 PM (Q4IgG)

42 Oh, wait. At least one of the dancers is female.
Posted by: Emmie at July 18, 2025 02:27 PM

Are you a biologist?

Posted by: toby928 at July 18, 2025 02:28 PM (jc0TO)

43 Just like Jeffrey Epstein.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 18, 2025 02:23 PM (k3Vs9)

These days I'm really leaning toward Epstein's still alive.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 18, 2025 02:28 PM (UeosB)

44 Late night TV was better served with the Indian Chief test pattern.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 18, 2025 02:28 PM (gm9Sb)

45 Johnny Carson watching late night TV over the past 25 years:

You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 18, 2025 02:28 PM (wVcYX)

46 Speaking of Colbert....
@mazemoore
A beautiful four-part story.

https://tinyurl.com/3kjmamje

Posted by: redridinghood at July 18, 2025 02:29 PM (NpAcC)

47 Ace:

"Can we say that Stephen Colbert's radioactive levels of unfunniness killed the entire late show format?

I think we can!"

Rats! My new geiger counter arrived yesterday.

Posted by: mrp at July 18, 2025 02:29 PM (rj6Yv)

48 Jogging did it for me.
Posted by: Zombie Breitbart at July 18, 2025 02:25 PM (ypiOQ)

Oh you think that hurt *your* image?

Posted by: Zombie James Fixx at July 18, 2025 02:29 PM (PiwSw)

49 Speaking of free speech, how do say "Orwellian" in French?

https://is.gd/aWDmid

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 18, 2025 02:29 PM (L/fGl)

50 >>>Well, not Chevy Chase. But everyone else.

and not shirley

Posted by: ace at July 18, 2025 02:29 PM (KRtlO)

51 I will give Jon Stewart credit for doing The Audacity of Grope .

I still don't understand why that video wasn't run on a loop by the Trump campaign.

Posted by: polynikes at July 18, 2025 02:30 PM (VofaG)

52 These days I'm really leaning toward Epstein's still alive.

I keep saying he's hanging out with Elvis.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 18, 2025 02:30 PM (P845J)

53 EVERYBODY was funny on Community.

Well, not Chevy Chase. But everyone else.
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at July 18, 2025 02:28 PM (8CeIY)

Quality writing will do that.

Chase wasn't funny, but it sure was hilarious seeing everyone else bounce things off of him, like he's a basketball rim without a net.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 18, 2025 02:30 PM (UeosB)

54 Cease not see . Jeez

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 18, 2025 02:30 PM (egMwa)

55 The only recent late night guy I liked was Craig Ferguson. But it might have been his accent, as I have only seen reruns. When he was not chosen to replace David Letterman I protested by not watching anything, even reruns, ever again. Kimmel is a twit.

Colbert has a bent ear from his mother not placing in the crib correctly. I have never found him funny at all.

I hope they all go screeching like harpies into the night.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 18, 2025 02:31 PM (6PCLE)

56 and not shirley

Come on, now. You're just trolling for Airplane quotes now, aren't you...

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at July 18, 2025 02:31 PM (8CeIY)

57 "Navarra also pointed to "podcasts, streaming or independent media," where "permissionless speech will thrive."

Benson, meanwhile, said that, "It's possible to imagine that either show might find a home at Comcast's cable spinoff Versant, either as part of MSNBC or another channel. But Versant may not be particularly eager to be next in line to face the full-scale political wrath of this administration.""

Yeah you nailed it. It's Trump getting you cancelled.

Not your ratings, no. It's all that pressure from Trump.

Posted by: eleven at July 18, 2025 02:31 PM (fV+MH)

58 Pretty soon you'll be able to see Colbert, Anderson Cooper, Fallon, and all those other TV metrosexual boors sitting on stair stoops in Washington Square and sharing crack pipes with each other.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 18, 2025 02:31 PM (iZPC/)

59 and not shirley
Posted by: ace at July 18, 2025 02:29 PM (KRtlO)

She also played the straight character to bounce things off of, IMO.

Posted by: polynikes at July 18, 2025 02:31 PM (VofaG)

60 I used to like Steven Colbert's "remotes" on early Daily Show, before Desert Storm basically. He was funny and poked at stuff I liked but did it humorously and in a way that made him look like a dork. Somewhere along the way (probably lost his writers) he lost that ability and just became smug and annoying.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 18, 2025 02:32 PM (dfIr7)

61 I keep saying he's hanging out with Elvis.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 18, 2025 02:30 PM (P845J)

I'm sure Elvis is dead, but you know what? If you tell me he had ties to the CIA, I'd be open to listening to the conspiracies about it being faked.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 18, 2025 02:32 PM (UeosB)

62 Are you a biologist?
Posted by: toby928 at July 18, 2025 02:28 PM (jc0TO)

Ha!

Posted by: Emmie at July 18, 2025 02:32 PM (FMtrg)

63 I hear this from all sides often in regard to the Late Night "Comedy" shows from Colbert, Kimmel, Fallon: "They really aren't that left, they just have to cater to their lefty audience. Kimmel is actually based..." etc., etc.

OK, well if you have to cater to your gay audience by promoting all the gay stuffs, and you capitulate on some personal beliefs to satisfy your gay audience, fine. But, when you go out and start sucking dick to satisfy your gay audience I'm just going to assume you're not "just doing it for the show".

Posted by: Croaker at July 18, 2025 02:32 PM (+BcZI)

64 The only thing more unbelievable than how much these puppets were being paid is that they all have a whole staff of writers to come up with the "jokes."

Like, watching the Daily Show back in the day and I was like, "this, this is their best?"

A fart noise soundboard on your local morning drive radio station is more creative and funny than the whole of late night TV.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 18, 2025 02:33 PM (uEVfM)

65 The fact that Colbert is getting canned is the only thing I've ever found funny about him.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at July 18, 2025 02:33 PM (k9OZB)

66 Another positive benefit of terminating USAIDS.

Posted by: Cray Cray at July 18, 2025 02:33 PM (pzqhe)

67 I remember when Tom Snyder's The Late Late Show was revolutionary. Imagine having TV after all the other stations had broadcast High Flight.

Posted by: toby928 at July 18, 2025 02:33 PM (jc0TO)

68 The paintball episode of Community is arguably some of the best stuff ever put on TV, outside of Breaking Bad and Ted Lasso...

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at July 18, 2025 02:33 PM (8CeIY)

69 he only recent late night guy I liked was Craig Ferguson. But it might have been his accent, as I have only seen reruns.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 18, 2025 02:31 PM (6PCLE)
===============
He quit his TV show a decade ago. No idea where he is these days, but if he's doing stand up I'd buy a ticket right along with you.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 18, 2025 02:33 PM (iZPC/)

70 to misquote king barky 0, don't you think a guy like colbert has made enough that he could just retire and enjoy the rest of his life?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 18, 2025 02:33 PM (CWTWj)

71 No way these shows made money, it was the same business model as giving the Obamas some book that would never be profitable.

20+ years ago, Jay Leno and the Tonight Show made money. These shows are just about placating the political establishment.

John Oliver on HBO is another one that is vastly overpaid for the audience it actually gets. Also not funny

Posted by: Leupold at July 18, 2025 02:34 PM (4pwAx)

72 37 To his credit he was funny on Community.

EVERYBODY was funny on Community.

Well, not Chevy Chase. But everyone else.
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at July 18, 2025 02:28 PM (8CeIY)

When you realize that the Chevy Chase character on Community was basically Chevy Chase, his character becomes funny because he is that big of an asshole in real life.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at July 18, 2025 02:34 PM (k1E2D)

73 and not shirley
Posted by: ace at July 18, 2025 02:29 PM (KRtlO)

She also played the straight character to bounce things off of, IMO.
Posted by: polynikes at July 18, 2025 02:31 PM (VofaG)

Also, Annie's boobs.

Not funny, but I sure wish I could bounce something off them too.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 18, 2025 02:34 PM (UeosB)

74 This might be germane to the discussion:

https://is.gd/h0W1KX

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 18, 2025 02:34 PM (PiwSw)

75 The paintball episode of Community is arguably some of the best stuff ever put on TV, outside of Breaking Bad and Ted Lasso...
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at July 18, 2025 02:33 PM (8CeIY)

They had two of them.

Posted by: polynikes at July 18, 2025 02:34 PM (VofaG)

76 NPR/PBS and Late Night with Stephen Colbert wiped out on the same day. July 17, now and forever more, shall be known as Julyteenth.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 18, 2025 02:34 PM (NXz8h)

77 The new management should have considered some type of spoof on the late night talk show, something Space Ghost or Sammy Maudlin.

I probably would have tuned in at least once to see what it was about. And I haven't watched a late night talk show in over 20 years.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at July 18, 2025 02:34 PM (5yDGQ)

78 They all suck, but in my opinion, the absolute worst is Seth Meyers. I saw his show (a few minutes, anyway) once.
Once.
The man has an extremely punchable sneer face. And his "jokes" were so unfunny that they were offensive.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at July 18, 2025 02:35 PM (p4vyY)

79 The only recent late night guy I liked was Craig Ferguson. But it might have been his accent, as I have only seen reruns.

He was genuinely fun and silly and smart at the same time. Every show was just a joy to watch.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 18, 2025 02:35 PM (dfIr7)

80 Remember when the Food Channel was all about cooking well. Now its all about cooking fast.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 18, 2025 02:35 PM (W3T6M)

81 I'm convinced that all of these late-night "comedy" shows weren't really shows at all. They were political donations in kind to Democraps to keep on their good sides.

Government agencies like FCC and others have yuge power over broadcasters. Life or death. So the broadcasters put on a few (money-losing) shows that basically pimp for leftwing bureaucrats and related skunkfuck fags. Keeps the regulators away.

It's just like all those pharma ads on TV are not really ads so much as bribes to keep the big TV companies from running negative stories about Big Drug.

I don't think this is a coincidence that all these "comedy" shows are being cancelled at a time when USAID and other slushfunds are being shitcanned.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 18, 2025 02:36 PM (iFTx/)

82 I hope Stephen tries to be relevant again to the left by taking the bullet they are calling for.

And so many lefty podcasts, so little time....

And masochistic tendencies....

Posted by: Stateless - HAPPY NOT HOMELESS! - New Life Creation 13.7 % at July 18, 2025 02:36 PM (jvJvP)

83 I remember when Tom Snyder's The Late Late Show was revolutionary. Imagine having TV after all the other stations had broadcast High Flight.
Posted by: toby928 at July 18, 2025 02:33 PM (jc0TO)

Cool people hanging out and chain smoking.

Posted by: mrp at July 18, 2025 02:36 PM (rj6Yv)

84 I hate that smug, blasphemous fucker."

Hmm. I don't think of him at all...

Posted by: man at July 18, 2025 02:36 PM (m5/ie)

85 They all suck, but in my opinion, the absolute worst is Seth Meyers. I saw his show (a few minutes, anyway) once.
Once.
The man has an extremely punchable sneer face. And his "jokes" were so unfunny that they were offensive.
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at July 18, 2025 02:35 PM

and yet he can write funny even if he can't deliver it.

Some people just shouldn't be seen.

Posted by: toby928 at July 18, 2025 02:36 PM (jc0TO)

86 I really hope Kimmel is next. A smarmy, unfunny condescending little shit. Fallon is a local guy so I have to root for him , but he never struck me as very funny either

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 18, 2025 02:36 PM (egMwa)

87 I keep saying he's hanging out with Elvis.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 18, 2025 02:30 PM (P845J)

I'm sure Elvis is dead, but you know what? If you tell me he had ties to the CIA, I'd be open to listening to the conspiracies about it being faked.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 18, 2025 02:32 PM (UeosB)

Elvis was a DEA agent. Truth. He worked for Nixon.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 18, 2025 02:36 PM (wVcYX)

88 Remember when the Food Channel was all about cooking well. Now its all about cooking fast.

Remember when the History Channel was about history?

Now it's all about Bigfoot and aliens. This is one of the reasons cable tv is failing.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at July 18, 2025 02:37 PM (8CeIY)

89 I keep saying he's hanging out with Elvis.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 18, 2025 02:30 PM (P845J)

I'm sure Elvis is dead, but you know what? If you tell me he had ties to the CIA, I'd be open to listening to the conspiracies about it being faked.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 18, 2025 02:32 PM (UeosB)

Elvis was a DEA agent. Truth. He worked for Nixon.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 18, 2025 02:36 PM (wVcYX)
_____

Elvis was Mossad

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 18, 2025 02:37 PM (iFTx/)

90 The only recent late night guy I liked was Craig Ferguson. But it might have been his accent, as I have only seen reruns.
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He was genuinely fun and silly and smart at the same time. Every show was just a joy to watch.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 18, 2025 02:35 PM (dfIr7)

Only thing I've ever seen of him is Yootoob shorts, where he's interviewing some celeb chick, whose dangling a shoe, and wearing a skirt short enough to show her pubes, if she had any.

Which she doesn't.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 18, 2025 02:37 PM (OttqY)

91 Alison Brie on Community really didnt age well imo.

She was a total smokeshow on that show, but the last few things I've seen her in, just really looks old.

Posted by: Leupold at July 18, 2025 02:37 PM (4pwAx)

92 The only recent late night guy I liked was Craig Ferguson.
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Wasn't he the one that would flirt with and hit on the attractive female guests?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 18, 2025 02:37 PM (uEVfM)

93 I liked the David Letterman show when it first came out. The guy under the stands ( Chris Elliot ) was a fun continuing bit. I also liked the top ten list and stupid pet tricks.

Posted by: polynikes at July 18, 2025 02:37 PM (VofaG)

94 Ted Lasso...
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at July 18, 2025 02:33 PM (8CeIY)
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My wife watches Ted Lasso sometimes at night to put herself to sleep. It works like a charm.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 18, 2025 02:38 PM (iZPC/)

95 76 NPR/PBS and Late Night with Stephen Colbert wiped out on the same day. July 17, now and forever more, shall be known as Julyteenth.

+++

Awesome

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at July 18, 2025 02:38 PM (jPdyB)

96 The new management should have considered some type of spoof on the late night talk show, something Space Ghost or Sammy Maudlin.

I think that's a pretty short shelf life, but it could be fund for a few seasons

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 18, 2025 02:38 PM (dfIr7)

97 Remember the sawed-off cocksucker was cautioning people against the jab until it became Biden's...literally.

Fuck him and the horse he rode in on.

Posted by: sven at July 18, 2025 02:38 PM (XFYYr)

98 Remember when the History Channel was about history?

Now it's all about Bigfoot and aliens.
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Naw, its the Adolph Hitler Channel.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 18, 2025 02:39 PM (W3T6M)

99 Suffah, Colbert. Suffah!

Posted by: garrett at July 18, 2025 02:39 PM (oSEaw)

100 Remember when the History Channel was about history?

Now it's all about Bigfoot and aliens. This is one of the reasons cable tv is failing.
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at July 18, 2025 02:37 PM (8CeIY)

It pivoted from being the Hitler Channel.

Posted by: polynikes at July 18, 2025 02:39 PM (VofaG)

101 Elvis was a DEA agent. Truth. He worked for Nixon.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 18, 2025 02:36 PM (wVcYX)

What I heard of that story is he went to Nixon, offered to serve in the role, and Nixon politely turned him down by changing the subject.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 18, 2025 02:39 PM (+nopg)

102 Wasn't he the one that would flirt with and hit on the attractive female guests?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 18, 2025 02:37 PM (uEVfM)

That, and he was by far the most conservative late night host on the boob tube.

Posted by: mrp at July 18, 2025 02:39 PM (rj6Yv)

103
~~Video killed the radio star~~

Internet killed the TV star

Posted by: Don Black. Message: I care a little at July 18, 2025 02:40 PM (AOsQT)

104 Now who will tell me what to think about Drumpf every night?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 18, 2025 02:40 PM (h+GbG)

105 Late night talk shows died with Johnny Carson.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 18, 2025 02:40 PM (50AHF)

106 Elvis was Mossad
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 18, 2025 02:37 PM (iFTx/)
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Wouldn't a purist say "Elvis IS Mossad"?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 18, 2025 02:40 PM (iZPC/)

107 Alison Brie on Community really didnt age well imo.

She was a total smokeshow on that show, but the last few things I've seen her in, just really looks old.
Posted by: Leupold at July 18, 2025 02:37 PM (4pwAx)
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Well, she is made of cheese ....

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 18, 2025 02:40 PM (iFTx/)

108 What I heard of that story is he went to Nixon, offered to serve in the role, and Nixon politely turned him down by changing the subject.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 18, 2025 02:39 PM (+nopg)

That was the public cover story.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 18, 2025 02:40 PM (wVcYX)

109 Alison Brie on Community really didnt age well imo.

She was a total smokeshow on that show, but the last few things I've seen her in, just really looks old.
Posted by: Leupold at July 18, 2025 02:37 PM (4pwAx)

Sounds like you're overdue for an eye exam.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 18, 2025 02:40 PM (tnWU2)

110 Remember when the History Channel was about history?

Now it's all about Bigfoot and aliens. This is one of the reasons cable tv is failing.
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at July 18, 2025 02:37 PM (8CeIY)

The Travel Channel is all ghost hunting shows. There's no travel even discussed there and hasn't been for many years.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at July 18, 2025 02:40 PM (k9OZB)

111 >>Late night talk shows died with Johnny Carson.

The first 4-5 years of Conan were good.

Posted by: garrett at July 18, 2025 02:40 PM (oSEaw)

112 Just fell down a rabbit hole with all the Babylon Bee videos. So far, my favorite was the progressive that went back in time to kill Hitler and ended up realizing how similar they were.

So well done.

Posted by: Orson at July 18, 2025 02:41 PM (dIske)

113 Remember when the Hallmark channel was... JK, I have no idea what the Hallmark chat was about.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 18, 2025 02:41 PM (v/hkI)

114 Elvis, Bigfoot, and JFK walk into a bar...

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 18, 2025 02:41 PM (2UnvF)

115 I for one wouldn't mind seeing Steven Colbert get a new show...

...as a permanent contestant on 'Ow! My Balls!!'.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at July 18, 2025 02:41 PM (M0V4/)

116 >>She was a total smokeshow on that show, but the last few things I've seen her in, just really looks old.

Undefeated!

Posted by: The Wall at July 18, 2025 02:42 PM (oSEaw)

117 What I heard of that story is he went to Nixon, offered to serve in the role, and Nixon politely turned him down by changing the subject.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 18, 2025 02:39 PM (+nopg)

That was the public cover story.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 18, 2025 02:40 PM (wVcYX)

Yeah, that's what I mean, I'm open to hearing the conspiracy, but so far I haven't heard anything I would consider credible.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 18, 2025 02:42 PM (xO+Ej)

118 Crap. It is 12:41 pm and I haven't started day drinking.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 18, 2025 02:42 PM (NXz8h)

119 AI versions of zombie Joe Pyne and zombie Wally George.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 18, 2025 02:42 PM (l13zv)

120 I went to college with Colbert for a year, and there was nobody from his class, the class in front of him, and the class after him (me) who even remembers him.

And that was pretty tough in a college of 900 students set in the middle of nowhere that all the students lived in dorms or fraternity houses and ate at the same dining hall.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at July 18, 2025 02:42 PM (k1E2D)

121 The first 4-5 years of Conan were good.
Posted by: garrett at July 18, 2025 02:40 PM (oSEaw)

He gave us Triumph the insult comic dog. For that I will be forever grateful.

Posted by: polynikes at July 18, 2025 02:42 PM (VofaG)

122 They are just getting ahead of when RFK bans pharma commercials and all networks have to shut down.

Posted by: Inogame at July 18, 2025 02:42 PM (53oGX)

123 Cool people hanging out and chain smoking.

Posted by: mrp at July 18, 2025 02:36 PM (rj6Yv)

Like a 70s Joe Rogan podcast.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 18, 2025 02:42 PM (6ydKt)

124 >>>Can we say that Stephen Colbert's radioactive levels of unfunniness killed the entire late show format?

To be fair to Colbert (Why?), it's also the result of the broader press for 24/7 anti-male, anti-white, woke scolding. That was never going to be funny, except to anti-male, anti-white, woke scolds, and that is not exactly a burgeoning market.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 18, 2025 02:42 PM (i24o9)

125 I find it very hard to believe Colbert is going to stick around for the whole time.

Nobody is watching and no one wants him there. What's really the point?

Posted by: eleven at July 18, 2025 02:42 PM (fV+MH)

126 96 The new management should have considered some type of spoof on the late night talk show, something Space Ghost or Sammy Maudlin.

I think that's a pretty short shelf life, but it could be fund for a few seasons

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That's how Colbert got the show in the first place, right? His act was a parody of Bill O'Reilly. As you say, those kind of things wear out pretty fast.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at July 18, 2025 02:42 PM (p4vyY)

127 111 >>Late night talk shows died with Johnny Carson.

The first 4-5 years of Conan were good.
Posted by: garrett
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Leno kept the ratings sufficient to make money for a long time, when they started to go south, guy cut his own salary to make sure his worker bees on the show got paid.

Imagine Kimmel or Colbert doing something that decent.

Posted by: whig at July 18, 2025 02:42 PM (ctrM5)

128 High price tags for making the shows? What the hell for? When Carson was on people were just walking over from the studio lots to be on many times. A few writers that can move on if they get expensive. A band (which you wouldn't need) and a small venue.

Letterman even made his name by being more budget than Carson!

They could make dozens of shows and stream them for pennies.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 18, 2025 02:42 PM (8avO+)

129 Elvis was part of the fake moon landing production crew. That’s why the CIA has to take him out. He knew too much.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 18, 2025 02:43 PM (h+GbG)

130 >>He gave us Triumph the insult comic dog. For that I will be forever grateful.

Segue Sam, too.

Posted by: garrett at July 18, 2025 02:43 PM (oSEaw)

131 Posted by: polynikes at July 18, 2025 02:37 PM (VofaG)

Larry Bud Mellman!!!!!

Posted by: Orson at July 18, 2025 02:43 PM (dIske)

132 O/T. Sorry.

Just read Jay Guevara's obit on the right. What an intelligent and gifted guy he was, and may his family be comforted and he RIP.

Wow. Oxford! Very impressive man.

Ladies...if you have not seen the Amazon movie nor read the book, "Surprised by Oxford" by Carolyn Weber, I highly recommend. The book is far better than the movie.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 18, 2025 02:43 PM (6PCLE)

133 Crap. It is 12:41 pm and I haven't started day drinking.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 18, 2025 02:42 PM (NXz8h)

Be better.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 18, 2025 02:43 PM (i24o9)

134 Breitbart's heart didn't kill itself.

Posted by: BurtTC

Jogging did it for me.
Posted by: Zombie Breitbart

Me too!
Posted by: Zombie Jim Fixx

Posted by: rickb223 at July 18, 2025 02:43 PM (k3Vs9)

135 I took my daughter to The Colbert Report back when it was on Comedy Central. He was very nice to her, and they wound up singing a duet together during a break.

At the time he wasn't displaying his despicable political side quite so stridently.

In a few short years that kindly showbiz man was gone

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 18, 2025 02:44 PM (wBaIH)

136 "Internet killed the TV star
Posted by: Don Black."

And the movie star.

Well...it supplied all the rope anyway.

Posted by: eleven at July 18, 2025 02:44 PM (fV+MH)

137 I really hope Kimmel is next. A smarmy, unfunny condescending little shit. Fallon is a local guy so I have to root for him , but he never struck me as very funny either

I think all those late night shows are going away by next year. They don't earn, get terrible ratings and don't even get tik tok clips, nothing goes viral. They have no social impact. Nobody talks about anything on them unless its to shower them with contempt

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 18, 2025 02:44 PM (dfIr7)

138 I never saw Tom Snyder's original show, outside of clips.

But I did like the one he did in the 80s, which I watched as often as I could.

He always tried to get a good conversational interview out of his guests, and he had time because of the format.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 18, 2025 02:44 PM (6ydKt)

139 PBS CEO and President Paula Kerger said Thursday that the move to cut public broadcasting "goes against the will of the American people, the vast majority of whom trust PBS and believe we provide excellent value to their communities."

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Then crank up the Jerry Lewis Telethon Machine and start collecting donations from those people who want your garbage.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 18, 2025 02:44 PM (qBdHI)

140 I'm actually reconsidering defunding NPR. Trump should have increased its funding and named Alex Jones as the new CEO.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 18, 2025 02:45 PM (PiwSw)

141 and yet he can write funny even if he can't deliver it.

Some people just shouldn't be seen.
Posted by: toby928
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I've never found any of his work to be funny.

Posted by: whig at July 18, 2025 02:45 PM (ctrM5)

142 The first 4-5 years of Conan were good.
Posted by: garrett

I never got passed the idea he was literally Howdy Doody.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 18, 2025 02:45 PM (NXz8h)

143 Just fell down a rabbit hole with all the Babylon Bee videos. So far, my favorite was the progressive that went back in time to kill Hitler and ended up realizing how similar they were.

So well done.
Posted by: Orson at July 18, 2025 02:41 PM (dIske)

Nazis were left wing Socialists. Its in the name for heaven's sake. Their 'odd feature' was being anti Jewish...but all left wing groups were anti Jew and still are.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 18, 2025 02:45 PM (8avO+)

144 And that was pretty tough in a college of 900 students set in the middle of nowhere that all the students lived in dorms or fraternity houses and ate at the same dining hall.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at July 18, 2025 02:42 PM (k1E2D)

Maybe he went to the same college (Harvard) as Barky Obungo? No one remembers him, either.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 18, 2025 02:45 PM (6PCLE)

145 >>PBS CEO and President Paula Kerger said Thursday that the move to cut public broadcasting "goes against the will of the American people, the vast majority of whom trust PBS and believe we provide excellent value to their communities."

I'm an American People and I want the entire Org burned to the ground...so.

Posted by: garrett at July 18, 2025 02:45 PM (oSEaw)

146 The late night thing can still be done well. Craig Ferguson killed at it for years.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 18, 2025 02:46 PM (TdYBy)

147 That's how Colbert got the show in the first place, right? His act was a parody of Bill O'Reilly

Yeah and it worked in small bits, little clips. He couldn't keep it going for the talk show and lost all that appealed to any viewers.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 18, 2025 02:46 PM (dfIr7)

148 Dan Ackroyd doing Tom Snyder was a hoot.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 18, 2025 02:46 PM (egMwa)

149 Mid 90s was peak late night. Letterman on CBS (before he went left wing loon), Daily Show (pre Jon Stewart) and Conan.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 18, 2025 02:46 PM (h+GbG)

150 It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.

Posted by: Kramer at July 18, 2025 02:46 PM (GT546)

151 I'm actually reconsidering defunding NPR. Trump should have increased its funding and named Alex Jones as the new CEO.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 18, 2025 02:45 PM (PiwSw)

That would have been an alternate spin...just force out the staff and play Trump news and programming 24-7. They'd break their arm rushing to cut funding.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 18, 2025 02:46 PM (8avO+)

152 Conan is only funny when you want him to be funny.

Posted by: eleven at July 18, 2025 02:47 PM (fV+MH)

153 Then crank up the Jerry Lewis Telethon Machine and start collecting donations from those people who want your garbage.
Posted by: Lady in Black
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Too bad for NPR/PBS that Jerry Lewis is dead. He was far more likable than any of their creatures on their networks--Garrison Keilor included. And Jerry was not that likable (Dean Martin got the likable part instead of Jerry when they split).

Posted by: whig at July 18, 2025 02:47 PM (ctrM5)

154 138 I never saw Tom Snyder's original show, outside of clips.

But I did like the one he did in the 80s, which I watched as often as I could.

He always tried to get a good conversational interview out of his guests, and he had time because of the format.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 18, 2025 02:44 PM (6ydKt)
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I'm old enough to remember Tom Snyder so well, I can do a decent impression.

"Ok, fair enough, what the heck."

Posted by: Orson at July 18, 2025 02:47 PM (dIske)

155 Mid 90s was peak late night. Letterman on CBS (before he went left wing loon), Daily Show (pre Jon Stewart) and Conan.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 18, 2025 02:46 PM (h+GbG)

Carson by himself was far bigger in his time. Far more influential

Posted by: Oldcat at July 18, 2025 02:47 PM (8avO+)

156 Jimmy Kimmel was great on Win Ben Stein's Money

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 18, 2025 02:47 PM (RIvkX)

157 Andrew Breitbart was right about the five years and gone, but five years later was 2016, and new orders were being issued requiring all hands on deck.

Posted by: mrp at July 18, 2025 02:47 PM (rj6Yv)

158 I think I hate Kimmell more than Colbert.

My understanding is Kimell is tight with Iger and Disney is still being woke, so his job is probably safe for now.

Posted by: Leupold at July 18, 2025 02:47 PM (4pwAx)

159 A podcast? Colbert may as well come in here to troll us. More people will read him.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 18, 2025 02:47 PM (gKWVE)

160 really hope Kimmel is next. A smarmy, unfunny condescending little shit. Fallon is a local guy so I have to root for him , but he never struck me as very funny either

I think all those late night shows are going away by next year. They don't earn, get terrible ratings and don't even get tik tok clips, nothing goes viral. They have no social impact. Nobody talks about anything on them unless its to shower them with contempt
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 18, 2025 02:44 PM (dfIr7)
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See my comment above. And I despise that loathsome toady Kimmel with the heat of the nuclear-powered woodchipper I would feed him into feet first ... slowly.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 18, 2025 02:47 PM (iFTx/)

161 I really wouldn't know what these shows are like now.

Other than the occasional clip floating around I haven't watched a late night show since Leno & Letterman.

Even then it was nothing like ten years earlier watching Carson and then Letterman.
At least they were entertaining then and celebrity still meant something.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 18, 2025 02:47 PM (6ydKt)

162 I don't think this is a coincidence that all these "comedy" shows are being cancelled at a time when USAID and other slushfunds are being shitcanned.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 18, 2025 02:36 PM (iFTx/)

You mean we might not have 15 shows about the FBI?

Posted by: Inogame at July 18, 2025 02:48 PM (53oGX)

163 When Cruz kicked Kimmel's ass in their one on one basketball game he was literally a whiny sore loser. He wasn't doing a bit.

Posted by: polynikes at July 18, 2025 02:48 PM (VofaG)

164 I never saw Tom Snyder's original show, outside of clips.

But I did like the one he did in the 80s, which I watched as often as I could.

He always tried to get a good conversational interview out of his guests, and he had time because of the format.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 18, 2025 02:44 PM (6ydKt)

I think it was Letterman, but it might have been someone else, always ragged on Snyder, like Snyder was the butt of a joke.

At the time, being young and dumb, I just assumed it was true, that Snyder was some idiot who had no business being on teevee.

I've since seen clips, but never a whole show, and he seemed like a perfectly sensible, and occasionally witty interviewer.

If it was Letterman who was insulting him, I would now just assume it was jealousy, because Letterman was almost always a shitty interviewer, unless he was pals with the guest.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 18, 2025 02:48 PM (SyQqu)

165 >Remember when the Hallmark channel was... JK, I have no idea what the Hallmark chat was about.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo
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It was about a single female, upwardly mobile professional, who has to go back to her hometown after all these years to save the old mill or adopt some puppies. She reconnects with the high school boyfriend who, for whatever reason, broke up with her. Turns out, in the intervening years he has created a huge social network and is now a billionaire. Will they find love again? Or will something in the last fifteen minutes seem to derail their romance right before the last commercial break?

Posted by: Don Black. Message: I care a little at July 18, 2025 02:48 PM (AOsQT)

166 146 The late night thing can still be done well. Craig Ferguson killed at it for years.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
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Craig Ferguson clips are still floating around on YT.

Doubt you will see much of Colbert, Kimmel, etc. bits floating around after those shows bite the dust.

Posted by: whig at July 18, 2025 02:48 PM (ctrM5)

167 Conan is only funny when you want him to be funny.
Posted by: eleven at July 18, 2025 02:47 PM (fV+MH)
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Best graduation day speech ever.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 18, 2025 02:48 PM (KNVTh)

168 He always tried to get a good conversational interview out of his guests, and he had time because of the format.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 18, 2025 02:44 PM (6ydKt)
__________________________________

I'm old enough to remember Tom Snyder so well, I can do a decent impression.

"Ok, fair enough, what the heck."
Posted by: Orson at July 18, 2025 02:47 PM (dIske)

He literally was the Joe Rogan of his time. Smoking without hiding it, long form, lots of oddball guests.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 18, 2025 02:48 PM (8avO+)

169 91 Alison Brie on Community really didnt age well imo.

She was a total smokeshow on that show, but the last few things I've seen her in, just really looks old.
Posted by: Leupold at July 18, 2025 02:37 PM (4pwAx)

She was also in GLOW on Netflix, a guilty pleasure of mine because she's in spandex for quite a bit of the show, as are the other actresses.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at July 18, 2025 02:48 PM (k1E2D)

170 155 Mid 90s was peak late night. Letterman on CBS (before he went left wing loon), Daily Show (pre Jon Stewart) and Conan.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 18, 2025 02:46 PM (h+GbG)

Carson by himself was far bigger in his time. Far more influential
Posted by: Oldcat at July 18, 2025 02:47 PM (8avO+)

I meant peak as in quality. I never really got Carson, I was probably too young to predicate it I guess.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 18, 2025 02:49 PM (h+GbG)

171 >>I think I hate Kimmell more than Colbert.

That sobbing little cuck is friends with Huey Lewis...I see him up here just about every summer.

Been waiting for the day I see him on the river with nobody else in sight.

Posted by: garrett at July 18, 2025 02:49 PM (oSEaw)

172 It was about a single female, upwardly mobile professional, who has to go back to her hometown after all these years to save the old mill or adopt some puppies. She reconnects with the high school boyfriend who, for whatever reason, broke up with her. Turns out, in the intervening years he has created a huge social network and is now a billionaire. Will they find love again? Or will something in the last fifteen minutes seem to derail their romance right before the last commercial break?
Posted by: Don Black. Message: I care a little at July 18, 2025 02:48 PM (AOsQT)

You forgot that he's pretending not to be a billionaire.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 18, 2025 02:50 PM (8avO+)

173 I really wouldn't know what these shows are like now.

Other than the occasional clip floating around I haven't watched a late night show since Leno & Letterman.

Even then it was nothing like ten years earlier watching Carson and then Letterman.
At least they were entertaining then and celebrity still meant something.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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They all tried to emulate Jon Stewart, just seal clapping for political porn.

Used to be Late Night shows had to reach a broad audience and give it to both sides. Advertisers and syndicators would have revolted, etc.

Posted by: Leupold at July 18, 2025 02:50 PM (4pwAx)

174 145 >>PBS CEO and President Paula Kerger said Thursday that the move to cut public broadcasting "goes against the will of the American people, the vast majority of whom trust PBS and believe we provide excellent value to their communities."

I'm an American People and I want the entire Org burned to the ground...so.
Posted by: garrett at July 18, 2025 02:45 PM (oSEaw)

Vast Majority... you keepa usin those words... I done think they mean what you think they mean...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 18, 2025 02:50 PM (mP0Kj)

175 Jimmy Kimmel was great on Win Ben Stein's Money
Posted by: San Franpsycho

And 'The Man Show', though Adam Carolla was funnier...and still is.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at July 18, 2025 02:50 PM (M0V4/)

176
You mean we might not have 15 shows about the FBI?
Posted by: Inogame at July 18, 2025 02:48 PM (53oGX)

What about us?
- 13 shows about doctors

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 18, 2025 02:50 PM (h+GbG)

177 Tomorrow With Tom Snyder was very watchable

Posted by: Don Black. Message: I care a little at July 18, 2025 02:50 PM (AOsQT)

178 Been waiting for the day I see him on the river with nobody else in sight.
Posted by: garrett

Wait, I know this one.

Posted by: Phil Collins at July 18, 2025 02:50 PM (gKWVE)

179 Let the door hit ya on the way out. At least we'll get a laugh.

Posted by: davea at July 18, 2025 02:50 PM (PMJuY)

180 Older Brie > Older Hewitt

Both are still good looking being in their 40's.

Posted by: polynikes at July 18, 2025 02:50 PM (VofaG)

181 CBS isn't just sh*tcanning Colbert, they're sh*tcanning the whole expensive, unpopular talk show format.
_________

Ted Koppel is still alive.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 18, 2025 02:50 PM (XvL8K)

182 Andrew Breitbart was right about the five years and gone, but five years later was 2016, and new orders were being issued requiring all hands on deck.
Posted by: mrp at July 18, 2025 02:47 PM (rj6Yv)

Good point, no one in 2011 could have predicted Trump, and the networks were continuing to lose viewers the whole time Trump was running, and in office, but the money people kept them going (and losing money) because they had to.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 18, 2025 02:51 PM (C6EnM)

183 TV becomes less and less influential with each passing year.

Posted by: Thanks to Algore at July 18, 2025 02:51 PM (GT546)

184 Will they find love again? Or will something in the last fifteen minutes seem to derail their romance right before the last commercial break?
Posted by: Don Black. Message: I care a little at July 18, 2025 02:48 PM (AOsQT)

You forgot that he's pretending not to be a billionaire.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 18, 2025 02:50 PM (8avO+)

With a soundtrack by... Coldplay?

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 18, 2025 02:51 PM (mP0Kj)

185 I meant peak as in quality. I never really got Carson, I was probably too young to predicate it I guess.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

===

I grew up in the 80s and even my dad was "too young" to watch Carson.

Johnny Carson was definitely head and shoulders above his peers before and after, but he was really long in the tooth when he finally retired.

Posted by: Leupold at July 18, 2025 02:51 PM (4pwAx)

186 Incidentally: Late night "comedy" talk shows are now officially D E A D. CBS isn't just sh*tcanning Colbert, they're sh*tcanning the whole expensive, unpopular talk show format.

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Bring back the cheap, late night horror show.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 18, 2025 02:51 PM (Vh9CX)

187 >You mean we might not have 15 shows about the FBI?
Posted by: Inogame at July 18, 2025 02:48 PM (53oGX)

What about us?
- 13 shows about doctors

--- we're right here
-14 lawyer shows

Posted by: Don Black. Message: I care a little at July 18, 2025 02:51 PM (AOsQT)

188 >>PBS CEO and President Paula Kerger said Thursday that the move to cut public broadcasting "goes against the will of the American people, the vast majority of whom trust PBS and believe we provide excellent value to their communities."

Get out of your bubble, scrunt.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 18, 2025 02:51 PM (i24o9)

189 I do wonder if TV will go back to lower cost TV productions. With much, much smaller staffs. Didn't RLM count 24 producers on Star Trek Discovery? No wonder they can't turn a profit.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 18, 2025 02:52 PM (v/hkI)

190 I watch reruns of the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.

YouTube had a clip of Doc Severinsen And The Tonight Show Band Delivering an Incredible Performance of "Ode to Billie Joe"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCvvRR0mIIg

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 18, 2025 02:52 PM (Q4IgG)

191 Tulsi Gabbard's thread on X exposing the IC ringleaders of the Buh Muh Russia collusion hoax:

https://tinyurl.com/cfeakxy4

This looks pretty damning. It might have legs.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at July 18, 2025 02:52 PM (paSBy)

192 Alison Brie on Community really didnt age well imo.

She was a total smokeshow on that show, but the last few things I've seen her in, just really looks old.
Posted by: Leupold at July 18, 2025 02:37 PM (4pwAx)

She was also in GLOW on Netflix, a guilty pleasure of mine because she's in spandex for quite a bit of the show, as are the other actresses.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at July 18, 2025 02:48 PM (k1E2D)

I just looked at some 2025 photos of her. Looks like she's had some work done. Which is a real shame.

She's still hot as F, but why women like her think they have to slice and butcher their features is beyond me.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 18, 2025 02:53 PM (qNdrt)

193 Colbert canceled. NPR and PBS defunded.

Not tired of winning.

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at July 18, 2025 02:53 PM (m9Z9d)

194 Leftism ruined late night talk/comedy. It is currently unwatchable.

You would think it would be obvious to the high paid executives why their audiences are shrinking.

Posted by: Ripley at July 18, 2025 02:53 PM (GUOwU)

195 Jimmy Kimmel was great on Win Ben Stein's Money

Sitting there looking like an idiot child being ripped on by Ben Stein, yep I agree.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 18, 2025 02:53 PM (dfIr7)

196 I meant peak as in quality. I never really got Carson, I was probably too young to predicate it I guess.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 18, 2025 02:49 PM (h+GbG)

He was extremely good at getting the best out of the people there, no matter how famous. He had Suzanne Somers on a lot reading silly poetry, probably because they could get her on when something went wrong. Virtually no politics. You knew little about his life aside from his own jokes about divorce. Middle American values. The point of the host once sitting down is to make his guest look good, not himself.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 18, 2025 02:53 PM (8avO+)

197 Kimmel was instrumental in saving Obamacare. If you recall the top was going to sorta kinda kill it. There was a lot of astroturfing by the left to convince house reps and senators to reconsider. Then Kimmel had a kid who needed some surgery and he cried that without Obamacare the kid would have died or some such nonsense. And of course the media ran with it and lots of spineless GOPe types bought into it as well.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 18, 2025 02:53 PM (h+GbG)

198 I thought Elvis actually was in the ASA when he was in the army. Just like Johnny Cash and my dad.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at July 18, 2025 02:53 PM (4M/XL)

199 191 Tulsi Gabbard's thread on X exposing the IC ringleaders of the Buh Muh Russia collusion hoax:

https://tinyurl.com/cfeakxy4

This looks pretty damning. It might have legs.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at July 18, 2025 02:52 PM (paSBy)

Trump drew a naked woman on a B-Day card !

Posted by: Your sycophant press at July 18, 2025 02:54 PM (VE6XX)

200 My TV watching besides educational channels was limited to sitcoms and movies.

Still is now that I only stream.

Posted by: polynikes at July 18, 2025 02:54 PM (VofaG)

201 I'm just here for "Tulsi Gabbard" and "legs"

Posted by: gKWVE at July 18, 2025 02:54 PM (gKWVE)

202 Matt Morse on the Utoobz.

Posted by: Check it out at July 18, 2025 02:54 PM (GT546)

203 The one Coldplay song I like was one they didn't do, but wrote and produced for the Korean Singer Jin. It's called 'The Astronaut' and it's great.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 18, 2025 02:54 PM (v/hkI)

204 I’d watch Suzanne Somers reading the phone book.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 18, 2025 02:54 PM (h+GbG)

205 188 >>PBS CEO and President Paula Kerger said Thursday that the move to cut public broadcasting "goes against the will of the American people, the vast majority of whom trust PBS and believe we provide excellent value to their communities."

Get out of your bubble, scrunt.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 18, 2025 02:51 PM (i24o9)

I'd love to see a poll done... have you listened to PBS, or NPR, in the last year.

Only time I listened to NPR, was a certain section of Desert... like 30 years ago... because it was the ONLY Radio station on that night. Lasted about 2 minutes.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 18, 2025 02:54 PM (mP0Kj)

206 Internet killed the TV star

Posted by: Don Black. Message: I care a little at July 18, 2025 02:40 PM (AOsQT)

TV killed the TV star. "Reality" TV, specifically.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 18, 2025 02:54 PM (i24o9)

207 @Ace, if you missed it (brought back memories of Ricky Gervais ripping Hollywood at the Oscars some years back) -- #Based comedian Shane Gillis hosted the ESPYs recently and had a fairly funny opening monologue (ending it with a stolen Norm Macdonald joke) as the crowd was a little on the PC tepid side:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?
v=c6gU77uotMk&
pp=0gcJCfwAo7VqN5tD

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Alligator Alcatraz the Gulf of Gator Gitmo! at July 18, 2025 02:55 PM (T3zON)

208 Turns out, in the intervening years he has created a huge social network and is now a billionaire. Will they find love again? Or will something in the last fifteen minutes seem to derail their romance right before the last commercial break?
Posted by: Don Black. Message: I care a little at July 18, 2025 02:48 PM (AOsQT)

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He also drives an old, beat up truck.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 18, 2025 02:55 PM (Vh9CX)

209 75 They had two of them.
Posted by: polynikes at July 18, 2025 02:34 PM (VofaG)

They had FOUR of them.

Posted by: XTC at July 18, 2025 02:55 PM (UnA8+)

210 >>@C__Herridge
Breaking…

>>Newly declassified records from
@DNIGabbard
are additional, compelling evidence that the 2016 Russia Collusion narrative was not rooted in credible intelligence reporting, but manufactured to fit a preferred political narrative.

Read the whole thing.

https://tinyurl.com/bdfxk2x3

Posted by: JackStraw at July 18, 2025 02:55 PM (viF8m)

211 Holy God, now that I have seen that Colbert Vaccine clip, I will never get another vaccine for the rest of my life. And nI will squeeze out all the ones I've previously gotten.

Heinous!

Posted by: zombie at July 18, 2025 02:55 PM (pMi6S)

212 I meant peak as in quality. I never really got Carson, I was probably too young to predicate it I guess.

Yeah he was 60s cool in the 80s, it didn't really reach me as a young person. Letterman was goofy and irreverent and chaotic and that resonated with us. Looking back though, I wish I'd watched Carson more. The people he had on, the music, the humor was all great. It just was not for younger people.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 18, 2025 02:55 PM (dfIr7)

213 >>I'd love to see a poll done... have you listened to PBS, or NPR, in the last year.

Once Car Talk and Marianne McPartland's Piano Jazz wrapped up...I was done.

Posted by: garrett at July 18, 2025 02:55 PM (oSEaw)

214 Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 18, 2025 02:53 PM (h+GbG)

Ignoring that CHIP had existed for years to cover those kids.

Posted by: polynikes at July 18, 2025 02:56 PM (VofaG)

215 Bring back the cheap, late night horror show.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 18, 2025 02:51 PM

Elvira is undead.

Posted by: toby928 at July 18, 2025 02:56 PM (jc0TO)

216 Elvira is undead.
Posted by: toby928 at July 18, 2025 02:56 PM (jc0TO)

And huge liberal lesbian.

Posted by: polynikes at July 18, 2025 02:56 PM (VofaG)

217
He also drives an old, beat up truck.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 18, 2025 02:55 PM (Vh9CX)

And he's gay in real life.. Most of Hallmark male stars are gay

Posted by: It's me donna at July 18, 2025 02:56 PM (VE6XX)

218 The decision -- which ends years of original late-night programming at CBS that started when the network lured David Letterman from NBC in 1993...

That was the problem. There really wasn't anything original on late night since sometime before 1993.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 18, 2025 02:57 PM (lUFok)

219 riddance

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not kill at July 18, 2025 02:57 PM (gxokI)

220 125 I find it very hard to believe Colbert is going to stick around for the whole time.

Nobody is watching and no one wants him there. What's really the point?
Posted by: eleven at July 18, 2025 02:42 PM (fV+MH)

The networks have contracts with local stations to provide X number of hours of programming per day/week, and this is part of it. This is letting the local stations know that CBS will be cutting back on the number of hours that they are providing and that the locals will need to add programming in that slot. That might mean a longer local 11pm newscast or that CBS might add a late night news show (cheap AF to produce).

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at July 18, 2025 02:57 PM (k1E2D)

221 PBS CEO and President Paula Kerger said Thursday that the move to cut public broadcasting "goes against the will of the American people, the vast majority of whom trust PBS and believe we provide excellent value to their communities."
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Then you have nothing to worry about because that "excellent value" will more than replace the loss of public funds as the people of the free market will willingly pay for that "excellent value."

LOLGF

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 18, 2025 02:57 PM (uEVfM)

222 All of TV is doomed. Nobody under 30 knows how TV even works. Older people have been cutting the cord as well. Other than boomers who still watch cable news and network TV there is no market. Within 10 years TV as we once knew it will no longer exist.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 18, 2025 02:57 PM (h+GbG)

223 Turns out, in the intervening years he has created a huge social network and is now a billionaire. Will they find love again? Or will something in the last fifteen minutes seem to derail their romance right before the last commercial break?
Posted by: Don Black. Message: I care a little at July 18, 2025 02:48 PM

They broke up because he was a poor boy from the wrong side of the tracks.

Posted by: toby928 at July 18, 2025 02:57 PM (jc0TO)

224 187 >You mean we might not have 15 shows about the FBI?
Posted by: Inogame at July 18, 2025 02:48 PM (53oGX)

What about us?
- 13 shows about doctors

--- we're right here
-14 lawyer shows
Posted by: Don Black. Message: I care a little at July 18, 2025 02:51 PM (AOsQT)

But .. But.... : 5 Different shows where Sherlock Holmes has a Daughter or Niece who actually solves all the crimes.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 18, 2025 02:57 PM (mP0Kj)

225 216 Elvira is undead.
Posted by: toby928 at July 18, 2025 02:56 PM (jc0TO)

And huge liberal lesbian.
Posted by: polynikes at July 18, 2025 02:56 PM (VofaG)

She comes by the lesbian thing honestly at least. She says Tom Jones was so hung he put her in the hospital.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 18, 2025 02:58 PM (TdYBy)

226 I'd love to see a poll done... have you listened to PBS, or NPR, in the last year.

Unless its on in someone else's car or I pass by, I haven't listened to radio at all for like 15 years.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 18, 2025 02:58 PM (dfIr7)

227 Stewart can occasionally say something vaguely amusing.

Not regularly, mind you, but occasionally.

Colbert is an unfunny shitstick who only had a job in the first place because he reliably spouted communist propaganda like a trained seal.

Yeah, podcast would be my guess as well.

Maybe Xinhua is hiring.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 18, 2025 02:58 PM (qpyNK)

228 She comes by the lesbian thing honestly at least. She says Tom Jones was so hung he put her in the hospital.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

She said "my heart, my heart"

He said "don't worry, I'll go around it"

Posted by: Rick in SK at July 18, 2025 02:59 PM (FZYNt)

229 218 The decision -- which ends years of original late-night programming at CBS that started when the network lured David Letterman from NBC in 1993...

That was the problem. There really wasn't anything original on late night since sometime before 1993.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 18, 2025 02:57 PM (lUFok)

Before that it was all old Serials, and bad Sci Fi movies... which were superior IMO.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 18, 2025 02:59 PM (mP0Kj)

230 The CIA shitcanned me when I got too fat to run.

Posted by: Fat Elvis at July 18, 2025 02:59 PM (UjdFS)

231 Yeah he was 60s cool in the 80s, it didn't really reach me as a young person.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 18, 2025 02:55 PM (dfIr7)

Well put. Same with me, we’re about the same age I would gather.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 18, 2025 02:59 PM (h+GbG)

232 > but manufactured to fit a preferred political narrative.

People need to go to jail for this. Maybe even be charged with treason.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 18, 2025 02:59 PM (qpyNK)

233 >>I'd love to see a poll done... have you listened to PBS, or NPR, in the last year.

Once Car Talk and Marianne McPartland's Piano Jazz wrapped up...I was done.
Posted by: garrett at July 18, 2025 02:55 PM (oSEaw)

Virtually never all my life. Especially NPR.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 18, 2025 03:00 PM (8avO+)

234
I've since seen clips, but never a whole show, and he seemed like a perfectly sensible, and occasionally witty interviewer.

If it was Letterman who was insulting him, I would now just assume it was jealousy, because Letterman was almost always a shitty interviewer, unless he was pals with the guest.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 18, 2025 02:48 PM (SyQqu)

I think Letterman and Snyder had beef because Snyder was also being considered for the slot after Carson, and they went with Dave.

I think Snyder did a few more shows after his 70-80s "Tomorrow Coast to Coast".

He had a show on CNBC, in the early 90s when it first came out, called "Tom Snyder" back when they were doing talk-/interview shows at night like Donahue/Posner.

Then he did a NBC show, "The Late Late Show", from '95-'99 with his regular 1 or 2 guest interview format.

I liked him.
Letterman turned out to be a real prick, though.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 18, 2025 03:00 PM (6ydKt)

235 230 The CIA shitcanned me when I got too fat to run.
Posted by: Fat Elvis at July 18, 2025 02:59 PM (UjdFS)

He's alive! I KNEW IT.

Posted by: boomer suburban housefrau at July 18, 2025 03:00 PM (gKWVE)

236 There are still Greatest Gen people alive. There are more than a few Silents still alive. But after the lifestyle that they rocked for most of their lives, many Boomers are not holding on very well. Some were healthy and virtuous and should hang on for decades but a lot are tipping off the cliff earlier because of all that stupid sex drugs and rock and roll stuff capped off by "I refuse to get old" drugs and procedures.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 18, 2025 03:00 PM (dfIr7)

237 " I’d watch Suzanne Somers reading the phone book.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald"

She was the milfyest milf ever.

And smart as hell.

Posted by: eleven at July 18, 2025 03:01 PM (fV+MH)

238

Letterman was great in the 80s before he got huge. Bizarre humor, Chris Elliott, unpredictable.

He once had a show where the screen turned 360 over the hour. For no reason.

Everything wasnt so fuckin serious.

Posted by: E Buzz at July 18, 2025 03:02 PM (tVKvx)

239 This is one of those very rare news items that matters. Not in itself; it was inevitable and pretty obvious, as Breitbart noted. But it's a leading indicator of establishment erosion, much more so than a Brexit or a Trump.

People get sick of a politician much faster than a entertainer.

A deviant pisant like John Lennon lives on as a saint when a decent politician is instantly forgotten upon his death, like Calvin Coolidge, because the media can prop him up and rehabilitate him.

If boomers think millennials talk too much shit about their precious Beatles, just wait until millennials get a load of how their grandkids talk about their vapid celebrities and their evil politicians.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 18, 2025 03:02 PM (UBPHT)

240 Elvis would be 90 years old.

Posted by: polynikes at July 18, 2025 03:02 PM (VofaG)

241 Youtube pushes the hell out of clips of these unfunny clowns doing their leftwing lectures every night. They might throw some money at them

Posted by: brak at July 18, 2025 03:02 PM (jGJov)

242 I thought Jenny Kimmel was moving away if Trump got elected.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at July 18, 2025 03:02 PM (kTd/k)

243 The only people upset about this are either real lesbians or look like lesbians.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 18, 2025 03:03 PM (KbCG3)

244 I don't think I've ever watched Colbert's actual show. I remember him doing GM's "Mr. Goodwrench" spots many years ago on TV, but that's all.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 18, 2025 03:03 PM (omVj0)

245 Once Car Talk and Marianne McPartland's Piano Jazz wrapped up...I was done.
Posted by: garrett
________

Even those Car Talk guys were pinko commie bastards. They'd let the mask slip once in a while.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 18, 2025 03:03 PM (XvL8K)

246 " I’d watch Suzanne Somers reading the phone book.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald"

She was the milfyest milf ever.

And smart as hell.

Posted by: eleven at July 18, 2025 03:01 PM

Yep she cleared a couple of hundred million selling her *thigh master* scam.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 18, 2025 03:03 PM (e5NfL)

247 Where have you gone, Johnny Carson?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 18, 2025 03:03 PM (zZu0s)

248 Letterman was great in the 80s before he got huge. Bizarre humor, Chris Elliott, unpredictable.

He once had a show where the screen turned 360 over the hour. For no reason.

Everything wasnt so fuckin serious.

Posted by: E Buzz at July 18, 2025 03:02 PM (tVKvx)

its because his slot was after Carson. The older crowd had gone to sleep by then. When he moved to CBS he had to mainstream himself and the touch was gone.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 18, 2025 03:03 PM (8avO+)

249 Kimmel and Howard Stern became besties . I think it's one reason Carolla and Kimmel grew apart. Carolla began to see what a cuck Kimmel had become but still stays quiet out of a sense of loyalty.

Posted by: polynikes at July 18, 2025 03:05 PM (VofaG)

250 Once Car Talk and Marianne McPartland's Piano Jazz wrapped up...I was done.
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Same here. I really enjoyed both of those years ago.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at July 18, 2025 03:05 PM (paSBy)

251 Late night hasn't been funny since Craig Ferguson left.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at July 18, 2025 03:05 PM (kTd/k)

252 "I'd love to see a poll done... have you listened to PBS, or NPR, in the last year. "

I occasionally turn on NPR on very long drives to see what the commies are talking about. Putting up with the smug is not easy though so it never lasts long.

Posted by: Ripley at July 18, 2025 03:05 PM (GUOwU)

253 Even those Car Talk guys were pinko commie bastards. They'd let the mask slip once in a while.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
--------

My friends and I would often make jokes about their bad/faulty advice.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 18, 2025 03:06 PM (XeU6L)

254 When you "fire" people you have them leave so as not to let them cause more damage.

Posted by: Reforger at July 18, 2025 03:07 PM (lPvx2)

255 Just a reminder; Elvis was bonking Ann Margret when she was in her prime. Of all the women he screwed, she was definitely the most beautiful. With Donna Douglas a close second. Of course that’s just my opinion. YMMV.

Posted by: RetSgtRN at July 18, 2025 03:07 PM (6TlvJ)

256 248 Letterman was great in the 80s before he got huge. Bizarre humor, Chris Elliott, unpredictable.

He once had a show where the screen turned 360 over the hour. For no reason.

Everything wasnt so fuckin serious.

Posted by: E Buzz
=========
Letterman is doing some low key panel show back in Indiana (podcast mebbe?). He admitted recently that he hated the person that he became as he got bigger in broadcast tv and he did it, in part, to try to surpass the accolades that Johnny Carson received.

Posted by: whig at July 18, 2025 03:07 PM (ctrM5)

257 She was the milfyest milf ever.

And smart as hell.
Posted by: eleven at July 18, 2025 03:01 PM (fV+MH)
=======================
One of my greatest memories is checking into a Vegas hotel after being on a ten day river trip through the Grand Canyon, dirty and smelly, to find she was hosting a topless dance show at the hotel.

Best show I ever saw. It lives on in my dreams.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 18, 2025 03:07 PM (2ZnX0)

258 Carson was all sexual innuendo and double entendres.

I found him tiresome as fuck.

Posted by: eleven at July 18, 2025 03:08 PM (fV+MH)

259 If boomers think millennials talk too much shit about their precious Beatles, just wait until millennials get a load of how their grandkids talk about their vapid celebrities and their evil politicians.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 18, 2025 03:02 PM (UBPHT)

I became aware of popular music as the Beatles were about to break up. Even I never got the mystique. Some good songs, but pretty samey. Was never much of an Elvis fan either, but he had more game and variety than the Beatles. And there were lots of other bands to like with great songs, if only a few per band.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 18, 2025 03:08 PM (8avO+)

260 I remember a Letterman show from his early days in cbs when he went to Boston and too 10 List of things that sound cool with a Boston accent, said by Boston area fire fighters. Paahk the caaaahh at the baaah after daaahhk with maaaaky maaahk.

One of the funniest things I remember from late night.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 18, 2025 03:08 PM (h+GbG)

261 Will a judge not block the firing of Stephen Colbert?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at July 18, 2025 03:08 PM (kTd/k)

262 255 Just a reminder; Elvis was bonking Ann Margret when she was in her prime. Of all the women he screwed, she was definitely the most beautiful. With Donna Douglas a close second. Of course that’s just my opinion. YMMV.
Posted by: RetSgtRN

Ann-Margret is 84 years old and I would still crawl over broken glass to have a go

Posted by: Rick in SK at July 18, 2025 03:09 PM (FZYNt)

263 "He once had a show where the screen turned 360 over the hour. For no reason."

Oh, there was a reason.

Posted by: cocaine at July 18, 2025 03:09 PM (vFG9F)

264 When I was in HS, I often stayed up through Carson's monologue and skit. Johnny was a model of cool in those days and we would try to mimic his mannerisms.

Posted by: Oglebay at July 18, 2025 03:09 PM (2ap+5)

265 The best NPR segment ever. (Features Alec Baldwin, but before he killed that woman)

https://youtu.be/bPpcfH_HHH8

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 18, 2025 03:09 PM (Dv3i1)

266 If boomers think millennials talk too much shit about their precious Beatles, just wait until millennials get a load of how their grandkids talk about their vapid celebrities and their evil politicians.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Now you've done it. Might as well mention 9mm v. 45 ACP, crossbow versus long bow, or other such hot button topics.

Posted by: whig at July 18, 2025 03:09 PM (ctrM5)

267 Incidentally: Late night "comedy" talk shows are now officially D E A D. CBS isn't just sh*tcanning Colbert, they're sh*tcanning the whole expensive, unpopular talk show format.

----------------
Bring back the cheap, late night horror show.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 18, 2025 0

***
CBS could take a tip from themselves ca. 1971: Run the old BBC Avengers episodes with Patrick Macnee, Honor Blackman, and Diana Rigg. Plus they could add Danger Man/Secret Agent with Patrick McGoohan.

Ratings couldn't be worse and would probably improve.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 18, 2025 03:09 PM (omVj0)

268 did you guys see Shane on the espy's?

is that worth a post?

he's getting a lot of heat for the Caitlin Clark joke

he was funny

he could host a show maybe, other than him or get Craig out of retirement, who could?

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 18, 2025 03:09 PM (Pv3Rg)

269 >>I became aware of popular music as the Beatles were about to break up

That was well into the downward portion of their parabola...after Revolver it was all downhill.

Posted by: garrett at July 18, 2025 03:09 PM (oSEaw)

270 Kimmel and Howard Stern became besties . I think it's one reason Carolla and Kimmel grew apart. Carolla began to see what a cuck Kimmel had become but still stays quiet out of a sense of loyalty.
Posted by: polynikes at July 18, 2025 03:05 PM (VofaG)

I get it, though. None of my Leftist friends or family ever did anything for me, besides be a pain in my ass. But if one if them had been with me every step of the way and helped me through my career, etc., I'd remember that instead of her dumbfuck politics.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 18, 2025 03:09 PM (UBPHT)

271 Joe Franklin was the pinnacle of late-night talk. Guests like Pat Cooper, Morty Gunty, Corbett Monica, how can you go wrong?

Posted by: Martian Paints at July 18, 2025 03:10 PM (G5+As)

272 248 its because his slot was after Carson. The older crowd had gone to sleep by then. When he moved to CBS he had to mainstream himself and the touch was gone.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 18, 2025 03:03 PM (8avO+)

90s Dave gave us "Dick Assman".

Take that for what you will.

Posted by: XTC at July 18, 2025 03:10 PM (UnA8+)

273 My biggest memory of Letterman was when he had Madonna on, and she was pissed off at him for some comment he'd made about her on a previous show.

Dave was trying to be as nice and gracious as he could, but Madonna insisted on talking about peeing in the shower.

The best part was watching how uncomfortable it was making Dave as he desperately tried to change the subject, but Madonna was having none of it and and enjoyed every minute of it as she started talking about the health benefits of peeing in the shower.

I'm sure there's a clip somewhere, it's pretty famous.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 18, 2025 03:10 PM (6ydKt)

274 The best late night shows in order were:
Rhonda Shear's Up All Night on USA
Headbanger's Ball
RedEye

Posted by: banana Dream at July 18, 2025 03:10 PM (cduTK)

275
I became aware of popular music as the Beatles were about to break up. Even I never got the mystique. Some good songs, but pretty samey. Was never much of an Elvis fan either, but he had more game and variety than the Beatles. And there were lots of other bands to like with great songs, if only a few per band.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 18, 2025 03:08 PM

Elvis had charisma and was charming.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 18, 2025 03:11 PM (TmEds)

276 Yep she cleared a couple of hundred million selling her *thigh master* scam.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 18, 2025 03:03 PM (e5NfL)

I remember my trainer when I was in the gym (a gal) bitching about the equivalent machine there to a thighmaster was the only one women wanted to use, and the muscle is about the size of a pencil.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 18, 2025 03:11 PM (8avO+)

277 If PBS were to pickup Roadworthy Rescues I'd watch that.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 18, 2025 03:11 PM (W3T6M)

278 Tulsi is declassifying a lot of Russia stuff right now and it's pretty damn big.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 18, 2025 03:11 PM (viF8m)

279 Elvis had charisma and was charming.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 18, 2025 03:11 PM (TmEds)

Not a big movie watcher, either, but his movies were not bad.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 18, 2025 03:11 PM (8avO+)

280 274 The best late night shows in order were:
Rhonda Shear's Up All Night on USA
Headbanger's Ball
RedEye

Posted by: banana Dream at July 18, 2025 03:10 PM (cduTK)

Mystery Science Theater 3000
Joe-Bob's Drive-In

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 18, 2025 03:12 PM (6ydKt)

281 I think Revolver was the first actual LP I ever bought.

Posted by: toby928 at July 18, 2025 03:12 PM (jc0TO)

282 I remember my trainer when I was in the gym (a gal) bitching about the equivalent machine there to a thighmaster was the only one women wanted to use, and the muscle is about the size of a pencil.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 18, 2025 03:11 PM (8avO+)

I'll show you a muscle the size of a...hey, wait a minute!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 18, 2025 03:12 PM (KbCG3)

283 When I was in high school I would watch late night movies. I remember watching The Prime of Miss Brodie at that time.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at July 18, 2025 03:12 PM (kTd/k)

284 Adam is still friends with Jimmie Kimmel. He was wearing Jimmie Kimmel’s comedy club hat on his podcast recently. Maybe they’re not BFF anymore but they have t broken off their relationship.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 18, 2025 03:13 PM (h+GbG)

285 278 Tulsi is declassifying a lot of Russia stuff right now and it's pretty damn big.
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Yeah, this is going to be a BIG story.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at July 18, 2025 03:13 PM (paSBy)

286 When Letterman was on Carson, he usually came on last. I would try to stay up for him. The Letterman observation I can still remember is: "Do you see these ads - lose weight without dieting and without exercise? Pretty much leaves disease, doesn't it?"

Posted by: Oglebay at July 18, 2025 03:13 PM (2ap+5)

287 278 Tulsi is declassifying a lot of Russia stuff right now and it's pretty damn big.
___

Old news, too confusing, readers not interested, let's all move on and discuss really important information our viewers are most interested in and effects their lives in a most serious and compelling way. Which of course is Trump's letter to Epstein.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 18, 2025 03:13 PM (Dv3i1)

288 Joe Franklin was the pinnacle of late-night talk. Guests like Pat Cooper, Morty Gunty, Corbett Monica, how can you go wrong?
Posted by: Martian Paints at July 18, 2025

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Don't recall Franklin (though I do remember Gunty and Monica). To me the pinnacle was Merv Griffin's original Westinghouse-sponsored talk show, syndicated in the mid-'60s. A small theatre, small audience, and you felt like it was *yours,* that you had stumbled on this gem of a TV show. People like Joanne Worley started off there, and Rodney Dangerfield, and Richard Pryor (working clean). Fun stuff.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 18, 2025 03:14 PM (omVj0)

289 I remember the time Drew Barrymore, in her prime, flashed her boobies at Letterman.

He didn't deserve that.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 18, 2025 03:14 PM (qpyNK)

290 Alison Brie has never been a smoke show, she has big t*ts for a skinny girl, that's it.

Big t*ts does not a smoke show make, it helps, but it's not determinate.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 18, 2025 03:14 PM (XV/Pl)

291 Apparently Tulsi is now actually using the T word, “treason”, about Obama. He’s gonna need more gay friends.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 18, 2025 03:14 PM (YOSIG)

292 269 >>I became aware of popular music as the Beatles were about to break up

That was well into the downward portion of their parabola...after Revolver it was all downhill.
Posted by: garrett
===========
The Beatles were really the first rock band to not be disposable or creatures of their producers. They showed that modern recording technology could be used for rock and that the sound did not have to be crappy and cheap (Berry Gordy and Phil Spector did the same but as producers, not artists). Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys caught that same wave on the West Coast of California.

Posted by: whig at July 18, 2025 03:14 PM (ctrM5)

293 279 Elvis had charisma and was charming.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 18, 2025 03:11 PM (TmEds)

Not a big movie watcher, either, but his movies were not bad.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 18, 2025 03:11 PM

I don't think I've ever watched an Elvis movie but one of my aunts loved Elvis and must've seen him over 100 times. She had every Album. If my parents went out of town my aunt watched us and it was all Elvis music all the time. My older hippie siblings made fun of him but I think he was cool.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 18, 2025 03:14 PM (TmEds)

294 >>> My biggest memory of Letterman was when he had Madonna on, and she was pissed off at him for some comment he'd made about her on a previous show.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 18, 2025 03:10 PM (6ydKt)

I remember Drew whipping out her Extra Tittestrials live. A real Close encounter. I bet he shtupped her frequently.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 18, 2025 03:14 PM (cduTK)

295 I always confuse Kimmel with that other guy.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at July 18, 2025 03:14 PM (kTd/k)

296 281 I think Revolver was the first actual LP I ever bought.
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That and Rubber Soul were the turning point.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 18, 2025 03:15 PM (W3T6M)

297 My 1st LP purchase was the newly released 'Number of the Beast' by Iron Maiden.

Posted by: garrett at July 18, 2025 03:15 PM (oSEaw)

298 These same bastard demoncrats did not give a crap about the young girls and Epstein when Biden was POTUS.

Now all of a sudden they care.... Get a life !!!!!!!

Posted by: Wally at July 18, 2025 03:15 PM (BltCC)

299 Adam is still friends with Jimmie Kimmel.

He was on, I think, Michael Malice recently and said they just don’t talk about political things.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 18, 2025 03:15 PM (YOSIG)

300 Alison Brie was haaawwwt in Mad Men. She wasn’t in a lot of episodes though.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 18, 2025 03:15 PM (h+GbG)

301 Elvis had charisma and was charming.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 18, 2025 03:11 PM (TmEds)

Not a big movie watcher, either, but his movies were not bad.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 18, 2025

***
His dramatic roles such as King Creole showed he had the basics of acting talent. If he'd been allowed to follow that course instead of being forced into those endless musical movies, we might be speaking of him today in the same tones we use for Paul Newman. And he *might* not have died so young.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 18, 2025 03:16 PM (omVj0)

302 >I became aware of popular music as the Beatles were about to break up

That was well into the downward portion of their parabola...after Revolver it was all downhill.
Posted by: garrett at July 18, 2025 03:09 PM (oSEaw)

True, but in college my roommate was a big Beatles guy and played a lot of their stuff. Some good songs but lots of bands did that. Many other bands have songs that resonate with me better than any Beatles song. I think my favorite Beatles song might be Norwegian Wood.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 18, 2025 03:16 PM (8avO+)

303 Morgan J. Freeman
@mjfree

Colbert spoke truth to power.

He is an American Hero.

RESPECT

Posted by: redridinghood at July 18, 2025 03:16 PM (NpAcC)

304 I've always been puzzled that Ferguson never had Sofia Vergara as a guest. I think the flirting would have been epic.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at July 18, 2025 03:17 PM (kTd/k)

305 My Twitter made it one Ace of Spades or 8:26 in the youtube video LOL

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at July 18, 2025 03:17 PM (FCrpy)

306 Old news, too confusing, readers not interested, let's all move on and discuss really important information our viewers are most interested in and effects their lives in a most serious and compelling way. Which of course is Trump's letter to Epstein.

When I want to avoid a topic, I tend to just not bring it up. I've been odd like that my entire life.

Posted by: Man Without A Party at July 18, 2025 03:17 PM (du1c2)

307 Sigh I used to think Morgan Freeman had some brains

Posted by: steevy at July 18, 2025 03:17 PM (YwEeS)

308 You know how it’s really annoying listening to TayTay fans talk about TayTay? quadruple the annoyance factor and that’s your Beatles fan.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 18, 2025 03:18 PM (h+GbG)

309 FART Tubing.... Let's do it !!!!!

Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at July 18, 2025 03:18 PM (LRccx)

310 Morgan J. Freeman

Who?

Posted by: toby928 at July 18, 2025 03:18 PM (jc0TO)

311 I don't think I've ever watched an Elvis movie but one of my aunts loved Elvis and must've seen him over 100 times. She had every Album. If my parents went out of town my aunt watched us and it was all Elvis music all the time. My older hippie siblings made fun of him but I think he was cool.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 18, 2025 03:14 PM (TmEds)

In HS a gal I sat next to in some classes always went to Elvis concerts with the Fam and had done so just a few months before he died. She was sad.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 18, 2025 03:18 PM (8avO+)

312
Trump's letter to Epstein.

The EPSY award?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 18, 2025 03:18 PM (63Dwl)

313 I think a lot of the Beatles hate is just an expression of contempt for Boomers. Setting that aside, it's easy to discount the merits or significance of older bands when you grow up in the world they helped create. Same thing happens with literature. I have a hard time enjoying Moorcock's Elric stories. They don't seem much like me. But I grew up reading stuff that had already been shaped by it. So that's unsurprising.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 18, 2025 03:18 PM (TdYBy)

314 When I was in high school, I would do my homework at 11:30 at night while watching old movies. Ed McMahon would come out of the vault holding a movie reel. It was great.

I know the plots of numerous old movie (for which I don't know their names)

Posted by: SMOD at July 18, 2025 03:18 PM (RHGPo)

315 Morgan J. Freeman
@mjfree

CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery.

America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.

https://tinyurl.com/39zaumz3

Watch and share his message.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 18, 2025 03:18 PM (NpAcC)

316 Elvis had charisma and was charming.
Posted by: CaliGirl
======
Elvis was at the mercy of his producers, manager, and song writers. The Hollywood exploitation films was not a kind era to him. And the scene was changing as it always does in pop music.

1968 Elvis From Memphis was really about his last great album but the few clips from live shows demonstrated much more talent and liveliness than his recorded music from that point onwards.

That is on his record production team and manager.

Posted by: whig at July 18, 2025 03:18 PM (ctrM5)

317 https://youtu.be/BMQWR2v9opQ

That's the Madonna-Letterman interview.

She starts talking about the shower around 14:33 in.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 18, 2025 03:18 PM (6ydKt)

318 >>> @mjfree

Colbert spoke truth to power.

He is an American Hero.

RESPECT
Posted by: redridinghood at July 18, 2025 03:16 PM (NpAcC)

That is just some antifa propaganda account that's been on twitter, now bluesky. No relation to the actor.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 18, 2025 03:19 PM (cduTK)

319 305 My Twitter made it one Ace of Spades or 8:26 in the youtube video LOL
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at July 18, 2025 03:17 PM (FCrpy)

Kool Moe Dee!

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 18, 2025 03:19 PM (TmEds)

320 283 When I was in high school I would watch late night movies. I remember watching The Prime of Miss Brodie at that time.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at July 18, 2025 03:12 PM (kTd/k)

For me it was Fritz the Nite Owl on the CBS affiliate in Columbus. He hosted the 11:30pm movie show on weeknights. He wore huge owl glasses and would make droll comments about the films at every commercial break. I miss him.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at July 18, 2025 03:19 PM (0bjKf)

321 Melanie Phillips: Hypocrisy and double standards over the massacre of the Druze
Yet this slaughter elicited no condemnation from those who, day in and day out, signal their own supposed virtue by falsely accusing Israel of war crimes. Faced with the evidence of a horrific attempt to exterminate the Druze, demonstrators who have been screaming about Israel’s “genocide” for the past 21 months were conspicuously absent from the streets and campuses.

The likes of Amnesty and Human Rights Watch were silent. Al-Julani’s troops reportedly slaughtered the entire staff at Suweida’s hospital along with their patients. Yet from those who falsely accuse Israel of targeting hospitals in Gaza in order to kill patients and staff—and who wickedly ignore the fact that Hamas has turned them into terrorist hubs and thus made them into legitimate military targets—there was only silence.
===

No juze, no nuze.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 18, 2025 03:19 PM (RIvkX)

322 And how many times did Bill Clinton visit "Fantasy Island" ?

Posted by: Wally at July 18, 2025 03:19 PM (BltCC)

323 Morgan J. Freeman
@mjfree

Colbert spoke truth to power.

He is an American Hero.

RESPECT
Posted by: redridinghood at July 18, 2025 03:16 PM (NpAcC)

He's a flack on a government funded oligopoly. Truth to power my ass.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 18, 2025 03:19 PM (8avO+)

324 Watch and share his message.
Posted by: redridinghood
=======
I always look towards actors as my moral compass. NOT.

Posted by: whig at July 18, 2025 03:19 PM (ctrM5)

325 The cancellation is announced only 18 days after Pride Month.

For shame CBS. For fucking shame.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 18, 2025 03:20 PM (h+GbG)

326
1968 Elvis From Memphis was really about his last great album but the few clips from live shows demonstrated much more talent and liveliness than his recorded music from that point onwards.

That is on his record production team and manager.
Posted by: whig at July 18, 2025 03:18 PM (ctrM5)

I saw concert or dinner show footage of his recently and every lady in the house is waiting in line to get a kiss from Elvis, it's amazing and there was only one Elvis.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 18, 2025 03:20 PM (TmEds)

327 Tom Snyder would occasionally have "controversial" guests on like Harlan Ellison. I don't recall seeing any of the episodes -- but I can imagine what a free-wheeler like Ellison would do on late night, even in the '70s, with few restrictions on the topics they could bring up.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 18, 2025 03:21 PM (omVj0)

328 Respectfully request Ciampino be added to Absent Friends sidebar.

Posted by: Can't Make gp's Shimmy Shake On Tea at July 18, 2025 03:21 PM (J4/Z5)

329 Shut up, Morgan.

Posted by: Penguin Hands at July 18, 2025 03:21 PM (vFG9F)

330

courage

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 18, 2025 03:21 PM (63Dwl)

331 Guess they will run all night commercials now. What fun.

I don't watch the crap they show now, but all night commercials would be just as bad.

Posted by: Case at July 18, 2025 03:21 PM (ilX37)

332 "You know how it’s really annoying listening to TayTay fans talk about TayTay? quadruple the annoyance factor and that’s your Beatles fan.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald"

'John Lennon was a music genius!!' always makes cringe, like fingernails on a blackboard.

Posted by: Ripley at July 18, 2025 03:21 PM (GUOwU)

333 322 And how many times did Bill Clinton visit "Fantasy Island" ?
_____

*shudders*

Posted by: Tattoo at July 18, 2025 03:21 PM (Dv3i1)

334 nood

Posted by: Can't Make gp's Shimmy Shake On Tea at July 18, 2025 03:21 PM (J4/Z5)

335 Will Glen Eichler go back to being funny again…?

Posted by: SouthcentralPA at July 18, 2025 03:22 PM (etpyu)

336 They are really pushing the Car Shield scam hard.

Everyday there is a new celebrity Millionaire stating how they use Car Shield and saved thousands of dollars.

Posted by: Wally at July 18, 2025 03:22 PM (BltCC)

337
Tom Snyder would occasionally have "controversial" guests on like Harlan Ellison. I don't recall seeing any of the episodes -- but I can imagine what a free-wheeler like Ellison would do on late night, even in the '70s, with few restrictions on the topics they could bring up.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

I saw Ellison on the Snyder show. It was then that I learned that Ellison was a real asshole.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 18, 2025 03:22 PM (63Dwl)

338 Probably the funniest thing I saw about Colbert getting pinkslipped was an X post noting Stacey Abrams had been on the show 4 times.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 18, 2025 03:22 PM (TdYBy)

339 301 From what I have read "The Colonel" kept him from taking several roles by demanding top billing. John Wayne wanted him for True Grit for instance..

Posted by: steevy at July 18, 2025 03:23 PM (YwEeS)

340 For me it was Fritz the Nite Owl on the CBS affiliate in Columbus. He hosted the 11:30pm movie show on weeknights. He wore huge owl glasses and would make droll comments about the films at every commercial break. I miss him.
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at July 18, 2025 03:19 PM (0bjKf)

HELL YES, Fritz had the Alternate cut to DUNE and played it and other movies. I miss him as well. He would beat Carson on a Regular basis in the ratings

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at July 18, 2025 03:23 PM (FCrpy)

341 'John Lennon was a music genius!!' always makes cringe, like fingernails on a blackboard.

Yoko Ono's Greatest hits makes my dog vomit and run around in circles...........

Posted by: Wally at July 18, 2025 03:23 PM (BltCC)

342 Around '65 or '66, one of our local channels had a movie series presented, commercial-free (except at intro and outro) by a local Oldsmobile dealer. They called it "Pajama Drama" and featured title cards with the dealer in a nightshirt and nightcap like Ebenezer Scrooge.

He presented some good flicks. One was The Breaking Point, a rewrite of Hemingway's To Have and Have Not but more noir-ish than the Bogart film, with John Garfield.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 18, 2025 03:24 PM (omVj0)

343 From what I have read "The Colonel" kept him from taking several roles by demanding top billing. John Wayne wanted him for True Grit for instance..
Posted by: steevy at July 18, 2025

***
He might have made a good Ranger Leboeuf.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 18, 2025 03:24 PM (omVj0)

344 >>>and then show a lame movie brought to you by Andy's Septic Service or Fat Jack's Used Cars (we finance).
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply
=--------

Your job is your credit.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 18, 2025 03:24 PM (vV6Uu)

345 CBS could take a tip from themselves ca. 1971: Run the old BBC Avengers episodes with Patrick Macnee, Honor Blackman, and Diana Rigg. Plus they could add Danger Man/Secret Agent with Patrick McGoohan.

Ratings couldn't be worse and would probably improve.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 18, 2025 03:09 PM (omVj0)

think someone was doing that in the 80s and 90s. Old Mission Impossible too.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 18, 2025 03:25 PM (8avO+)

346 it's easy to discount the merits or significance of older bands when you grow up in the world they helped create

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Sure. The Beatles sucked. When you grow up with all kinds of dorks being lame because they want to emulate the guys who got rich by being the First and Greatest of the Lameoids, then you learn to dislike them just a bit.

Could you have a "Coldplay" without the Beatles before them? Or even a "fun?" I think not. I blame them for the Revenge of the Pussies we all had to live through in the 2000s.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 18, 2025 03:25 PM (UBPHT)

347 The funniest Elvis thing I ever saw...he was on stage absolutely high out of his mind on god know what cocktail of pharmaceuticals...couldn't put a sentence together...and they pan to the crowd and it's all these awestruck beehive ladies just dousing their panties.

Posted by: eleven at July 18, 2025 03:25 PM (fV+MH)

348 Last live show that Elvis did in 1977, despite being messed up visibly by whatever cocktail Dr. Nic had given him, he does an outstanding cover version of Unchained Melody. Sad but demonstrates his great vocal chops.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yis1oa6Cri4

Posted by: whig at July 18, 2025 03:25 PM (ctrM5)

349 When I was in high school, I would do my homework at 11:30 at night while watching old movies. Ed McMahon would come out of the vault holding a movie reel. It was great.

I know the plots of numerous old movie (for which I don't know their names)
Posted by: SMOD at July 18, 2025 03:18 PM (RHGPo)

In college there were a pair of upperclassmen who were famed for knowing the plot of those afternoon movies with about 10 seconds as they came into the suite. It was uncanny.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 18, 2025 03:29 PM (8avO+)

350 ODNI Tulsi Gabbard declassified a presidential briefing revealing Barack Obama knew the Trump-Russia collusion narrative was a hoax.

Posted by: SMOD at July 18, 2025 03:30 PM (RHGPo)

351 CBS, Now Under New Ownership: We're Cancelling Stephen Colbert's Little-Watched Extremist Leftwing Propaganda Orgy and As a Matter of Fact We're Done With the Whole Late Night Talk Show Format

Well....that's disappointing. I just finished sending my pitch to CBS for "The naturalfake Leftwing Lube Talk Show Show"

Really, it's all quality stuff. Here let me give you a taste:

Lesse, okay here's the TnLLTSS theme song done by our housebound The Pipkins of "Gimme Dat Ding" hit song fame.
*canned applause*
*naturalfake comes on stage, bows to the band*

Hi-ho everyone! Welcome to the inaugural episode of "The naturalfake Leftwing Lube Talk Show Show" I'm naturalfake and this is my sidekick from Alpha Centauri, Glarp. And we-

Glarp: Oh, please señor. Please let me go. I self-deport. No keep me chained this sofa.

nf: We've talked about this. no, interrupting-

Glape: Please, somebody help me. He is terrible man. I no alien. I Jose Velejo. He glue doll heads all over my body, paint me green. Please help Jose. I no space alien. naturalfake insane!

***
Ha ha ha! I'm just laughing here watching this myself.
I sure hope CBS changes their minds!

Posted by: naturalfake at July 18, 2025 03:40 PM (iJfKG)

352 Mar A Lago was raided on August 8, 2022.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 18, 2025 03:52 PM (viF8m)

353 Has anyone done a mash-up of George C. Scott's reaction shot from Hardcore with Colbert's terrible Vax-scene routine? It seems like a natural.

Posted by: bill at July 18, 2025 03:53 PM (RS9mh)

354 See B.S. still has its other Fake News Shows like 60 Minutes, Sunday Morning as Eye of America

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at July 18, 2025 06:17 PM (wGqjj)

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