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The Left Is Melting Down As They Realize Their Pet Media Is Dying

Before that: New reporting from The Ankler.

On Vacation, Colbert Didn't Know 'Late Show' Was Dead. His Manager Did

SCOOP: James Dixon waited two weeks to tell his star and more new details about who knew what and when, and what comes next

I guess he withheld the information so as not to upset the unfunnyman during his undeserved vacation?

by Lesley Goldberg

On June 27, just a few days before Paramount would announce its $16 million 60 Minutes settlement with President Trump, James Dixon received a call from CBS executives informing the prominent talent manager that the network was walking away from his client Stephen Colbert's The Late Show. Dixon knew the news more than two weeks before his client, I've learned.

...

The timing of the cancellation news break -- it came three days after a post-vacation Colbert blasted Paramount's settlement with Trump as "a big fat bribe" -- has created terrible optics for the media conglomerate as it awaits formal approval of its merger with Skydance. Nevertheless, multiple sources say the shocking decision to retire the Late Show brand was truly driven by financials as the late-night space has continued to face declining ad revenue and dwindling linear viewers.

Sources tell me it is standard procedure for network executives to communicate news about Late Show through Dixon (who did not respond to multiple requests for comment). The manager -- who also reps Jon Stewart and Kimmel -- also received a call a year ago from CBS executives informing him of impending budget cuts to Late Show, sources say. These same sources say five staffers were laid off a year ago as additional "nips and tucks" were made across the show, and Colbert, who's paid $15 million a year, is said to have helped come up with unique ways to reduce its budget. At the time, insiders were optimistic that the advertising market would turn around.

The show is simply not funny. It seems to specialize in Boomer Cringe. See, for example, this lowlight of Mark Cuban warbling out an awful "rap" about Trump.

Or watch this clip from the show during which Colbert announced his cancellation. He got a bunch of other unfunny late-night TV clowns to sit in the audience and pretend to cheer for them, including Anderson Cooper.

And including, sadly, Adam Sandler. I don't know why Sandler is there. Maybe they're personal friends.


Leftwing psychopaths continue shrieking that by cancelling a terrible late night talk show, they're taking Muh Democracy away and carrying on like perfect maniacs.

And then there's Maude:


Why is the left melting down? Here are some of the reasons I can think of:

1. The left is always melting down about literally anything. Okay, this is an easy one. Survey after survey shows that the left suffers from diagnosed mental illness at frightening rates, chiefly in the "melting down" sectors of mental illness, such as anxiety, panic, narcissism, catastrophism, etc.

2. The left is obsessed with taking over cultural terrain and using it for propaganda purposes. From comic books to role playing games to knitting circles, the left is obsessed with deploying Adolf Hitler's strategy of sending in Nazis to take over every single social club or pastime that people enjoy and turning them into nothing but Nazi propaganda hubs. Obviously they are angry when they lose the hills they fought so hard to capture.

3. The left is bewildered that it turns out that the majority of people hate their mentally-ill, malignant guts and they depend more than is mentally healthy on Prophets and Priests and Witches in the media to reassure them that despite losing elections and being increasingly -- I love this -- canceled, they're really quite popular. They tune in to Saturday Night Live not for laughs, but for the communion of a religious sermon. Losing Stephen Colbert feels to them as a Christian might feel when a church gets demolished and replaced by a Wal-Mart. Or a mosque. It hurts.

4. Although I doubt most lefties are mentally fit enough to understand this, I think many do have an inkling -- a fear -- that communism can only advance through mind-control and coercion, and that they cannot possibly win without massive forced contributions to their cult through NGOs and of course capture of formerly "elite" institutions of ideological brainwashing. They know they need to take money from normal, healthy people through taxation and deliver it to the left's propaganda operations if they're to have a chance. Any loss of an NGO or stupid TV show is a grievous wound to their propaganda operations.

5. This is a bit of a repetition, but we have to remember that starting in 2008, when Obama threatened corporate leaders that "I'm the only thing standing between you and the pitchforks," corporations were bullied into re-making themselves into Social Justice production companies. The left deploys the creepy euphemism "Whole of Society solutions," which means, simply, "we will bully all institutions and corporations into forcing our political will on a powerless public." "Whole of Society" is really just the old fascist dream of uniting governmental power with corporate power to make sure that every citizen is constantly under the threat of punishment from the left for political deviation. A government in the US can't fire people from non-government jobs for just opposing the left -- but a corporation dominated by the left can fire employees for being insufficiently devoted to the Great Socialist Cause.

The new owner of Paramount and CBS is known to be a Trump supporter. They feel this loss acutely, and fear that other corporations will throw off leftwing control.


And finally:


6. The left is made up overwhelmingly of marginal and unaccomplished people who know that they are failures but reassure themselves that they're Secret Winners because they belong to a culture which features successful people. In other words, they ignore their own personal failures and focus on the victories of the more-accomplished idiots of their gutter culture to convince themselves that they're really accomplished themselves. They have no personal victories; for them, another left-winger landing a prestigious late-night talk show host gig is really their own victory. And therefore, one of their cultural avatars losing feels like a personal loss, too.

This is a major driver of allegiance to the left. The left is filled with extremely stupid and uneducated people who believe they're smart and educated because other leftwingers dominate the academy, for example. They will literally claim to be intellectuals themselves because other people identifying as left-wing are intellectuals.

90% of the attraction of the left is the promise made to simpletons and failures that if they believe hard enough in the cult, all of the accomplishments of higher-ranking cult members are their own accomplishments.

How can lefty losers claim to be Secret Winners when all of the people who prove, somehow, that they're Secret Winners are being cancelled and being fired?

Posted by: Ace at 04:23 PM




Comments

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1 Top 10?

Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at July 23, 2025 04:23 PM (USyCi)

2 A staffer for the Democratic Party of Brown County, Wisconsin, made death threats against Rep. Tony Wied (R-WI) and his office

Posted by: SMOD at July 23, 2025 04:23 PM (RHGPo)

3 Still not tired of winning

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 23, 2025 04:24 PM (aPBRN)

4 Colbert is not funny

Kimmel is not funny

Fallon is not funny

Aren't they supposed to be doing comedy?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 23, 2025 04:25 PM (t0Rmr)

5 HA HA!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 23, 2025 04:26 PM (ULPxl)

6 I see the left is melting down over Nintendo casting a woman to play the female character of Zelda.

WTF

Why would anyone cast some dude in woman face if you want your movie to succeed?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 23, 2025 04:27 PM (t0Rmr)

7 Colbert is not funny

Kimmel is not funny

Fallon is not funny

Aren't they supposed to be doing comedy?
Posted by: 18-1 at July 23, 2025 04:25 PM (t0Rmr)
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Does it count if I laugh as they're shown the door?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 23, 2025 04:27 PM (tT6L1)

8 I guess he withheld the information so as not to upset the unfunnyman during his undeserved vacation?
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LOL, ace.

"Late night unfunnyman, Stephen Colbert" has a ring to it.

Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2025 04:27 PM (krQz2)

9 You can trace the distrust of the legacy media back to 1968 and walter kronkite declaring the Vietnam was lost.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 23, 2025 04:27 PM (e5NfL)

10
I wonder how much taxpayer money was being funneled to these twats.

Posted by: ... at July 23, 2025 04:28 PM (h0r72)

11
And including, sadly, Adam Sandler. I don't know why Sandler is there. Maybe they're personal friends.




Sandler is whoring himself for Happy Gilmore 2 right now, so he's going to be everywhere.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 23, 2025 04:28 PM (y9nCu)

12 And BTW, the non funny thing isn't wholly political, Letterman was funny and obviously a leftwing scumbag

I assume Ferguson is left of center and he's funny.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 23, 2025 04:28 PM (t0Rmr)

13 TRUMP made his show lose 40 million/year.

Or ... was that shilling for the death stick?

Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2025 04:28 PM (krQz2)

14 And then there's Maude:


Where's Adrienne Barbeau in a sweater?

Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 04:28 PM (77rzZ)

15 Look at these liberal talking heads falling to the way side a soon as the USAID money dried up.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 23, 2025 04:29 PM (GBH2X)

16 Sandler is whoring himself for Happy Gilmore 2 right now, so he's going to be everywhere.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 23, 2025 04:28 PM (y9nCu)
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Sandler doesn't have a problem with money and marketing. He knows what business he's in.

Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2025 04:29 PM (krQz2)

17 I don't believe this timeline nonsense. Colbert knew he was fired when he attacked the deal as a big bribe, I am sure of it.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 23, 2025 04:29 PM (8avO+)

18
You can trace the distrust of the legacy media back to 1968 and walter kronkite declaring the Vietnam was lost.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 23, 2025 04:27 PM (e5NfL)

__________

Allen Drury, a journalist, called them out in the late 1950s.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 23, 2025 04:29 PM (HZi96)

19 Kimmel was funny on The Man Show and Win Ben Stein's Money. Since then, not so much.

Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 04:29 PM (77rzZ)

20 >>>“If the comedians are being attacked, then that means our Constitution is being dismantled."

Ergo, our Constitution is intact.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 23, 2025 04:29 PM (i24o9)

21 Very few people know about the 37th amendment. It states anyone employed by a network shall be employed for life regardless of ability.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 23, 2025 04:30 PM (Vvm2m)

22 Liking Tulsi more and more each day.

Posted by: ... at July 23, 2025 04:30 PM (h0r72)

23 The loudest noise comes from the smallest crowd.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 23, 2025 04:30 PM (CHHv1)

24 There was always a huge disconnect between a profitable business and liberalization of media.

I'm just shocked they let it go on so long.

Like it had to be someone's pet project to let the company lose 40 million a year just to espouse nonsense to 73 people.

Maybe Trump gave these CEOs their balls back where they can worry more about the stock price without worrying about a childish mob outside their marble foyers.

Placate children and you get childish behavior.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 23, 2025 04:30 PM (17l0u)

25 Whenever I joggle over to Facebook I spend a little time on the reels (short videos for the non addicted) and have noticed lately that many of them are now lefty propaganda shorts where maybe 2 weeks ago there were none at all. I never click on them, and assiduously hit the 'hide' button, but every day there's more. I can only guess they're getting desperate to get their lame-brained OMG HOT TAKES out into the ether.

Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at July 23, 2025 04:30 PM (Ft5W9)

26 Sandler is whoring himself for Happy Gilmore 2 right now, so he's going to be everywhere.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 23, 2025 04:28 PM (y9nCu)
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I saw a clip and Sandler was bemoaning the fact several cast members from the original are no longer among the living. From the way he came across, it seems he's genuinely upset they're not available for 2.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 23, 2025 04:30 PM (tT6L1)

27 “If the comedians are being attacked, then that means our Constitution is being dismantled."

The Founding Fathers included unfunny , obnoxious comedians in there? I must have missed it. Maybe it was an amendment added during the Obama years.

Posted by: Ripley at July 23, 2025 04:30 PM (GUOwU)

28 Allen Drury, a journalist, called them out in the late 1950s.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

You ever read his "Advise and Consent?" My wife loves that book.

Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 04:31 PM (77rzZ)

29 90% of the attraction of the left is the promise made to simpletons and failures that if they believe hard enough in the cult, all of the accomplishments of higher-ranking cult members are their own accomplishments.
----------------- -----------------------

Sounds a bit like manifesting by proxy. The latest new age fad is "manifesting," the belief that you can alter reality if you believe hard enough.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 23, 2025 04:31 PM (P13oB)

30 I thought old white men were the devil.

Now they’re heroes?

I’m so confused.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 23, 2025 04:31 PM (Vvm2m)

31 Kimmel was funny on The Man Show and Win Ben Stein's Money. Since then, not so much.

Looking back on it though Carolla and Stein carried those shows, Kimmel was the dim witted straight man. Which means he needs to be a comedian's side kick to succeed.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 23, 2025 04:31 PM (t0Rmr)

32 10
I wonder how much taxpayer money was being funneled to these twats.
Posted by: ... at July 23, 2025 04:28 PM (h0r72)

My impression is that USAID money was laundered through these lefty shows (how else do you waste that much money on something that is marginally successful?), and now that the grift is drying up, there's no reason to keep them.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 23, 2025 04:31 PM (1Gsou)

33 Colbert is not funny

Kimmel is not funny

Fallon is not funny

Aren't they supposed to be doing comedy?
Posted by: 18-1 at July 23, 2025 04:25 PM (t0Rmr)
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That's why Colbert's show is overpaying their writers to the tune of 40 million a year. Which actually means that if they only had enough writers for 60 million a year salaries, they'd break even.

Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2025 04:31 PM (krQz2)

34 You ever read his "Advise and Consent?" My wife loves that book.

I’ve read it. It’s a good book. Sounds very much like it incorporates real people, but that may just be because Drury is a good writer.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 23, 2025 04:32 PM (EXyHK)

35 This is so sad

Well anyway...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 23, 2025 04:32 PM (VE6XX)

36 Not paying attention it appeared that Stewart was
making fun of Colbert. Should have known better.

Posted by: Braenard - some Best Friends are more important than others at July 23, 2025 04:32 PM (cntUY)

37 I pronounce his name Coal-Burt.

Him pronouncing it Co-Bare is just another piece of his anti-American puzzle.

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 23, 2025 04:32 PM (4d1jT)

38 Or watch this clip from the show during which Colbert announced his cancellation. He got a bunch of other unfunny late-night TV clowns to sit in the audience and pretend to cheer for them, including Anderson Cooper.

And including, sadly, Adam Sandler. I don't know why Sandler is there. Maybe they're personal friends.


So, every one of the talk show types, save Gutfeld, who wasn't there, is on board with this. I thought diversity was our strength.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 23, 2025 04:32 PM (Riz8t)

39 >>>3. The left is bewildered that it turns out that the majority of people hate their mentally-ill, malignant guts

Hell hath no fury like a leftists scorned. They were shocked at Trump 1, and oh so willing eat up the clearly garbage propaganda, to avoid the uncomfortable truth that "it is not us, it is them.

Trump 2 is the bashing over the head with a 2x4 that same readily available conclusion.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 23, 2025 04:32 PM (i24o9)

40 How does SNL survive?

They haven't been funny since the 80s.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 23, 2025 04:32 PM (17l0u)

41 "This is a major driver of allegiance to the left. The left is filled with extremely stupid and uneducated people who believe they're smart and educated because other leftwingers dominate the academy, for example. They will literally claim to be intellectuals themselves because other people identifying as left-wing are intellectuals."

This, and the capture of institutions bit mentioned earlier allows untalented people to signal intelligence by pretending to read "the right news". When I started in teaching in 2006 all the other teachers pretended they were reading Friedman's "The World is Flat". In 2017 it was necessary to claim you read NYT 'cover to cover' (if you didn't subscribe to both NYT AND WaPo). I had a coworker who kept bothering me with articles he read on "The Atlantic". It was very important I knew he had a subscription, even though I showed zero interest at all.

Posted by: the lower depths at July 23, 2025 04:32 PM (+b4rY)

42 The really screwy thing about Colbert being cancelled is that the Dems actually considered him one their intellectual leaders . Think about that. The party is relying on unfunny late night "comics" to try to attract voters and to keep others in line. Perfect evidence as to why the Dems are coming apart at the seams

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 23, 2025 04:32 PM (8UsV6)

43 From the way he came across, it seems he's genuinely upset they're not available for 2.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 23, 2025 04:30 PM (tT6L1)
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He's one of the most genuine dudes in Hollywood, as I hear it.

Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2025 04:32 PM (krQz2)

44 Looking back on it though Carolla and Stein carried those shows, Kimmel was the dim witted straight man. Which means he needs to be a comedian's side kick to succeed.
Posted by: 18-1

That's a fair point.

Whatever happened to Ben Stein, anyway? Has he passed on?

Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 04:33 PM (77rzZ)

45 Sandler's promoting a movie. That's why he's there.

Posted by: AMartel at July 23, 2025 04:33 PM (otvi3)

46 Colbert is basically TEMU Phil Hartman (who of course was actually funny).

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 23, 2025 04:33 PM (qpyNK)

47 "The new owner of Paramount and CBS is known to be a Trump supporter. They feel this loss acutely, and fear that other corporations will throw off leftwing control."

Seriously? I have been praying daily for the past couple of years that this would happen.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 23, 2025 04:33 PM (NpAcC)

48 The loudest noise comes from the smallest squeak hole.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 23, 2025 04:34 PM (MPQZ2)

49 Comedians basically went woke and gave up on comedy when Obama became president. Fuck them. No amount of misfortune can befall them that I won't cheer.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 23, 2025 04:34 PM (4/BuS)

50 The Founding Fathers included unfunny , obnoxious comedians in there? I must have missed it.

-------

If memory serves me correctly they are to be counted as three-fifths of a person...

Posted by: Crusader at July 23, 2025 04:34 PM (TN0g+)

51 He needs to go to therapy , where the therapist will help him deal with being fired...or he can call Tucker Carlson for tips for surviving being fired from a network.

Posted by: runner at July 23, 2025 04:34 PM (g47mK)

52 The left is filled with extremely stupid and uneducated people who believe they're smart and educated because other leftwingers dominate the academy, for example.

Depends on your definition of "educated". They certainly have credentials, but the value of the credentials is very much in doubt.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 23, 2025 04:34 PM (Riz8t)

53 Thinking about it more, the fact that they are howling this loudly just proves the point that CoalBert was straight propaganda.

This stung.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 23, 2025 04:34 PM (17l0u)

54 Kimmel used to be funny, he sold out to the message.

Posted by: Inogame at July 23, 2025 04:35 PM (53oGX)

55 How does SNL survive?

They haven't been funny since the 80s.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 23, 2025 04:32 PM (17l0u)


90s SNL was amazing.

But the way it survives today is the same as always. It’s cheap as fuck. Nobody makes any real money on the show. It’s a stepping stone so people will work cheap to be on the show for a few years. That’s why they all leave as soon as they make it big.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 23, 2025 04:36 PM (Vvm2m)

56 The right to get paid millions for being an unfunny communist hack is right there in the LXIX Amendment. Jeez... where did you people go to school?


Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 23, 2025 04:36 PM (qpyNK)

57 Sunny Hostin on Colbert cancellation: “If the comedians are being attacked, then that means our Constitution is being dismantled."
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Direct quote from Shecky Adams, I think.

Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2025 04:36 PM (krQz2)

58 >>>He's one of the most genuine dudes in Hollywood, as I hear it.

I don't want to brag, but okay I do, I went to his big annual Christmas/Hannukah party back around 2010. Allen Covert, writer and star of Grandma's Boy and a reader (back then, at least) had slipped me a couple of invites.

Posted by: ace at July 23, 2025 04:36 PM (KRtlO)

59 All of that does sound pretty plausible (especially the first), plus I think there are a lot of people in entertainment who see their own careers on the line, and sicne they control pop culture news, and entertainment, are using their megaphone to protect their own phoney baloney jobs.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2025 04:36 PM (dfIr7)

60 Sorry. I don't remember much of the 90s.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 23, 2025 04:37 PM (17l0u)

61 Another reason they're melting down:

The show served as an exclusive platform for lefty politicians.

Someone showed a list of all the political guests Colbert had on this year and there were like 40+ libs.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 23, 2025 04:37 PM (KbCG3)

62 Sounds a bit like manifesting by proxy. The latest new age fad is "manifesting," the belief that you can alter reality if you believe hard enough.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 23, 2025 04:31 PM (P13oB)

I've manifested the pants off of Kate Upton.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 23, 2025 04:37 PM (i24o9)

63 Sunny Hostin on Colbert cancellation: “If the comedians are being attacked, then that means our Constitution is being dismantled."

And IF our Constitution is being dismantled, I put it to you that this is an indictment of our American way of life...

Posted by: Archimedes at July 23, 2025 04:37 PM (Riz8t)

64 I don't want to brag, but okay I do, I went to his big annual Christmas/Hannukah party back around 2010. Allen Covert, writer and star of Grandma's Boy and a reader (back then, at least) had slipped me a couple of invites.
Posted by: ace at July 23, 2025 04:36 PM (KRtlO)


You're famous adjacent!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 23, 2025 04:37 PM (17l0u)

65 57 Sunny Hostin on Colbert cancellation: “If the comedians are being attacked, then that means our Constitution is being dismantled."
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And who "attacked" Colbert ? He was canned because his show wasn't funny and it cost the network Millions in losses...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 23, 2025 04:37 PM (VE6XX)

66 From the way he came across, it seems he's genuinely upset they're not available for 2.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 23, 2025 04:30 PM (tT6L1)
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He's one of the most genuine dudes in Hollywood, as I hear it.
Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2025 04:32 PM (krQz2)

—-

That may be true, but maybe waiting 29 years to do a sequel might have something to do with it.

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 23, 2025 04:38 PM (4d1jT)

67 Sounds a bit like manifesting by proxy. The latest new age fad is "manifesting," the belief that you can alter reality if you believe hard enough.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 23, 2025 04:31 PM (P13oB)
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That's how we're going to get back to the timeline where Kamala wins.

Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2025 04:38 PM (krQz2)

68 i wouldn't want to out someone like Covert but he is so clearly #Based on Twitter I don't think I'm letting out a big secret.

Posted by: ace at July 23, 2025 04:38 PM (KRtlO)

69 61 Another reason they're melting down:

The show served as an exclusive platform for lefty politicians.

Someone showed a list of all the political guests Colbert had on this year and there were like 40+ libs.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 23, 2025 04:37 PM (KbCG3

Stacy Abrams has been on Colbert 4 times.

The market for her outside of biggirl pr0n is pretty niche. Even more niche than biggirl pr0n.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 23, 2025 04:38 PM (4/BuS)

70
Jonathan Turley just tweeted this out, which made me laugh out of loud:

"My apologies to my friend Tulsi Gabbard just now. I misspoke on air and credited a city in Oklahoma with her historic declassification of documents. To the residents of Tulsa, I can only say that, while you are less relevant to the story, you are no less important to the nation."

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 23, 2025 04:38 PM (w6EFb)

71 Best snl years were when you were 15-20 years old.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 23, 2025 04:38 PM (Vvm2m)

72 Listening to Sunny Hostin will cause your IQ to drop 40 pts.

Posted by: dantesed at July 23, 2025 04:38 PM (Oy/m2)

73 A time for joy,
A time for tears
A time we'll treasure through the years.
We'll remember always
DEPORTATION DAY!

Posted by: night lifted at July 23, 2025 04:38 PM (/YboP)

74 I'm guessing the lefties all think Trump called the network head and got Colbert fired personally.

He's the bogeyman of their dreams.

One...two...Donald's coming for you...

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 23, 2025 04:39 PM (17l0u)

75 Trump is the ONLY person who could have done this: bring down Hollywood, DC, AND the media. Trump is the only person who could take down the Obama cabal. His entire life prepared him for this moment in time.
It is amazing to watch and see the people God chooses to raises up for “such a time as this”

Posted by: Jmel at July 23, 2025 04:39 PM (bVhJi)

76 SNL can never be fixed. What I really miss is National Lampoon. Loved that magazine.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 23, 2025 04:39 PM (W3T6M)

77 Sunny Hostin on Colbert cancellation: “If the comedians are being attacked, then that means our Constitution is being dismantled."

Could we ask Sunny if she is willing to let Ryan Long do a set on her show?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 23, 2025 04:39 PM (t0Rmr)

78 when we had Buck Dharma of Blue Oyster Cult, I avoided political questions because I didn't want to out him. I later found out, I think from his son, that he was disappointed, because he wanted to talk conservative politics.

whoops.

Posted by: ace at July 23, 2025 04:40 PM (KRtlO)

79 67 Sounds a bit like manifesting by proxy. The latest new age fad is "manifesting," the belief that you can alter reality if you believe hard enough.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 23, 2025 04:31 PM (P13oB)

Sounds like a rehash of The Secret

Posted by: It's me donna at July 23, 2025 04:40 PM (VE6XX)

80 Apologies to the 4 Freshman, if they're alive

Posted by: night lifted at July 23, 2025 04:40 PM (/YboP)

81 This is a bit of a repetition, but we have to remember that starting in 2008, when Obama threatened corporate leaders that "I'm the only thing standing between you and the pitchforks," corporations were bullied into re-making themselves into Social Justice production companies.
==

That was a pretty effective threat. But it didn't start with Obama. For decades, it was impossible for a center or conservative-managed communications company to purchase a legacy media company at any price. Newsweek, for instance, was put up for sale, IIRC, for $1 - but not to an unapproved bidder. If a "fair and balanced" company made an offer for a newspaper, a radio network, or a TV news division, they repudiated and denounced for their impudence.

Posted by: mrp at July 23, 2025 04:40 PM (rj6Yv)

82 It's just like Norm MacDonald said. Some comedians want laughs and others want applause.

Posted by: Jim Rose at July 23, 2025 04:41 PM (miqrx)

83 Please... please, I'm not obsolete; I have a function, I have a purpose. Please. I've served the State. Please... please, no... I'm not obsolete! No, no! Please! I'm not obsolete. No! I've supported the State; please, no! Please! I'm not obsolete! I, I please, no; I'm not obsolete, no! I serve the State... Please, please! NO! I support the State!

Posted by: Stephen Colbert, Obsolete Man at July 23, 2025 04:41 PM (lX1hk)

84 And who "attacked" Colbert ? He was canned because his show wasn't funny and it cost the network Millions in losses...
Posted by: It's me donna at July 23, 2025 04:37 PM (VE6XX)
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To a lot of these people it "doesn't feel like it".

Remember, that when conservatives get an idea that does not correspond with the public facts, it's up to THEM to change their mind.

If a Dem feels the facts don't match, you have to UNDERSTAND how they feel.

Potato was on CNN saying "It looks a lot like..."

Yeah, but don't we also know "appearances can be deceiving". When something only looks a certain way to the "right", we're "WRONG" (and bad) for thinking it's that way.

But we have to listen to them drone on and on about how something "looks".

Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2025 04:41 PM (krQz2)

85 Sunny Hostin on Colbert cancellation: "If the comedians are being attacked, then that means our Constitution is being dismantled."

Here's the thing. Nobody is surprised that Sunny Hostin has a stupid take. I think her handlers have to teach her how to chew every meal. Its just that her takes are so incredibly stupid its hard to believe that is even possible.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2025 04:41 PM (dfIr7)

86 Sooo Happy Gilmore II? Who says Hollywood is out of ideas?

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 23, 2025 04:42 PM (wBaIH)

87 Listening to Sunny Hostin will cause your IQ to drop 40 pts.
Posted by: dantesed at July 23, 2025 04:38 PM (Oy/m2)


Sunny Hostin could be replaced by a stuffed parrot who, occasionally, squawks out 'racism' or 'sexism'. It'd let them cut down on salary for the show also.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 23, 2025 04:42 PM (ExV1e)

88 Whoa it just dawned on me that Sunny Hostin has the perfect last name to be a TV show host. How have I never noticed that? 😅

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 23, 2025 04:42 PM (Vvm2m)

89 At the time, insiders were optimistic that the advertising market would turn around.

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Completely devoid of business acumen. It needs to be explained to them that advertising market picks up when your ratings go up. If your ratings are shrinking the advertising market goes looking to invest where ratings are high and going up. Yet they pride themselves on intelligence.

Posted by: Decaf at July 23, 2025 04:42 PM (unUNN)

90 Most comedy has shifted left. Most. Like their politics, the left doesn't react well to rejection of anything they champion. It starts off with bitching and moaning, escalates to threats and eventually ends up in violence.

Predictable.

You could probably chart it out to within hours of each stage.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 23, 2025 04:42 PM (Q4IgG)

91 > Posted by: Stephen Colbert, Obsolete Man at July 23, 2025 04:41 PM (lX1hk)

It's always an unpleasant surprise when they figure out that they've transitioned from "useful idiot" to "useless eater".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 23, 2025 04:42 PM (qpyNK)

92 I don't believe I've ever seen an Adam Sandler movie.

Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 04:43 PM (77rzZ)

93 when we had Buck Dharma of Blue Oyster Cult, I avoided political questions because I didn't want to out him. I later found out, I think from his son, that he was disappointed, because he wanted to talk conservative politics.

whoops.
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I think many people even from that era of music forget how legitimately *good* Blue Oyster Cult was during their prime. I saw them live twice, 10 years apart. The first they opened for Rush, and the latter they opened for the Allman Brothers. Those audiences aren't necessarily carbon copies of each other, but BOC delivered great music at each show. They were very tight live.

Posted by: Crusader at July 23, 2025 04:43 PM (TN0g+)

94 It's just like Norm MacDonald said. Some comedians want laughs and others want applause.

well and he went even further to state that its not comedy if you get applause. Its more like the praise mommy gives your horrible crayon drawing and puts on the refrigerator.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2025 04:43 PM (dfIr7)

95 Weird Al playing Coldplay to an audience of: Anderson Cooper, Andy Cohen, Seth Meyers, Jimmy Fallon, Jon Stewart, Adam Sandler and more…

"It's a big club. You're not in it.", vibes.
The problem is that these club-members then expect us plebs to come and support them at their gigs.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 23, 2025 04:43 PM (gKWVE)

96 92 I don't believe I've ever seen an Adam Sandler movie.
Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 04:43 PM (77rzZ)

I've seen one... Fifty first dates

Posted by: It's me donna at July 23, 2025 04:43 PM (VE6XX)

97 the belief that you can alter reality if you believe hard enough.

That's an Edith Piaf song.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 23, 2025 04:43 PM (MPQZ2)

98 Colbert and Stewart whining Colbert was canned by order of Trump is the funniest thing they've ever said.

If Trump or his attorneys had told CBS to can Colbert or no settlement deal, CBS would have publicly said so immediately. CBS would demand Trump's impeachment. CBS would instantly leap to the top of the Anti-Trump Hill. And would have kept Colbert on-air for at least an additional few years to keep sticking-it to Trump for meddling with the press, while continuing to eat Late Show money and losses.

Posted by: Gref at July 23, 2025 04:43 PM (aBgBM)

99 "They will literally claim to be intellectuals themselves because other people identifying as left-wing are intellectuals." Sorry, "other people identifying as left-wing are intellectuals" assumes facts not in evidence. In any field dominated by leftist intellectuals, the conclusions are almost always laughably wrong and the results predictably disastrous. And that is obvious to everyone, except the "intellectuals," before the damage happens. If this is really going to be how we use the term "intellectual," it needs to have a different connotation than it currently does. Most people think it means educated, smart, and possessing expertise, but virtually all leftist intellectuals today are none of those. The word should be used as an insult if we are accurately describing the left.

Posted by: DPICM at July 23, 2025 04:44 PM (M2VUX)

100 Adam Sandler movies are all over the place in quality.

He's even done good serious movies like The Spaceman or Click, but he's done some truly terrible movies too

Posted by: 18-1 at July 23, 2025 04:44 PM (t0Rmr)

101 Sunny Hostin regularly lets us know having a law degree doesn't necessarily mean anything.

With apologies to those on the board who actually know something about the law.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 23, 2025 04:44 PM (tT6L1)

102 Please... please, I'm not obsolete; I have a function, I have a purpose. Please. I've served the State. Please... please, no... I'm not obsolete! No, no! Please! I'm not obsolete. No! I've supported the State; please, no! Please! I'm not obsolete! I, I please, no; I'm not obsolete, no! I serve the State... Please, please! NO! I support the State!

Posted by: Stephen Colbert, Obsolete Man


Particle man, particle man
Particle man hates Obsolete man
They have a fight, particle wins
Particle man

Posted by: Archimedes at July 23, 2025 04:44 PM (Riz8t)

103 when we had Buck Dharma of Blue Oyster Cult, I avoided political questions because I didn't want to out him. I later found out, I think from his son, that he was disappointed, because he wanted to talk conservative politics.

whoops.

Posted by: ace at July 23, 2025 04:40 PM (KRtlO)

I still see him commenting here, unless someone is socking him, which would be an odd sock.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 23, 2025 04:44 PM (i24o9)

104 Stephen Colbert just showing CBS/Paramount what a huge mistake they’re making (ratings and $ wise).

Had Lin-Manuel Miranda and Weird Al playing Coldplay to an audience of: Anderson Cooper, Andy Cohen, Seth Meyers, Jimmy Fallon, Jon Stewart, Adam Sandler and more…

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The Weird Al of old would have had a parody skit of Colbert by now.

Posted by: Decaf at July 23, 2025 04:44 PM (unUNN)

105 They can't be funny because they are constantly attacking "American Values".

And always pushing ... perversions, or communism ... hating on 70% of the country. But they think they are vanguards for ? The Great Leftism, or some such.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 23, 2025 04:44 PM (vbXSk)

106 Someone showed a list of all the political guests Colbert had on this year and there were like 40+ libs.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 23, 2025 04:37 PM (KbCG3
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They had like Dem appearances in the hundreds. And I think the total of Pub appearances was 5.

Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2025 04:44 PM (krQz2)

107 78 when we had Buck Dharma of Blue Oyster Cult, I avoided political questions because I didn't want to out him. I later found out, I think from his son, that he was disappointed, because he wanted to talk conservative politics.

whoops.
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That's interesting, Ace, because a few days ago in James Lileks morning Bleat post he mentioned that Buck had called him.

Posted by: beckster at July 23, 2025 04:44 PM (NLtte)

108 How can someone as useless as Stephen Colbert makes as much money as him? I mean I'm fully capable of being perfectly useless.

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at July 23, 2025 04:44 PM (kTd/k)

109 I think many people even from that era of music forget how legitimately *good* Blue Oyster Cult was during their prime. I saw them live twice, 10 years apart. The first they opened for Rush, and the latter they opened for the Allman Brothers. Those audiences aren't necessarily carbon copies of each other, but BOC delivered great music at each show. They were very tight live.
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Yeah, saw them once. They opened for Alice Cooper.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 23, 2025 04:45 PM (W3T6M)

110 I look at Nate Bargatze's seeming lack of overt political bias as a sign the left's grip on entertainment is slipping.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at July 23, 2025 04:45 PM (jYRYu)

111 100 Adam Sandler movies are all over the place in quality.

He's even done good serious movies like The Spaceman or Click, but he's done some truly terrible movies too

Posted by: 18-1 at July 23, 2025 04:44 PM (t0Rmr)

Haven't seen it in forever but I remember really liking Spanglish.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 23, 2025 04:45 PM (KbCG3)

112 "Those audiences aren't necessarily carbon copies of each other, but BOC delivered great music at each show. They were very tight live."

Yeah. Blue Oyster Cult was amazingly tight and they had just a string of great albums one after another. I think Imaginos is probably their final really great album but they still are putting out good stuff that I enjoy.

I love when people hear their best of and realize how many of those songs they love but didn't know it was BOC.

In an odd twist, blue oyster has become some kind of obscure homosexual internal reference, though.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2025 04:45 PM (dfIr7)

113 He's even done good serious movies like The Spaceman or Click, but he's done some truly terrible movies too
Posted by: 18-1 at July 23, 2025 04:44 PM (t0Rmr)


Any good whore will tell you, sometimes you're just going through the motions.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 23, 2025 04:45 PM (17l0u)

114 Johnny Carson was funny and he interviewed people who you might be interested in seeing. Sometimes, they were funny, too.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/udY69ykjGOk

Posted by: huerfano at July 23, 2025 04:46 PM (n2swS)

115 Sunny will be Hostin under the overpass in a couple of years.

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 23, 2025 04:46 PM (4d1jT)

116 "Grandma's Boy" was underrated. Script needed some tweaking but it was almost on par with "Office Space".

Posted by: gKWVE at July 23, 2025 04:46 PM (gKWVE)

117 Any good whore will tell you, sometimes you're just going through the motions.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 23, 2025 04:45 PM (17l0u)
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I think Sandler admits as much.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 23, 2025 04:46 PM (tT6L1)

118 That's interesting, Ace, because a few days ago in James Lileks morning Bleat post he mentioned that Buck had called him.
Posted by: beckster

Lileks got canned from the Strib, didn't he?

Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 04:47 PM (77rzZ)

119 Adam Sandler movies are all over the place in quality.

He's even done good serious movies like The Spaceman or Click, but he's done some truly terrible movies too

Posted by: 18-1 at July 23, 2025 04:44 PM (t0Rmr)
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Click is a Sandler-style comedy.

I enjoy most Sandler movies--but Little Nicky sucks.

Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2025 04:47 PM (krQz2)

120 Face it. "Wokism" is a small dominant niche. The simple fact of the matter is that there are relatively few visible and influential leaders of all the nonsense. So, it's felt significantly when one of them disappears from the stage.

Then you have the mentality of those who hang on their every word and try to institute it into everyday life. They are non-player characters. They have to be told what to do and think or they aren't comfortable. When they lose a lynchpin to that comfort zone, they are forced to establish a similar relationship with someone they might not "claim" to know as well. And, their own self-importance requires a detailed vetting process.

So much work to gather information and instructions from higher ranking retards. Still, it's entertaining to watch.

Bonus: as more and more of these small niche "leaders" get shown the door, their followers get more and more upset, until you end up with a room full of lunatics acting out in support of the last man standing, which will do nothing more than expedite that last man's exit as well.

Well, the retards of society had a good run. Time to start up a new genre of idiocy.

Posted by: Orson at July 23, 2025 04:47 PM (dIske)

121 I was shocked to see a list of the most intelligent celebrities, and find that Weird Al was among them. He was a prodigy.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 23, 2025 04:47 PM (wBaIH)

122 Someone mentioned Ryan Long.

His version of political humor is what humor is intended to be.

The left's version of political humor is simply pointing at someone they don't like and saying that they suck dick.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 23, 2025 04:47 PM (KbCG3)

123 How can lefty losers claim to be Secret Winners when all of the people who prove, somehow, that they're Secret Winners are being cancelled and being fired?
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There is a spiritual warfare element as well. These people have marinated in rage for a long time, and really, really believed final victory was at hand.

The Christian remnant would be annihilated, Woke would be ascendant and all their infernal dreams would come true.

Now they are filled with fear because God is on the move, and they fear judgement may come for them. It's funny how some have physically fled, but you can't outrun God.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 23, 2025 04:47 PM (ZOv7s)

124 110 I look at Nate Bargatze's seeming lack of overt political bias as a sign the left's grip on entertainment is slipping.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at July 23, 2025 04:45 PM (jYRYu)

Give him time to grow. He's basically where Jim Gaffigan was at the start of his career. It's all self-deprecating dad jokes now, but soon he'll yearn to bring Current Year Hitler to heel.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 23, 2025 04:48 PM (4/BuS)

125 College age me absolutely loved Adam Sandler movies. Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, Waterboy, Zohan. Comedy Gold Jerry!!

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 23, 2025 04:48 PM (Vvm2m)

126 Why does the left ruin everything they touch? I mean statistically it not even possible to be this wrong about everything all the time. Random guessing has a better track record.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 23, 2025 04:48 PM (0kwZe)

127 How can someone as useless as Stephen Colbert makes as much money as him? I mean I'm fully capable of being perfectly useless.

That hits me a lot when I see people doing some job terribly and getting paid so much. I mean, damn I can suck for a tenth that much, why him?

As for Wierd Al, I don't think he's political, I think he just gets work where he can and was scheduled that night. He wasn't making a statement.

And Sandler is super supportive of his friends, he just doesn't have great taste in them.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2025 04:48 PM (dfIr7)

128 Craig Ferguson knew what was needed for a good late show. Attractive women, and shameless flirting from both sides.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 23, 2025 04:48 PM (OGOaV)

129 Mission #1 for a comedian - be funny. You want to be a political commentator, well, the podcast line starts over there.

These cocksuckers attacked any comic would would go against the Leftist narrative, so they can all piss off.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at July 23, 2025 04:48 PM (MZ+PY)

130
I still see him commenting here, unless someone is socking him, which would be an odd sock.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 23, 2025 04:44 PM (i24o9)

I see that name too and had zero idea who that was. I feel stupid.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 23, 2025 04:48 PM (fGmWu)

131 Listening to Sunny Hostin will cause your IQ to drop 40 pts.
Posted by: dantesed at July 23, 2025 04:38 PM (Oy/m2)

Sunny Hostin could be replaced by a stuffed parrot who, occasionally, squawks out 'racism' or 'sexism'. It'd let them cut down on salary for the show also.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 23, 2025 04:42 PM (ExV1e)

The Wheel of Sunny would be even cheaper, with regions labeled "Racist" , "Sexist" and "No comment"

Posted by: Oldcat at July 23, 2025 04:49 PM (8avO+)

132 Colbert is not funny

Kimmel is not funny

Fallon is not funny

Aren't they supposed to be doing comedy?
Posted by: 18-1 at July 23, 2025 04:25 PM (t0Rmr)
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Does it count if I laugh as they're shown the door?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 23, 2025 04:27 PM (tT6L1)

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Is this what is called accidental humor?

Posted by: Decaf at July 23, 2025 04:49 PM (unUNN)

133 Unfunny "comedian" is cancelled because he sucks and he was losing the corporation $$, so the Constitution is being dismantled. Okaaaaay. Sonny Whatsherface has to be one of the the most stupid people to have their face aired over the TV waves. And that's saying something.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 23, 2025 04:49 PM (qBdHI)

134 I like some of Sandler's comedies, his early ones at least, but after a certain point he just started to make cheap dumb crap with his friends so they could go party somewhere interesting and get paid to do it. And they make a little money every time, so why not?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2025 04:49 PM (dfIr7)

135 Give him time to grow. He's basically where Jim Gaffigan was at the start of his career. It's all self-deprecating dad jokes now, but soon he'll yearn to bring Current Year Hitler to heel.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 23, 2025 04:48 PM (4/BuS)
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Well, he's going to have to get over his faith, then.

Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2025 04:50 PM (krQz2)

136 “If the comedians are being attacked, then that means our Constitution is being dismantled."

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I don't see any comedians being attacked, I see a lot of imposters whose time is over.

Posted by: Decaf at July 23, 2025 04:50 PM (unUNN)

137 Pat Sajak's late-night show was pretty funny. But he was up against Carson, so of course it didn't last long.

Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 04:50 PM (77rzZ)

138 Craig Ferguson knew what was needed for a good late show. Attractive women, and shameless flirting from both sides./i]

One thing I noticed he was VERY good at was judging his guest's mental states and playing off of it. Did she want to flirt? Did she want to tell jokes? Did she want to just talk about her show and so on...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 23, 2025 04:50 PM (t0Rmr)

139 damn I can suck for a tenth that much, why him?

Preach!

Posted by: Kamala! at July 23, 2025 04:50 PM (gKWVE)

140 OT Update:

"Maryland Man" Kilmar Abrego is out of jail, and free to move about the country*:

https://archive.is/QFMg6

*in theory, he's got to stay for his trial. In reality, however...

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 23, 2025 04:51 PM (0CU3H)

141 Johnny Carson was funny and he interviewed people who you might be interested in seeing. Sometimes, they were funny, too.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/udY69ykjGOk
Posted by: huerfano at July 23, 2025 04:46 PM (n2swS)
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Super Dave Osborn interviewed by Carson:

https://tinyurl.com/536xncum

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 23, 2025 04:51 PM (tT6L1)

142 134 I like some of Sandler's comedies, his early ones at least, but after a certain point he just started to make cheap dumb crap with his friends so they could go party somewhere interesting and get paid to do it. And they make a little money every time, so why not?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2025

At least Sandler is loyal to his friends, that's an admirable quality. His friend Alan Covert that is in Sandler's movies is a conservative or at least he was.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 23, 2025 04:51 PM (fGmWu)

143 Gaffigan's standup is genuinely funny but I cannot get over the urge to punch him in the face. Repeatedly. Something about him just annoys the crap out of me.

Some comedians are just better heard and not seen.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2025 04:51 PM (dfIr7)

144 I enjoy most Sandler movies--but Little Nicky sucks.
Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2025 04:47 PM (krQz2)

Easy, Liberace.

Posted by: John at July 23, 2025 04:51 PM (lX1hk)

145
Thespians.

Posted by: Frank Barone at July 23, 2025 04:51 PM (IifOV)

146 I like some of Sandler's comedies, his early ones at least, but after a certain point he just started to make cheap dumb crap with his friends so they could go party somewhere interesting and get paid to do it. And they make a little money every time, so why not?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2025 04:49 PM (dfIr7)
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Oh, yeah, the Grown up series? A total miss.

Hotel Transylvania? Maybe the first if you're bored.

Uncut Gems? Sandler is outstanding (and slimy)

Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2025 04:51 PM (krQz2)

147 Kathy Griffin and I could co-host The Late Show and only lose $20 Million a year.

Posted by: Carrot Top, Chairman of the Board at July 23, 2025 04:51 PM (G5+As)

148 I feel like the internet killed "late night" comedy as a thing. With the internet, we no longer consume media primarily through it being segregated by being broadcast at a particular time of day. So there no longer needs to be a time where you can have your non kid-friendly stuff put out there because it's all put out there all the time and you just consume it whenever you feel like.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 23, 2025 04:52 PM (B9Prs)

149 Sunny Hostin is LOL funny in her projection on the right!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 23, 2025 04:52 PM (rtIvC)

150 Adam Carolla was nearly cancelled because he rightly said Covid was a nothing burger for young healthy people.

Where was Sunny then?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 23, 2025 04:52 PM (Vvm2m)

151 Dude, even we don't Angry Cry as much as these Lefty clowns.

Posted by: The Arab Street at July 23, 2025 04:52 PM (7CamO)

152 Sunny Hostin on Colbert cancellation: "If the comedians are being attacked, then that means our Constitution is being dismantled."

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I believe that should be "If the comedians we like are being attacked..." It's open season on comedians who mock the left's sacred cows. And remember the rodeo clown who was fired for wearing an Obama mask?

Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 23, 2025 04:53 PM (OGOaV)

153 The Left is at its core, colonizers. They attempt to capture space in every cultural institution no matter how big or how small, and either expand their holdings or maintain their holdings. Sports, movies, comics, even quilting and pet shows have been invaded and space occupied by leftist colonizers. If they are not rooted out completely, they will bide there time until they can increase the territory they occupy. Once that occupation reaches a certain level (see: American comic books) the territory they occupy is completely destroyed.

Posted by: Open Channel D at July 23, 2025 04:53 PM (FYgDU)

154 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2025 04:51 PM (dfIr7)

Gaffigan's Tim Walz impersonation is gold.

Posted by: Orson at July 23, 2025 04:53 PM (dIske)

155 johnny maga
@_johnnymaga

Jasmine Crockett says Democrats will use “dark money” to try to win back Congress in the midterms:

“There are donors that I’m sure are going to be willing to make sure that they are investing… I’m sure some dark money gone pour innn on da behalf of the American people.”

https://tinyurl.com/mwpfxp75

Posted by: redridinghood at July 23, 2025 04:53 PM (NpAcC)

156 If Colbert isn't safe - none of them are. I think they know that deep inside.

Colbert is a political hire - the network was willing to lose millions to keep his failed show alive. A whole lot of the left know that they, too, are political hires. Colbert is the unfunny canary in the coalmine.

Posted by: 29Victor at July 23, 2025 04:53 PM (j6Ika)

157 147 Kathy Griffin and I could co-host The Late Show and only lose $20 Million a year.
Posted by: Carrot Top, Chairman of the Board at July 23, 2025 04:51 PM (G5+As)

Right?

Where's my payola? I can be an unfunny asshole for so much less.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 23, 2025 04:53 PM (4/BuS)

158 unny Hostin on Colbert cancellation: "If the comedians are being attacked, then that means our Constitution is being dismantled."

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Somebody tell Dave Chappelle.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 23, 2025 04:54 PM (B9Prs)

159 If you ever want to see Sandler do a "serious" acting job, "Uncut Gems" is a pretty good flick.

Posted by: Crusader at July 23, 2025 04:54 PM (TN0g+)

160 I'm a regular on Buck's personal board. I'd say politically it's all over the place. Buck is genuinely a good man. Hard working, humble (he is), gracious, and personable. He even acknowledges me at concerts. :-O You'd never know he's one of the greatest guitarists in rock, until you hear him.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 23, 2025 04:54 PM (KAi1n)

161 148 I feel like the internet killed "late night" comedy as a thing. With the internet, we no longer consume media primarily through it being segregated by being broadcast at a particular time of day. So there no longer needs to be a time where you can have your non kid-friendly stuff put out there because it's all put out there all the time and you just consume it whenever you feel like.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 23, 2025 04:52 PM

This is true and the only downside I can see is we don't have moments we all talk about first thing Monday morning at work, like more cowbell or who killed JR.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 23, 2025 04:54 PM (fGmWu)

162 12 And BTW, the non funny thing isn't wholly political, Letterman was funny and obviously a leftwing scumbag

I assume Ferguson is left of center and he's funny.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 23, 2025 04:28 PM (t0Rmr)

His funniness was inversely proportional to how much he let his partisan leftism into his show. As that grew over time, he became much more bitter and much less funny.

One could say he put the ASS in asymptote.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 23, 2025 04:54 PM (wtvvX)

163 The left's version of political humor is simply pointing at someone they don't like and saying that they suck dick.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 23, 2025 04:47 PM (KbCG3)

They think applause is a substitute for laughter.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at July 23, 2025 04:54 PM (MZ+PY)

164 Look at these liberal talking heads falling to the way side a soon as the USAID money dried up.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 23, 2025 04:29 PM (GBH2X)

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It's just now coming to light how badly the average taxpayer has been scammed by the "smaht" people. Let's see how "smaht" they are now and fin$ a job in a real economy and not the one propped up by the government. You know like it used to be in the days of capitalism.

Posted by: Decaf at July 23, 2025 04:54 PM (unUNN)

165 At least Sandler is loyal to his friends, that's an admirable quality. His friend Alan Covert that is in Sandler's movies is a conservative or at least he was.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 23, 2025 04:51 PM (fGmWu)
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He gave his 3 college roommates spots in almost every movie he did until Peter Dante went off the deep end. After that you don't see Dante in Sandler's films. Covert is one of them, who's definitely had more screen time. (Although Dante got quite a big as Guy in Waterboy).

Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2025 04:54 PM (krQz2)

166 148 I feel like the internet killed "late night" comedy as a thing. With the internet, we no longer consume media primarily through it being segregated by being broadcast at a particular time of day. So there no longer needs to be a time where you can have your non kid-friendly stuff put out there because it's all put out there all the time and you just consume it whenever you feel like.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 23, 2025 04:52 PM (B9Prs)

Another way the internet killed late night comedy occurred during Covid.

Holy fuck, watching these assholes do their shows over Zoom and try to be funny without the bells is whistles was, in a way, hilarious.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 23, 2025 04:54 PM (KbCG3)

167 Referring to Letterman, of course.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 23, 2025 04:54 PM (wtvvX)

168 "90% of the attraction of the left is the promise made to simpletons and failures that if they believe hard enough in the cult, all of the accomplishments of higher-ranking cult members are their own accomplishments."


Can't really add much to that.

Posted by: eleven at July 23, 2025 04:55 PM (fV+MH)

169 114 Johnny Carson was funny and he interviewed people who you might be interested in seeing. Sometimes, they were funny, too.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/udY69ykjGOk
Posted by: huerfano at July 23, 2025 04:46 PM (n2swS)

Carson makes a great point in the clip of how he never wanted to use the show as a personal soapbox, because that could give him the power to sway people.

On that note, I never understood that canard of news figures not voting to give the appearance of objectivity, while using their work to sway votes. Heck, I'd gladly give up the right to vote for the ability to sway 100,000 LIVs to my point of view.

You know that's what those self-important media figures were trying to do.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 23, 2025 04:55 PM (0CU3H)

170 Jon Stewart just shot him self in the foot with his tirade against CBS, so I won’t be surprised if they axe him next. But Kimmel is the one I’m waiting to see get defenestrated.

Posted by: RebeccaH at July 23, 2025 04:55 PM (nnkjY)

171 “There are donors that I’m sure are going to be willing to make sure that they are investing… I’m sure some dark money gone pour innn on da behalf of the American people.”

https://tinyurl.com/mwpfxp75
Posted by: redridinghood at July 23, 2025 04:53 PM (NpAcC)
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Who said the age of soaring rhetoric was over?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 23, 2025 04:55 PM (tT6L1)

172 Most people think it means educated, smart, and possessing expertise, but virtually all leftist intellectuals today are none of those. The word should be used as an insult if we are accurately describing the left.
Posted by: DPICM at July 23, 2025 04:44 PM (M2VUX)

I don't know that 'intellectual' ever seriously meant actual accomplished people. And if it did it sure didn't last long, as they would be known for what they did. It always seems to reduce to people jotting down what clever things they say over drinks.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 23, 2025 04:55 PM (8avO+)

173 johnny maga
@_johnnymaga

Jasmine Crockett says Democrats will use “dark money” to try to win back Congress in the midterms:

“There are donors that I’m sure are going to be willing to make sure that they are investing… I’m sure some dark money gone pour innn on da behalf of the American people.”

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In one minute they're claiming Trump is literally Hitler and that we're drowing in fascism, and the next minute they're bragging in advance of criminal acts they support.

Posted by: Crusader at July 23, 2025 04:56 PM (TN0g+)

174 "Colbert is the unfunny canary in the coalmine.
Posted by: 29Victor"


Perfect.

Posted by: eleven at July 23, 2025 04:56 PM (fV+MH)

175
The younger comics that took over for the giants like Carson,Leno,Griffin, etc (except Letterman) fail to see what made the late night shows work. The show as 25% Host, and 75% guests. These hedonistic fools now days have the shows rigged 85% about the host and 15% about how the host reacts to the guests.

Posted by: Frank Barone at July 23, 2025 04:56 PM (IifOV)

176 I was just listening to Molly's podcast, and she gave credit to Ace about the rodeo clown point.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 23, 2025 04:56 PM (od0dV)

177 Holy fuck, watching these assholes do their shows over Zoom and try to be funny without the bells is whistles was, in a way, hilarious.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 23, 2025 04:54 PM (KbCG3)

Sort of like when people edit out the laugh track from sitcoms like Friends and the entire thing stops being funny and just sounds bizzare.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 23, 2025 04:56 PM (B9Prs)

178 >>>I think many people even from that era of music forget how legitimately *good* Blue Oyster Cult was during their prime. I saw them live twice, 10 years apart.

i saw them four years ago. they're still great.

Posted by: ace at July 23, 2025 04:56 PM (KRtlO)

179 I vote for Ferguson's gay robot sidekick to take over hosting one of the late night shows.

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at July 23, 2025 04:56 PM (kTd/k)

180 Jasmine Crockett says Democrats will use “dark money” to try to win back Congress in the midterms:

“There are donors that I’m sure are going to be willing to make sure that they are investing… I’m sure some dark money gone pour innn on da behalf of the American people.”

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Dark money is their only hope, since their USAID laundered $ lifeline well has done gone dry.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 23, 2025 04:56 PM (qBdHI)

181
I'm listening to the Stewart tirade to see if he says anything about the $40mil loss. I'll probably be willowed before I find out.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 23, 2025 04:57 PM (HL/Ld)

182 Face it. "Wokism" is a small dominant niche. The simple fact of the matter is that there are relatively few visible and influential leaders of all the nonsense. So, it's felt significantly when one of them disappears from the stage. Posted by: Orson

It's captured almost every university. So, no, that's bullshit.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 23, 2025 04:57 PM (mlg/3)

183 I assume Ferguson is left of center and he's funny.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 23, 2025 04:28 PM (t0Rmr)

On a lot of social issues almost certainly. He always struck me as libertarianish. But he seems to unironically love America. If his recent standup is any indication, he despises wokedom.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 23, 2025 04:57 PM (4/BuS)

184 I'm listening to the Stewart tirade to see if he says anything about the $40mil loss. I'll probably be willowed before I find out.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 23, 2025 04:57 PM (HL/Ld)
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I haven't heard one lib mention that other that "the supposed reason".

Because again, they're psychic.

Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2025 04:58 PM (krQz2)

185 177 Holy fuck, watching these assholes do their shows over Zoom and try to be funny without the bells is whistles was, in a way, hilarious.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 23, 2025 04:54 PM (KbCG3)

Sort of like when people edit out the laugh track from sitcoms like Friends and the entire thing stops being funny and just sounds bizzare.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 23, 2025 04:56 PM (B9Prs)

Basically, yes.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 23, 2025 04:58 PM (KbCG3)

186 here are donors that I’m sure are going to be willing to make sure

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wut ? you idiot, that money was all US AID and other NGO/NFP crap

Posted by: runner at July 23, 2025 04:58 PM (g47mK)

187 I'm sorry but is it really a coincidence that CBS can no longer afford to "lose" 40 million a year on Colbert and the demise of USAID?

I'm just saying.

Posted by: Drunken Yoda at July 23, 2025 04:58 PM (T/UyB)

188 The younger comics that took over for the giants like Carson,Leno,Griffin, etc (except Letterman) fail to see what made the late night shows work. The show as 25% Host, and 75% guests. These hedonistic fools now days have the shows rigged 85% about the host and 15% about how the host reacts to the guests.
Posted by: Frank Barone at July 23, 2025 04:56 PM (IifOV)
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Carson's era was much less tolerant of failure. Think of the shows that were canceled simply because they couldn't dent the Tonight Show but were much, much better than anything on today.

I'm wondering how many grants went to the networks and allowed them to prop up this dreck.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 23, 2025 04:59 PM (ZOv7s)

189 The show is simply not funny. It seems to specialize in Boomer Cringe.
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Why do people call it that? I don't find him - or others like him - funny at all. And it's a few years since I turned 29. Actually, I'm on Medicare.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 23, 2025 04:59 PM (od0dV)

190 Saw on X: Obama judge denied DOJ's motion to unseal Epstein grand jury transcripts.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at July 23, 2025 04:59 PM (jYRYu)

191 I pronounce his name Coal-Burt.

Him pronouncing it Co-Bare is just another piece of his anti-American puzzle.
Posted by: haffhowershower at July 23, 2025 04:32 PM (4d1jT)

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I always thought he pronounced it that way because he is related to Claudette.

Posted by: Decaf at July 23, 2025 04:59 PM (unUNN)

192 I'm listening to the Stewart tirade to see if he says anything about the $40mil loss.
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Al Stewart > Jon Stewart

Posted by: Crusader at July 23, 2025 04:59 PM (TN0g+)

193 There's a guy named Derek Lipp who does short skits with family members. Generally does his stuff from a Ring doorbell perspective. A bit hit or miss, but even his misses are funnier than anything Colbert puts out.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 23, 2025 04:59 PM (tT6L1)

194 This is true and the only downside I can see is we don't have moments we all talk about first thing Monday morning at work, like more cowbell or who killed JR.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 23, 2025 04:54 PM (fGmWu)

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It was Maggie Simpson, right?

Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 23, 2025 04:59 PM (OGOaV)

195
One of the funniest Carson bits, with Jack Webb in character as Joe Friday. The "Copper Clapper Caper":
https://tinyurl.com/yame7ce8

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 23, 2025 04:59 PM (w6EFb)

196 I suspect the Hollywood Blacklist is how come Allan Covert didn't get more roles.
Covert is not a natural comic lead, but there are few of those anyway (Jim Carrey, Robin Williams, Sandler himself, etc). He is (or was) decent looking, can read lines well, is an above-average straight man, is likeable.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 23, 2025 04:59 PM (gKWVE)

197 Happy Gilmore was always a closet commie. Fuck his new remake.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 23, 2025 04:59 PM (/U5Yz)

198 Sort of like when people edit out the laugh track from sitcoms like Friends and the entire thing stops being funny and just sounds bizzare.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 23, 2025 04:56 PM (B9Prs)

Basically, yes.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 23, 2025 04:58 PM (KbCG3)
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I never thought Seinfeld was funny.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 23, 2025 04:59 PM (ZOv7s)

199 a lot of revenue they were receiving were "incentives" for promoting DEI policies and shows; now it's all el gono

Posted by: runner at July 23, 2025 05:00 PM (g47mK)

200 “There are donors that I’m sure are going to be willing to make sure that they are investing… I’m sure some dark money gone pour innn on da behalf of the American people.”

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Dark money is their only hope, since their USAID laundered $ lifeline well has done gone dry.
Posted by: Lady in Black at July 23, 2025 04:56 PM (qBdHI)
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Back when the Kochs used to donate to the right, sometimes, "dark money" was evil and even kinda-sorta cheating.

But these are people who didn't bat an eye when the Kochs gave to Kamala because they really, really don't like Trump.

Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2025 05:00 PM (krQz2)

201 I have acquaintances here who really have lost their minds. Major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder and narcissistic behavior are all hallmarks. They really have driven themselves insane.

I have a very good friend, a boy I have loved since I was 17, who is now almost suicidal. It is heartbreaking. And he cannot understand why I am happy.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 23, 2025 05:00 PM (W2Pud)

202 >>“If the comedians are being attacked, then that means our Constitution is being dismantled."

Now I feel bad about arguing with ace.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 23, 2025 05:00 PM (viF8m)

203 Al Stewart > Jon Stewart
Posted by: Crusader at July 23, 2025 04:59 PM (TN0g+)
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Ace should use "Roads to Moscow" as a forgotten mystery click.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 23, 2025 05:01 PM (ZOv7s)

204 Kochs gave to Kamala ?!!!

Posted by: runner at July 23, 2025 05:01 PM (g47mK)

205 Ulta Beauty just Bud Lighted themselves.

Then again, men pretending to be women need about $1K makeup/day to try to even theoretically look like a presentable in public person, vs the butt ugly natural they would be...so I guess this collab made more sense...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 23, 2025 05:01 PM (tOcjL)

206 There's a guy who does fart pranks on YouTube. He's funnier than any of these late night stars.

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at July 23, 2025 05:01 PM (kTd/k)

207 "Sort of like when people edit out the laugh track from sitcoms like Friends and the entire thing stops being funny and just sounds bizzare.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously "

Or the big grande finale of E.T. with the heart-string grabbing music removed.

It's just crickets.

Posted by: eleven at July 23, 2025 05:02 PM (fV+MH)

208 Back when the Kochs used to donate to the right, sometimes, "dark money" was evil and even kinda-sorta cheating.

But these are people who didn't bat an eye when the Kochs gave to Kamala because they really, really don't like Trump.
Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2025 05:00 PM (krQz2)
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The left has no actual principles, just a hunger for power at any price. "When they are done with their tools, they drop them." JRR Tolkien

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 23, 2025 05:02 PM (ZOv7s)

209 I never thought Seinfeld was funny.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 23, 2025 04:59 PM (ZOv7s)
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I've seen him 3 times. I get a face-ache from laughing.

Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2025 05:02 PM (krQz2)

210 I never thought Seinfeld was funny.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

That's a brave admission to make here.

Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 05:02 PM (77rzZ)

211 "There's a guy who does fart pranks on YouTube. He's funnier than any of these late night stars.
Posted by: Still lurking up north"


I eagerly await OW, My Balls.

Posted by: eleven at July 23, 2025 05:03 PM (fV+MH)

212 He got a bunch of other unfunny late-night TV clowns to sit in the audience and pretend to cheer for them, including Anderson Cooper.

And including, sadly, Adam Sandler. I don't know why Sandler is there. Maybe they're personal friends.

So, every one of the talk show types, save Gutfeld, who wasn't there, is on board with this. I thought diversity was our strength.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 23, 2025 04:32 PM (Riz8t)

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Is this how he intends to boost his ratings so they reverse his firing by next May? He will have a bunch of celebrities in the audience every night so that people will tune in just to see who they are. I don't think Hollywood has that many celebrities.

Posted by: Decaf at July 23, 2025 05:03 PM (unUNN)

213 Why does the left ruin everything they touch? I mean statistically it not even possible to be this wrong about everything all the time. Random guessing has a better track record.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 23, 2025 04:48 PM (0kwZe)

Because there is not one left, but many and they contend with each other. Even at peak woke you had the trannies fighting feminists tooth an nail. All they want is power, so the purpose of the organization they take over naturally atrophies and fails.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 23, 2025 05:03 PM (8avO+)

214 I never thought Seinfeld was funny.
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I was a "late adopter" to Seinfeld, but it certainly had its moments. I liked the episode where they were seeing how far below "E" they could drive, the one about the soup Nazis, and the one about the cabin (and the letters found there) was epic! Elaine was easy on the eyes then, and I had no idea she was politically stupid.

Posted by: Crusader at July 23, 2025 05:03 PM (TN0g+)

215 Kochs gave to Kamala ?!!!
Posted by: runner at July 23, 2025 05:01 PM (g47mK)
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They were never libertarian, they just wanted cheap, imported slave labor.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 23, 2025 05:04 PM (ZOv7s)

216 179 I vote for Ferguson's gay robot sidekick to take over hosting one of the late night shows.
Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at July 23, 2025 04:56 PM (kTd/k)

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I always loved the on-going feud between Geoff (the robot) and Kristen Bell.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 23, 2025 05:04 PM (OGOaV)

217
I'm listening to the Stewart tirade to see if he says anything about the $40mil loss. I'll probably be willowed before I find out.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

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He did it -- without naming the amount. He made a big desperate face as he said they were canceling Stephen's show "for purely financial reasons" without trying to save a top-rated show.

I thought Greg Gutfeld always got the top ratings in that slot, but whatevs, what bank gives you money because you have a lousy business plan but your friends like you?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 23, 2025 05:04 PM (HL/Ld)

218 I thought "Gutfeld" was spelled "Gutfield" until a few hours ago because I'm retarded.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 23, 2025 05:04 PM (gKWVE)

219 How does SNL survive?

They haven't been funny since the 80s.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 23, 2025 04:32 PM (17l0u)

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I expect they also are not long for this world.

Posted by: Decaf at July 23, 2025 05:04 PM (unUNN)

220 Colbert is just Jake Tapper without the sparkling wit.

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at July 23, 2025 05:04 PM (kTd/k)

221 That's a brave admission to make here.

Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 05:02 PM (77rzZ)
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We just write it off.

Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2025 05:05 PM (krQz2)

222 Tesla reports sales miss as auto revenue drops for second straight quarter

True comedy.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 23, 2025 05:05 PM (/U5Yz)

223 $100 says the racist harridans on The View are next. They are sapping the channel of oats and feed one trough at a time.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 23, 2025 05:05 PM (90TCz)

224 6. The left is made up overwhelmingly of marginal and unaccomplished people who know that they are failures but reassure themselves that they're Secret Winners because they belong to a culture which features successful people.
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Many of them are actual open winners. It's a point David Brooks made recently in one of his occasional lapses into insight, that his class seems very good at ensuring that, come what may, they will come out on top.

That may be starting to change, but even if it is, it's more "the end of the beginning" than "the beginning of the end".

Posted by: Eeyore at July 23, 2025 05:06 PM (od0dV)

225 And:

7. They are all fucked in the head.

Posted by: Clark Griswold at July 23, 2025 05:06 PM (ufFY8)

226
I thought Greg Gutfeld always got the top ratings in that slot, but whatevs, what bank gives you money because you have a lousy business plan but your friends like you?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 23, 2025 05:04 PM (HL/Ld)

Gutfeld isn't considered "late" night because he's on at 10 EST

Posted by: It's me donna at July 23, 2025 05:06 PM (VE6XX)

227 That's a brave admission to make here.
Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 05:02 PM (77rzZ)
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The show always struck me as "meh." "Cheers" was great, "Frasier" was also good. The 90s was when I began giving up on TV.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 23, 2025 05:06 PM (ZOv7s)

228 Ace, you are truly en fuego today. Nobody does it better. xx

Posted by: Peaches at July 23, 2025 05:06 PM (14URa)

229 114 Johnny Carson was funny and he interviewed people who you might be interested in seeing. Sometimes, they were funny, too.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/udY69ykjGOk
Posted by: huerfano at July 23, 2025 04:46 PM (n2swS)

Great clip.

Even if they weren't that interesting, Johnny could almost always make them interesting - even funny.

Posted by: 29Victor at July 23, 2025 05:06 PM (j6Ika)

230 118 That's interesting, Ace, because a few days ago in James Lileks morning Bleat post he mentioned that Buck had called him.
Posted by: beckster

Lileks got canned from the Strib, didn't he?
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He lost his weekly column a year ago and was assigned random articles. (big slap in the face to him.) In the meantime, the Strib hired quite a few new regular columnists while offering 65+ year old employees a buyout, which Lileks took. So yeah, pretty much canned.

Posted by: beckster at July 23, 2025 05:06 PM (NLtte)

231 Musk f’d up. Conservatives were actually taking a second look at Teslas. He could have moved that ball in the right direction. The minute he started acting like a petulant 5 year old it ended.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 23, 2025 05:06 PM (90TCz)

232 Al Stewart > Jon Stewart
Posted by: Crusader at July 23, 2025 04:59 PM (TN0g+)
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Ace should use "Roads to Moscow" as a forgotten mystery click.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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Oh, I'm so glad you went there! Its not for everyone, but I shared an Al Stewart greatest hits album with a friend at work one day and he came back the next day to give me a review. I expected to hear about "Year of the Cat" or one of the more "pop" offerings but instead the first words out of his mouth were "Roads to Moscow was seriously intense."

Posted by: Crusader at July 23, 2025 05:07 PM (TN0g+)

233 I have acquaintances here who really have lost their minds. Major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder and narcissistic behavior are all hallmarks. They really have driven themselves insane.

I have a very good friend, a boy I have loved since I was 17, who is now almost suicidal. It is heartbreaking. And he cannot understand why I am happy.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 23, 2025 05:00 PM


My brother was also hysterical that Trump was taking away his medicaid and giving that money to elon musk and other billionaires. He literally won't listen when I tell him the only people losing medicaid are illegals.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 23, 2025 05:07 PM (e5NfL)

234
They said "If you don't like leftist entertainment, start your own network!"

Okay. Ellison merges Skydance with Paramount and now we're kind of starting our own network. Thanks for the advice!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 23, 2025 05:07 PM (HL/Ld)

235 Kochs gave to Kamala ?!!!
Posted by: runner at July 23, 2025 05:01 PM (g47mK)
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Yeah, it turns out they're only bad when they don't give money in the right direction.

IIRC, they were core funders of the Beyonce concertKamala rally, for instance.

Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2025 05:07 PM (krQz2)

236 They have no personal victories; for them, another left-winger landing a prestigious late-night talk show host gig is really their own victory. And therefore, one of their cultural avatars losing feels like a personal loss, too.

This, too, is the story of Palestinians.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 23, 2025 05:08 PM (a+4eV)

237 They said "If you don't like leftist entertainment, start your own network!"

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 23, 2025 05:07 PM (HL/Ld)
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That's what they said about Twitter.

Posted by: Parler at July 23, 2025 05:08 PM (krQz2)

238 235 Kochs gave to Kamala ?!!!
Posted by: runner at July 23, 2025 05:01 PM (g47mK)

I believe there is only one Koch left

Posted by: It's me donna at July 23, 2025 05:08 PM (VE6XX)

239 I see the left is melting down over Nintendo casting a woman to play the female character of Zelda.

Oh good. I might actually consider seeing it, then.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 23, 2025 05:08 PM (a+4eV)

240 Sack up?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 23, 2025 05:08 PM (63Dwl)

241
That's what they said about Twitter.
Posted by: Parler

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New billionaires in town. Moose out front should have told you.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 23, 2025 05:09 PM (HL/Ld)

242 That's a brave admission to make here.
Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 05:02 PM (77rzZ)
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The show always struck me as "meh." "Cheers" was great, "Frasier" was also good. The 90s was when I began giving up on TV.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 23, 2025 05:06 PM (ZOv7s)
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The first few seasons of Seinfeld really are not very good. It doesn't hit its stride until about season 4 or 5. The last couple of seasons are pretty entertaining and Seinfeld made the conscious decision to go out on a high note even though people wanted him to keep making the show. 9 seasons is a long time in television world.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 23, 2025 05:09 PM (7fElN)

243 OT:

The story about the hotline that Biden set up for unaccompanied minors to relay any issues they had with the fosters they were placed with is pretty horrifying. They just ignored them when they called the hotline.

These people should all be shot.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 23, 2025 05:09 PM (zZu0s)

244 "ideas so good they're mandatory"

Bing and get your swag

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 23, 2025 05:09 PM (/lPRQ)

245
Carson was at his funniest when the jokes bombed. Doc Severinsen played Taps one time, and that had me rolling in the floor.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 23, 2025 05:09 PM (w6EFb)

246 Kimmel used to be funny, he sold out to the message.
Posted by: Inogame at July 23, 2025 04:35 PM (53oGX)

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He was never funny unless arrogance is now considered a comedic asset in which case they are all utterly hilarious.

Posted by: Decaf at July 23, 2025 05:09 PM (unUNN)

247 The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed President Donald Trump to fire members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, a federal agency set up by Congress to be independent of political pressures. The justices, granting an emergency request filed by the Trump administration, blocked a Maryland-based federal judge’s ruling that reinstated Mary Boyle, Alexander Hoehn-Saric and Richard Trumka Jr., all of whom had been appointed by then-President Joe Biden. Without the three members in place, the five-member commission would for now lack the necessary quorum to fulfill its obligation to protect consumers from defective products.

Posted by: SMOD at July 23, 2025 05:10 PM (RHGPo)

248 My brother was also hysterical that Trump was taking away his medicaid and giving that money to elon musk and other billionaires. He literally won't listen when I tell him the only people losing medicaid are illegals.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 23, 2025 05:07 PM (e5NfL)

This is why nothing important happens in election years...you have to let the insane realize nothing actually came to pass that the media swore would...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 23, 2025 05:10 PM (tOcjL)

249 One Koch over the line sweet jesus...

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 23, 2025 05:10 PM (zZu0s)

250
Sack up?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

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I guess that's what the oldsters are calling it nowadays. What "it" is I have no idea, but it's an oldster term for sure, older than me and I'm 29.

I listened to a substantial amount of his rant but I didn't get to "sack up." I, too, was wondering.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 23, 2025 05:10 PM (HL/Ld)

251 The show always struck me as "meh."

That's how I always felt about Friends.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 23, 2025 05:10 PM (4/BuS)

252 To add to Ace's list, I think most of the Left are really bad at taking criticism.

This is partly manufactured through their victim mentality. No xxx shaming. No criticism of other Lefties because they are all victims. Victims of bad parents, bad society, epigenetic trauma from slavery, capitalism, western beauty standards, racism, male gaze,.....

Partly it is strategic -- they win over converts by telling them they will never be criticized for their 300 lb, greasy, unfunny, pincushion faces.

Combined, any criticism has to be immediately attacked as somehow unfair or unjust.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 23, 2025 05:11 PM (S7tsZ)

253 Many of them are actual open winners. It's a point David Brooks made recently in one of his occasional lapses into insight, that his class seems very good at ensuring that, come what may, they will come out on top.

That may be starting to change, but even if it is, it's more "the end of the beginning" than "the beginning of the end".
Posted by: Eeyore at July 23, 2025 05:06 PM (od0dV)

David Brooks isn't part of any class.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 23, 2025 05:11 PM (8avO+)

254 That's a shame.

Posted by: Freely flowing Bulg at July 23, 2025 05:11 PM (P0m9n)

255 Another Trump win on the emergency SCOTUS docket.

Another one saying the Chief Executive is the Chief Executive of the Executive Branch and can fire any Executive Branch employee.
This time, Dems on the Consumer Products Safety Commission

The dumb MFer clown judges are dumb AF.
They still 1) think they are running this country and 2) think that the SCOTUS is not in charge of them and 3) meant what the said when they, in effect, said they don't think Humphrey's Executor is good law.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 23, 2025 05:11 PM (VMT/Y)

256 Look at the left’s constituency. Then look at the issues they support. It’s just not an agenda a majority of Americans support. Trump is largely popular because he’s a fighter. But he’s also popular because he’s on the right side with a majority of the voters. People wouldn’t be so bemused by Trump or find him endearing if he was out there fighting for illegal immigrants, cheering the complete lawlessness and unconstitutionality of the courts or being a weakling on the world stage.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 23, 2025 05:11 PM (90TCz)

257 By the way, Johnny Carson's interview with Robyn Hilton on The Tonight Show is pretty awesome.

Posted by: Crusader at July 23, 2025 05:11 PM (TN0g+)

258 My brother was also hysterical that Trump was taking away his medicaid and giving that money to elon musk and other billionaires. He literally won't listen when I tell him the only people losing medicaid are illegals.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 23, 2025 05:07 PM (e5NfL)
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Not listening and not noticing are important skills for a Dem voter.

Also to let serious bodily harm inflicted maliciously by somebody on the left fly by you while they are trying to convince you that you should care about something feeling threatened, is a characteristic skill as well.

Posted by: Axeman at July 23, 2025 05:12 PM (krQz2)

259 250
Sack up?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

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I guess that's what the oldsters are calling it nowadays. What "it" is I have no idea, but it's an oldster term for sure, older than me and I'm 29.

I listened to a substantial amount of his rant but I didn't get to "sack up." I, too, was wondering.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 23, 2025 05:10 PM (HL/Ld

Nut up.
Same thing/meaning.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 23, 2025 05:12 PM (4/BuS)

260 I was a "late adopter" to Seinfeld, but it certainly had its moments. I liked the episode where they were seeing how far below "E" they could drive, the one about the soup Nazis, and the one about the cabin (and the letters found there) was epic! Elaine was easy on the eyes then, and I had no idea she was politically stupid.
Posted by: Crusader at July 23, 2025 05:03 PM (TN0g+)

Well, Julia Louis-Dreyfus is the daughter of a billionaire, so one could ignore certain foibles, if one were so inclined.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 23, 2025 05:12 PM (0CU3H)

261 It means grow some bawls.

Posted by: eleven at July 23, 2025 05:12 PM (fV+MH)

262
Another good one, Jack Webb and Harry Morgan in character on a Jack Benny special in '74:

https://tinyurl.com/26vq86rv

Jack Benny was another great. Comparing any of the current "comedians" to Jack Benny and those of that class is just, I can't even describe it. There is no comparison.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 23, 2025 05:13 PM (w6EFb)

263
OT:

The story about the hotline that Biden set up for unaccompanied minors to relay any issues they had with the fosters they were placed with is pretty horrifying. They just ignored them when they called the hotline.

These people should all be shot.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone

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Always the way with their brilliant ideas. Remember when Obama was going to set up some open forum on the White House website where you could, you know, communicate directly with the president, and he'd personally read your messages? It was in the Blueprint For America, I kid you not.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 23, 2025 05:13 PM (HL/Ld)

264 >>I guess that's what the oldsters are calling it nowadays. What "it" is I have no idea, but it's an oldster term for sure, older than me and I'm 29.

It means grow a pair. It's been around for a very long time. Probably not used in polite audiences all that often.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 23, 2025 05:14 PM (viF8m)

265 245 Yeah, Carson could play off a bombed joke like nobody else.

Posted by: Bulg at July 23, 2025 05:14 PM (77rzZ)

266 Always the way with their brilliant ideas.
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Is anyone playing "midnight basketball" in Little Rock? Or Memphis? Or Chicago?

Posted by: Crusader at July 23, 2025 05:14 PM (TN0g+)

267 How does SNL survive?

They haven't been funny since the 80s.

I fixed that comment for you.

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at July 23, 2025 05:14 PM (89Sog)

268 I think this short video is relevant here, it's why we can't even talk to Woke people.

https://is.gd/8Zuwe2

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 23, 2025 05:14 PM (PiwSw)

269 I guess that's what the oldsters are calling it nowadays. What "it" is I have no idea, but it's an oldster term for sure, older than me and I'm 29.

I listened to a substantial amount of his rant but I didn't get to "sack up." I, too, was wondering.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 23, 2025 05:10 PM (HL/Ld

Nut up.
Same thing/meaning.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 23, 2025 05:12 PM (4/BuS)

Well, with a nic like that you certainly would know about those sorts of things...

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 23, 2025 05:15 PM (0CU3H)

270 Tulsi just keeps drip, dripping on Obama and his coup team. It’s actually entertaining to watch the networks trying not to cover it. There’s a lot of material on the documents being released. Maybe Jake Tapper can call them fake, and then write another book next year on how he was totes on board with finding out the truth.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 23, 2025 05:15 PM (90TCz)

271 The story about the hotline that Biden set up for unaccompanied minors to relay any issues they had with the fosters they were placed with is pretty horrifying. They just ignored them when they called the hotline.

These people should all be shot.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone

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They were not ignored, they were quietly transferred to "The Factory".

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 23, 2025 05:15 PM (/lPRQ)

272 261 It means grow some bawls.
Posted by: eleven at July 23, 2025 05:12 PM (fV+MH)

No thanks. Don't need 'em. When I need a couple, I borrow them from DH.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 23, 2025 05:16 PM (1Gsou)

273 I think this short video is relevant here, it's why we can't even talk to Woke people.

https://is.gd/8Zuwe2

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I saw that earlier today and its *brilliant*, and accurate. Ace should do a post about it.

Posted by: Crusader at July 23, 2025 05:17 PM (TN0g+)

274 Trump is the ONLY person who could have done this: bring down Hollywood, DC, AND the media. Trump is the only person who could take down the Obama cabal. His entire life prepared him for this moment in time.
It is amazing to watch and see the people God chooses to raises up for “such a time as this”
Posted by: Jmel at July 23, 2025 04:39 PM (bVhJi)

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When he was elected the first time I said God works in mysterious ways and that like Nineveh people will reform. The second admin is like what happened to Sodom and Gomorrah.

Posted by: Decaf at July 23, 2025 05:17 PM (unUNN)

275 Nood.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 23, 2025 05:17 PM (PiwSw)

276 Turkey is up to something and it ain't good.

Posted by: runner at July 23, 2025 05:18 PM (g47mK)

277 The show always struck me as "meh."

That's how I always felt about Friends.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

Seinfeld was OK background noise.
Friends was 'turn the channel to public access' bad

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 23, 2025 05:18 PM (/lPRQ)

278
And there was the time Doris Day's nipples showed up on Carson:

https://tinyurl.com/ytdmctze

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 23, 2025 05:18 PM (w6EFb)

279 224 6. The left is made up overwhelmingly of marginal and unaccomplished people who know that they are failures but reassure themselves that they're Secret Winners because they belong to a culture which features successful people.
______
Many of them are actual open winners.

Posted by: Eeyore

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I think a lot of this has to do with complete lack of morals. They will do anything to win, especially compromise themselves.

This is correlated to Leftism -- they adopt an ideology that makes them feel like winners instead of sticking to principles, morals, duty, honor,... which are *internal* signifiers of success often do not pay as well.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 23, 2025 05:21 PM (S7tsZ)

280 Is anyone playing "midnight basketball" in Little Rock? Or Memphis? Or Chicago?
Posted by: Crusader

"midnight basketball" ?
Ah,, the 'crack, ho, and party goat swap meet and needle exchange'.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 23, 2025 05:22 PM (/lPRQ)

281 Remember, there are several current rulings by federal judges that the government NOT giving lefties money is a violation of the Constitution.

So yeah, a corporation refusing to continue giving a leftie money is a grave Constitutional Crisis.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 23, 2025 05:26 PM (VMT/Y)

282 Long time lurker. Never thought I would comment, but here goes. I listened to Ace's podcast with Buck Charms. He is the most underrated guitarist of all time. Oh and Ace of Spades is the best blog of all time.

Posted by: Obama is a traitor at July 23, 2025 05:30 PM (k+Wra)

283 Dharma

Posted by: Obama is a traitor at July 23, 2025 05:31 PM (k+Wra)

284 You know what's really funny?
At the end of that Colbert video it says: "Watch again"
ha ha

Posted by: wth at July 23, 2025 05:31 PM (UjdFS)

285 of all the people to get upset over....Stephen Cobert?

I mean, he's a partisan hack. And he doesn't seem like an especially nice person. he comes across as very petty.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 23, 2025 07:06 PM (D1vbu)

286 Cobert was like "the modern audience" lie of marvel movies - nobody wants this. If they wanted it, they would watch it.

Cobert exudes low class behavior.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 23, 2025 07:07 PM (D1vbu)

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