"Keep Colbert" Protest Shows How Few Fans the Uncomfortably Uncharismatic Unfunnyman Actually Has, Even in a Left-Wing City of Nine Million

The Stephen Colbert Fan Club could fit inside Brian Stelter's pants.

Along with Brian Stelter, I mean.

What a joke.
A Big Apple rally in support of on-his-way-out "Late Show" host Stephen Colbert drew fewer than two dozen people Sunday -- with even the NYPD cops on scene quickly calling it a day since most of the demonstrators left after just a few minutes.
Organizers said the "We're With Colbert" gathering outside the CBS Broadcast Center on Manhattan's West Side said it was meant to be part of a nationwide call for "integrity."

LOL.

"Our country is not perfect, never has been," said the event's organizer, who would only identify himself as Matt and said his nickname is "Slim."
"But we've always had the First Amendment, and now Mango Mussolini is trying to take that from us," he said, referring to a derogatory nickname for President Trump.
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"This is a First Amendment attack," a protester who refused to give her name said of the closing-down of the show. "We can't stand for that."

Why would lefties refuse to give their names? They face no Right Wing Cancellation Mobs.

I've got a thought: Maybe because they're paid "protesters."

The last real late night host Jay Leno criticized Colbert for alienating half the country and destroying late night talk shows.

Former late-night comedy giant Jay Leno thinks today's TV hosts are fools for falling back on one-sided political humor -- explaining they're isolating half their audience with the endless partisan jabs.
"Why shoot for just half an audience all the time? You know, why not try to get the whole?" Leno, 75, told Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation CEO David Trulio during a recent interview.
"I don't understand why you would alienate one particular group, you know, or just don't do it at all," the former "Tonight Show" host said. "I'm not saying you have to throw your support or whatever, but just do what's funny."
Leno said such conflicts are exactly why he pointedly avoided partisan political humor during his 22 years as the king of late night -- with one analysis cited by Trulio showing he made fun of both sides of the aisle in equal measure throughout his career.
"Funny is funny," Leno said. "It's funny when someone who's not ... when you make fun of their side, and they laugh at it, you know, that's kind of what I do."
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"I like to think that people come to a comedy show to kind of get away from the things, you know, the pressures of life, whatever it might be," Leno said. "And I love political humor, don't get me wrong, but it's just what happens when people wind up cozying too much to one side or the other.
"You have to be content with half the audience because you have [to] give your opinion."

When NBC demanded cuts at the Tonight Show, due to its falling ratings, Jay Leno famously gave up $10 million of his own salary to keep the entire staff employed.

So far I haven't heard Stephen Colbert offering to take the Jay Leno Challenge.

We've talked about this already, but: the real story is that the entire model of broadcast television is collapsing.

[T]he strongest evidence that Paramount's sacking of Colbert was definitely but not solely a gift to Trump comes, ironically, from Colbert's sharpest supporter, his former boss at The Daily Show Jon Stewart. On his podcast--keep that gig, Jon--the once-a-week TV host mused about the network on which he toils, Comedy Central. "Without 'The Daily Show,' Comedy Central's kind of like Muzak at this point ... I think we're the only sort of life that exists on a current basis, other than 'South Park.'"
If "late night" were all that was at risk, there would be more than two original programs on an entire television network, one of which was delayed until streaming rights were granted.

That's a reference to the South Park geeks holding out on a deal until Paramount allowed them to sell the show to other streamers, which is where the real money is.

And it's where the relevance is. I don't watch any broadcast TV until/unless it goes on to streaming. South Park being stuck on Comedy Central and Paramount's little-watched streaming service will result in the show being entirely forgotten.

I've already forgotten it. I only remember it when they advertise some big special episode like the Kathleen Kennedy one.

The financial turbulence in Hollywood extends well beyond the narrow time slot between 11:30 p.m. and 1:30 a.m. on three broadcast networks. It's about the rest of the schedule as well. Television as we have known it for more than 75 years in America affirmatively is going extinct, and practically nobody has reckoned with the implications of that.
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But cable isn't the only issue. Of the top 68 highest-rated single programs on all television in 2024, broadcast or cable, 65 were sporting events; number 39 was the Sunday Night Football studio show during a weather delay in October. Only two scripted shows, CBS's Tracker and Young Sheldon (which ended last year), made the top 100. Sports are the last thing keeping the broadcast/cable television apparatus alive, and the gradual movement of sports programming into streaming, most notably Amazon's grab of a share of the NBA contract for next season, signals that will meet its end, too.
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[E]ven talking about winners and losers in [late-night tv] obscures the ratings reality. The CBS Late Movie, a rerun it aired against The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in the 1970s and '80s, had an audience in 1972 of nearly seven million adults per film, nearly three times as many viewers as Colbert's "top-rated" Late Show a half-century later. The movie cost nothing but library rights. The Late Show costs $100 million a year.
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The Trump business gave Paramount an excuse internally to do something the conglomerates have resisted for a while but know they must eventually: begin the demolition of their linear television product. This may start in late night but it won't end there, as before long--maybe a decade--everything moves into the streaming networks....
The giant problem is that, while the old business model for televised entertainment is dead, the new business model doesn't yet exist.

Posted by: Ace at 02:52 PM

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1 20 people showed up. Heh.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 28, 2025 02:52 PM (u73oe)

2 Called em

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 28, 2025 02:52 PM (u73oe)

3 Triple?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 28, 2025 02:53 PM (u73oe)

4 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 02:53 PM (Zz0t1)

5 More people have commented than were at the rally.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 28, 2025 02:53 PM (N1tpc)

6 Score!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 28, 2025 02:53 PM (u73oe)

7 You want him on the air so bad? Give CBS $40m a year so they can at least break even on his shit show.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 02:53 PM (Zz0t1)

8 Thrown out at the plate.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 28, 2025 02:53 PM (u73oe)

9 Now that there is funny: Paying for protesters and still unable to purchase a crowd.

I guess even paid protesters have their principles.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 28, 2025 02:53 PM (tT6L1)

10 The last real late night host Jay Leno criticized Colbert for alienating half the country and destroying late night talk shows.

Michael Jordan said it decades ago........

"Republicans buy shoes too."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 02:54 PM (Zz0t1)

11 Why would lefties refuse to give their names? They face no Right Wing Cancellation Mobs.

I've got a thought: Maybe because they're paid "protesters."

Posted by: Ace at 03:52 PM

GIVE THIS MAN A CIGAR!

It also reveals how much the left has fallen. They used to have money to burn to pay for protestors. Now they can afford 20. (Funny the correlation with shutting down government waste and fraud...)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 28, 2025 02:54 PM (N1tpc)

12 10 Michael Jordan said it decades ago........

"Republicans buy shoes too."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 02:54 PM (Zz0t1)

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I thought we were all shoeless yokels.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 02:55 PM (GBKbO)

13 I don't know if the eulogy for OTA television should be written quite yet though. Last time I looked at Nielsen ratings (and this was some time ago in concert with a discussion at the HQ), there are a LOT of OTA and OTA Only households out there.

On another note, I saw that AppleTV is looking to take the Formula One broadcasts away from ESPN. I hope they don't fuck with the announcers like they did with MLS...

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 28, 2025 02:55 PM (PzXaK)

14 A Big Apple rally in support of on-his-way-out "Late Show" host Stephen Colbert drew fewer than two dozen people Sunday

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Ah, his appeal has grown even more selective than I thought!

Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2025 02:55 PM (krQz2)

15 Funny that all this is happening after USAID got shut down. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 28, 2025 02:55 PM (u73oe)

16 Ah, his appeal has grown even more selective than I thought!
Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2025 02:55 PM (krQz2)
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Still amusing even after all this time.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 28, 2025 02:56 PM (tT6L1)

17 I would have gone but I don't like him.

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at July 28, 2025 02:56 PM (nUGow)

18 Shelter needs to start wearing pants, and for the first time, he finally can!

Posted by: Colossal Ironpants, Inc. at July 28, 2025 02:56 PM (al0ho)

19 >>>Ah, his appeal has grown even more selective than I thought!

New York's not a real comedy town.

Posted by: Paul Schaeffer in Spinal Tap at July 28, 2025 02:56 PM (KRtlO)

20 Isn't the South Park deal $1.5b for 5 years?

That's not a solid business model, I don't think.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 02:56 PM (Zz0t1)

21
Shoulda gone for indigenous protesters -- they're more authentic.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 28, 2025 02:57 PM (xG4kz)

22 >>>Television as we have known it for more than 75 years in America affirmatively is going extinct, and practically nobody has reckoned with the implications of that.

How is this breaking news in 2025? This has been clear for at least 25 years, when the top shows were all on the HBO's and Showtimes of the world, and not on broadcast or even regular cable.

Then streaming came along.

Then AI-level content farms started pumping out more shitty TV shows than anyone could ever watch in a lifetime on those streaming services, and cable TV's shows were also shitty, but full of ads and you had to watch them at a specific time.

None of this is new.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 28, 2025 02:57 PM (uCjyK)

23 If Colbert had a son, it would be Elliott Page.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 28, 2025 02:57 PM (KbCG3)

24
Puppet Show

And

Stephen Colbert

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 28, 2025 02:57 PM (u73oe)

25 Why would lefties refuse to give their names? They face no Right Wing Cancellation Mobs.

I've got a thought: Maybe because they're paid "protesters."

Posted by: Ace at 03:52 PM
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It helps them to feel like courageous victims, if they pretend there is, though.

Progs like pretend.

Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2025 02:57 PM (krQz2)

26 15 Funny that all this is happening after USAID got shut down. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 28, 2025 02:55 PM (u73oe)

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I've been assured that shutting down USAID meant nothing because the Leviathan is too smart and too big to defeat and all good news about weakening it is actually bad news because they just hide it better.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 02:57 PM (GBKbO)

27 Colbert should do a bit regarding this protest. It would have the potential of being the funniest thing ever presented during his time as host of the Late Show.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at July 28, 2025 02:57 PM (sfpgX)

28 Superannuated toddlers:

@IanJaeger29 8m
JUST NOW: Democratic Members of Congress are now doing a “Sit-In” at an ICE facility and are demanding to be let in.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 28, 2025 02:57 PM (mlg/3)

29 So this is relevant: tinyurl.com/6n6ftkdy
Comcast is moving Cartoon Network to a paid service ($10/month). I guess they figure that it's a niche market but a loyal one.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 28, 2025 02:58 PM (H2Iel)

30
Craig Ferguson flirting with hot young actresses was great, but yeah, he and Carson are both on YouTube 24/7.

Posted by: Auspex at July 28, 2025 02:58 PM (Y8DZL)

31 Thrown out at the plate.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 28, 2025 02:53 PM (u73oe)

I've got a cannon for an arm.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 02:58 PM (Zz0t1)

32 Then AI-level content farms started pumping out more shitty TV shows than anyone could ever watch in a lifetime on those streaming services, and cable TV's shows were also shitty, but full of ads and you had to watch them at a specific time.

None of this is new.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 28, 2025 02:57 PM (uCjyK)

When I turn on my TV, it's to watch something on YouTube, and then maybe stream a movie or old show.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 28, 2025 02:58 PM (KbCG3)

33 BREAKING: A federal judge has just BLOCKED President Trump from defunding Planned Parenthood
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Good, gooooood, well done my child

Posted by: Satan at July 28, 2025 02:58 PM (7HpjT)

34 29 So this is relevant: tinyurl.com/6n6ftkdy
Comcast is moving Cartoon Network to a paid service ($10/month). I guess they figure that it's a niche market but a loyal one.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 28, 2025 02:58 PM (H2Iel)

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That's been Crunchyroll's business model forever, and it works great for them.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 28, 2025 02:58 PM (PzXaK)

35 So when Colbert is gone there will be no one left attacking Trump. Do I understand correctly?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at July 28, 2025 02:58 PM (kTd/k)

36 28 Superannuated toddlers:

@IanJaeger29 8m
JUST NOW: Democratic Members of Congress are now doing a “Sit-In” at an ICE facility and are demanding to be let in.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 28, 2025 02:57 PM (mlg/3)

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This theater comes from a place of strength.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 02:59 PM (GBKbO)

37
I thought we were all shoeless yokels.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer

Just the wimmens

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 28, 2025 02:59 PM (xG4kz)

38 "integrity", LOL

Paul Anka would like to discuss the meaning of that word with you ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 28, 2025 02:59 PM (dKEEs)

39 I've got a thought: Maybe because they're paid "protesters."

The clue is if they all leave in a group at precisely the top of the hour, when they stop being paid.

This has happened repeatedly at "protests" recently.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 28, 2025 02:59 PM (xTIDn)

40 >>>None of this is new.

well, what's new is that the long-predicted future is now here in the present.

Posted by: ace at July 28, 2025 02:59 PM (KRtlO)

41 Ah, his appeal has grown even more selective than I thought!
Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2025 02:55 PM (krQz2)
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Still amusing even after all this time.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 28, 2025 02:56 PM (tT6L1)
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Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shirer were genius comedy minds.

Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2025 02:59 PM (krQz2)

42 LOL, International Criminal Court just declared that Pollution and Greenhouse gases are against the law, and that Governments can be held accountable.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 28, 2025 02:59 PM (mP0Kj)

43 29 So this is relevant: tinyurl.com/6n6ftkdy
Comcast is moving Cartoon Network to a paid service ($10/month). I guess they figure that it's a niche market but a loyal one.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 28, 2025 02:58 PM (H2Iel)

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I think this is the first move away from being Cable exclusive.

It's essentially finally catching up with the streaming age.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 02:59 PM (GBKbO)

44 JUST NOW: Democratic Members of Congress are now doing a “Sit-In” at an ICE facility and are demanding to be let in.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 28, 2025 02:57 PM (mlg/3)

——————-

Cool. Let them in and lock the door behind them. Now youse can’t leave.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 28, 2025 02:59 PM (u73oe)

45 Well if they bring back jiggle vision, that would help. Maybe a remake of BJ and the Bear.

Posted by: Fred Silverman at July 28, 2025 02:59 PM (B2PWb)

46 Look at the bright side, he has more than enough of a crowd to make a full set of pallbearers.

Posted by: Thomans Paine at July 28, 2025 02:59 PM (Vfq+S)

47 JUST NOW: Democratic Members of Congress are now doing a “Sit-In” at an ICE facility and are demanding to be let in.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 28, 2025 02:57 PM (mlg/3)
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Wow, nothing says "aging hippy boomer" quite like staging a sit in.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 28, 2025 02:59 PM (tT6L1)

48 31 Thrown out at the plate.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 28, 2025 02:53 PM (u73oe)

I've got a cannon for an arm.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 02:58 PM (Zz0t1)

I hate you.

Posted by: Michelle Fields at July 28, 2025 02:59 PM (PiwSw)

49 "But we've always had the First Amendment, and now Mango Mussolini is trying to take that from us,"

Um, freedom of speech doesn't mean that a tv network has to continue employing someone that they are losing money on. Colbert can continue to run his mouth all he wants. Are these people really too dumb to understand that?

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 28, 2025 02:59 PM (0Htd1)

50 Breaking out the Wheel o' Perp

@Breaking911 3m
SHOOTING AT RENO, NEV. CASINO | LATEST:

- 2 dead
- 3 hospitalized
- Suspect in custody
- Circumstances of shooting unknown

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 28, 2025 03:00 PM (mlg/3)

51 The Lefty supporters believe that CBS should eat multi-million dollar losses every year to keep Retard on the air. They really do live in an alternate universe.

Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2025 03:00 PM (VofaG)

52
Wendy Patterson@wendyp4545

Breaking News: The man that stabbed 11 people in the Traverse City Wal-Mart had an arrest warrant issued to pick him up 2 days prior to the stabbings.

He has a list of 26 priors including mutilating dead bodies in a Cemetery. He was arrested and charged but was found not guilty by reason of insanity and he was released back onto the streets.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 28, 2025 03:00 PM (sIVhu)

53 If we let them into the ICE facility, can we then send them to a Central American prison?

Posted by: Wally at July 28, 2025 03:00 PM (7CamO)

54
I hate you.
Posted by: Michelle Fields at July 28, 2025 02:59 PM (PiwSw)

It only takes one, babe.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 03:01 PM (Zz0t1)

55 The only time I see cable or broadcast TV is when it's in a business lobby or I'm at a hotel.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 28, 2025 03:01 PM (7sA9x)

56 Well if they bring back jiggle vision, that would help. Maybe a remake of BJ and the Bear.
Posted by: Fred Silverman at July 28, 2025 02:59 PM (B2PWb)

How about a reboot of...Supertrain!

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, Ltd. at July 28, 2025 03:01 PM (PGK1w)

57 well, what's new is that the long-predicted future is now here in the present.
Posted by: ace at July 28, 2025 02:59 PM (KRtlO)

I wasn't arguing with you covering the story, I'm just rolling my eyes at how abundantly clear it's been that traditional television is dying and how no one in television seemed to realize that until 20 years after everyone else.

Or at least, they didn't act like they realized it.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 28, 2025 03:01 PM (uCjyK)

58 49 "But we've always had the First Amendment, and now Mango Mussolini is trying to take that from us,"

Um, freedom of speech doesn't mean that a tv network has to continue employing someone that they are losing money on. Colbert can continue to run his mouth all he wants. Are these people really too dumb to understand that?
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 28, 2025 02:59 PM (0Htd1)

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But Freedom of Speech does mean that the Federal Government can directly influence editorial decisions of private entities by manipulating a grant process to encourage some voices over others.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 03:01 PM (GBKbO)

59 >>> They really do live in an alternate universe.

No, we ALL do.

Posted by: Gia Nightshade and the 4am Club at July 28, 2025 03:01 PM (KRtlO)

60 "A Big Apple rally in support of on-his-way-out "Late Show" host Stephen Colbert drew fewer than two dozen people Sunday"

We were warned de-funding US AID would destroy Our Democracy and here we are.

Posted by: Ripley at July 28, 2025 03:01 PM (GUOwU)

61 I wonder if Trump will be allowed to speak in the UK parliament? Starmer probably too terrified to let him!

Posted by: Jmel at July 28, 2025 03:01 PM (bVhJi)

62 Party in my pants!

.... nobody's coming.

Posted by: Tater Stelter at July 28, 2025 03:02 PM (O1jNN)

63 Well there was that midnight mystery bloc in the 80s

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 28, 2025 03:02 PM (dMwf/)

64 His next move will be exactly what I said. I would call it right now a good 30% chance.

Serious News Commentator of the Very Serious Kind because this is all Super Serious Now and No Laughing Matter... with Steven Colbert.

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2025 03:02 PM (7HpjT)

65 They just had a couple murdered in a state park while hiking with their two young daughters. Did they open up all the mental wards in the country?

Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2025 03:02 PM (VofaG)

66 61 I wonder if Trump will be allowed to speak in the UK parliament? Starmer probably too terrified to let him!
Posted by: Jmel at July 28, 2025 03:01 PM (bVhJi)

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I think Trump is staying in Scotland.

He's essentially hosting these European leaders at his property like he's in America.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 03:02 PM (GBKbO)

67 I think Kimmel has actually done far worse than Colbert to turn late night into a moral whining lecture. However, while he hung around in 3rd place, he had less of an overall effect.

Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2025 03:02 PM (krQz2)

68 I think one good thing will come of all this: With no other options, Paramount will produce a Star Trek (original characters) reboot series, and they will be forced to produce a non-woke show because all the woke crap is failing.

Posted by: ace at July 28, 2025 03:02 PM (KRtlO)

69 Silk stalkings and the like

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 28, 2025 03:02 PM (dMwf/)

70 61 I wonder if Trump will be allowed to speak in the UK parliament? Starmer probably too terrified to let him!
Posted by: Jmel

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Yes, but will the British public be allowed to see it?

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 28, 2025 03:02 PM (O1jNN)

71 Steve Colbert has an anus made for penis.

Posted by: Mrs. Colbert, The Beard at July 28, 2025 03:03 PM (uNALH)

72 Isn't the South Park deal $1.5b for 5 years?
That's not a good business model.
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The fxck you say

Posted by: The Dodgers and Yankees at July 28, 2025 03:03 PM (B2PWb)

73 To show real support, they all need to shave their heads.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 28, 2025 03:03 PM (NpAcC)

74 who would only identify himself as Matt and said his nickname is "Slim."

Oooooo!!!!
Nicknames!
So trendy!

Posted by: Diogenes at July 28, 2025 03:03 PM (W/lyH)

75 Make America's Unfunny Comedians Great Again!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 28, 2025 03:03 PM (L/fGl)

76 Would it even be possible for everyone to live in an alternate universe?

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2025 03:03 PM (7HpjT)

77 I think this is the first move away from being Cable exclusive.

It's essentially finally catching up with the streaming age.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 02:59 PM (GBKbO)

What's becoming increasingly annoying to me is that streaming services are becoming everything I hated about cable.

Constant ads, lots of shitty shows I have no interest in watching, and if I wanted to watch everything on streaming, I'd be paying cable-level prices for all of those subscriptions.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 28, 2025 03:03 PM (uCjyK)

78 20 people? You can get 20 people to show up for naked vomit wrestling.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 03:03 PM (iFTx/)

79 I think one good thing will come of all this: With no other options, Paramount will produce a Star Trek (original characters) reboot series, and they will be forced to produce a non-woke show because all the woke crap is failing.
Posted by: ace at July 28, 2025 03:02 PM (KRtlO)

Maybe, but they'd need a new show runner who actually respects the franchise, and something so good it will bring back disaffected fans who have been gone for ten years now.

Trek has no credibility left, unfortunately. It needs to disappear for 5-10 years.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 28, 2025 03:04 PM (PzXaK)

80
Superannuated toddlers:

@IanJaeger29 8m
JUST NOW: Democratic Members of Congress are now doing a “Sit-In” at an ICE facility and are demanding to be let in.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Are they wearing their "I'm Here to Perform Oversight!" buttons?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 28, 2025 03:04 PM (xG4kz)

81 >>>63 Well there was that midnight mystery bloc in the 80s

I don't think they have the budget for original programming in these time slots. I think they'll reduce prime time to 8pm to 9:59 pm. everything else will be reruns, clip shows like Tosh 2.0, and licensed foreign productions like K-dramas.

Posted by: ace at July 28, 2025 03:04 PM (KRtlO)

82 Um, freedom of speech doesn't mean that a tv network has to continue employing someone that they are losing money on. Colbert can continue to run his mouth all he wants. Are these people really too dumb to understand that?

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 28, 2025 02:59 PM (0Htd1)

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All the same, if they can mount a serious boycott of CBS over this, I'm cool with that too.

All tails in this need to be kicked.

Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2025 03:04 PM (krQz2)

83 *Kicks dirt all over Sponge’s shoes*

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 28, 2025 03:04 PM (u73oe)

84 Trump should hire Colbert to do his act from the Oval office, once a week.

Pay him what he's getting paid now.

No studio audience. No clapter track. Just do your act.

Go on, the people are waiting.

I know I would laugh my ass off, at any rate.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2025 03:04 PM (VoAdT)

85 68 I think one good thing will come of all this: With no other options, Paramount will produce a Star Trek (original characters) reboot series, and they will be forced to produce a non-woke show because all the woke crap is failing.
Posted by: ace at July 28, 2025 03:02 PM (KRtlO)

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Confirmed:

Ace has not seen the Starfleet Academy trailer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkBU8lvXm7M

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 03:04 PM (GBKbO)

86 He has a list of 26 priors including mutilating dead bodies in a Cemetery. He was arrested and charged but was found not guilty by reason of insanity and he was released back onto the streets.
Posted by: Mister Ghost

...because what's where the bodies are at?

Posted by: Willie Sutton at July 28, 2025 03:04 PM (H2Iel)

87 Did they open up all the mental wards in the country?
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No. They did open them in all south America and sent them here. Its gonna be like this for a while.

Posted by: Sadness at July 28, 2025 03:05 PM (B2PWb)

88 The Guardian

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, say Israel-based human rights groups

Two leading human rights organisations based in Israel, B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights, say Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and the country’s western allies have a legal and moral duty to stop it.

In reports published on Monday, the two groups said Israel had targeted civilians in Gaza only because of their identity as Palestinians over nearly two years of war, causing severe and in some cases irreparable damage to Palestinian society.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 28, 2025 03:05 PM (sIVhu)

89 >>>Ace has not seen the Starfleet Academy trailer.

I did see part of that earlier today but that's still just a spin-off.

Posted by: ace at July 28, 2025 03:05 PM (KRtlO)

90 Are they wearing their "I'm Here to Perform Oversight!" buttons?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 28, 2025 03:04 PM (xG4kz)

"I'm With Stupid"

Posted by: gKWVE at July 28, 2025 03:05 PM (H2Iel)

91
Constant ads, lots of shitty shows I have no interest in watching, and if I wanted to watch everything on streaming, I'd be paying cable-level prices for all of those subscriptions.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes

"Oh, sir! Sir! have you heard about stuck poop?"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 28, 2025 03:05 PM (xG4kz)

92 We need comebacks from Joe Bob Briggs and Elvira Mistress of the Night!

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 28, 2025 03:05 PM (PzXaK)

93 The giant problem is that, while the old business model for televised entertainment is dead, the new business model doesn't yet exist.

Posted by Ace

Reality shows are cheap to produce and the look like they are too.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 28, 2025 03:05 PM (tv5Uu)

94 I for one welcome our new streaming overlords

Posted by: Flounder at July 28, 2025 03:05 PM (eCuBP)

95 Zombie gene roddenberry actually terry matalas did a decent picard season 3

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 28, 2025 03:06 PM (dMwf/)

96 94 I for one welcome our new streaming overlords
Posted by: Flounder at July 28, 2025 03:05 PM (eCuBP)

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I feel like you would think it's going to be great.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 03:06 PM (GBKbO)

97 Hey, soon-to-be-unemployed writers and show runners in Los Angeles; it's not all bad! There's a bumper crop of food push carts and shoe shine benches being left behind from the illegals vamoosing back over the border for you to pick up dirt cheap without much of a dent in your unemployment checks! It would be that real, gritty, grass-roots, minimum environmental footprint lifestyle you've claimed you always wanted!

I'm happy to help with recommendations. Because I'm a giver. I'm nice like that.

But don't bother trying to 'learn to code', because most of you would cripple yourselves counting to twenty.

Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at July 28, 2025 03:06 PM (Ft5W9)

98 I know the Left never holds their own accountable, but they have to know Kimmel's a fucking idiot, don't they?

Posted by: Wally at July 28, 2025 03:06 PM (7CamO)

99 >>>Reality shows are cheap to produce and the look like they are too.

yeah they'll be doing the New Newlywed Game and New Dating Game at these hours. Crap like that. Stuff that costs $5,000 per episode.

Posted by: ace at July 28, 2025 03:06 PM (KRtlO)

100 I love that no matter how much the left has wealthy donors, they're all going broke. The propaganda ministries, the tv networks, colleges etc. Media Matters is on they're last legs no matter how much money Soros pumps into it. They were bitching about Marc Elias legal bills. Work the glory hole lefties

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 28, 2025 03:07 PM (hIY2p)

101 When I was a kid, happily consuming all the Big Three product, then came the UHF channels, then cable. By the time cable entrenched, I’d pretty much stopped being a regular habitual viewer of the TeeVee.
Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine I’d be able to curate my own program schedule, and have the ability to engage with the content creator in real time.
Or that just random ppl who decided to host their own channel now spiel their sponsors’ products as well as the old-timey paid professionals used to do, or even better.

Posted by: kallisto at July 28, 2025 03:07 PM (Fi95G)

102 Democratic Members of Congress are now doing a “Sit-In” at an ICE facility and are demanding to be let in.

So, maybe parade in a hundred or so of the worst of the worst and let them sit next to them.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 28, 2025 03:07 PM (W/lyH)

103 If you build it, they will come.

Decent writing and acting, good looking actors with some charisma, tits and ass, nice scenery, will make money.

Posted by: Mongo at July 28, 2025 03:07 PM (s9EN2)

104 99 yeah they'll be doing the New Newlywed Game and New Dating Game at these hours. Crap like that. Stuff that costs $5,000 per episode.
Posted by: ace at July 28, 2025 03:06 PM (KRtlO)

======

And that they can film entire seasons of in 2-3 weeks.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 03:07 PM (GBKbO)

105 Reality TV is fine, but eventually you have to dip into the Fake Housewives pool.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 28, 2025 03:07 PM (PzXaK)

106 JUST NOW: Democratic Members of Congress are now doing a “Sit-In” at an ICE facility and are demanding to be let in.

+++
Fine, but they get the full ride. Deport them.

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at July 28, 2025 03:07 PM (19Jrv)

107 I just watched the Star Trek : Beyond.

To me that is the stupidest Star Trek movie yet. I couldn't suspend an ounce of belief.

Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2025 03:07 PM (VofaG)

108 freedom of speech doesn't mean that a tv network has to continue employing someone that they are losing money on. Colbert can continue to run his mouth all he wants. Are these people really too dumb to understand that?
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Freedom of speech now means you must not only agree with all lefty opinions and projects, you must support and participate enthusiastically. Or else.

Posted by: Sadness at July 28, 2025 03:07 PM (B2PWb)

109 T'was Youtube killed the beast.

Video killed the video star

Video killed the video star...

Posted by: eleven at July 28, 2025 03:08 PM (fV+MH)

110 JUST NOW: Democratic Members of Congress are now doing a “Sit-In” at an ICE facility and are demanding to be let in.
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One of them holds up a sign "Will blow you for camera time."

Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2025 03:08 PM (krQz2)

111 I think these leftists are right. After re-reading the first amendment I noticed there is a second paragraph that guarantees life long employment for TV hosts.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 28, 2025 03:08 PM (Vvm2m)

112 It gets worse with discovery and picard 1-2

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 28, 2025 03:08 PM (dMwf/)

113 I just watched the Star Trek : Beyond.

To me that is the stupidest Star Trek movie yet. I couldn't suspend an ounce of belief.
Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2025 03:07 PM (VofaG)

When Kurtzman putting in Beastie Boys songs into the movies is when it was absolutely clear he had no fucking respect for the ST Universe.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 28, 2025 03:09 PM (PzXaK)

114 YouTube is the 21c iteration of old school public access TV, with enhancements

Posted by: kallisto at July 28, 2025 03:09 PM (Fi95G)

115 We need comebacks from Joe Bob Briggs and Elvira Mistress of the Night!
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 28, 2025 03:05 PM (PzXaK)

Dark.

Also... Rhonda Shear

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2025 03:09 PM (7HpjT)

116 They don't care about freedom of speech.

They care about obligation of listening.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2025 03:09 PM (VoAdT)

117
How about "Carnival Cruise Passengers Gone Wild" as an offering?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 28, 2025 03:09 PM (xG4kz)

118 No. They did open them in all south America and sent them here. Its gonna be like this for a while.
Posted by: Sadness

-------------
Mariel Boatlift 2.0

At least Carter had the excuse that he was an idiot and such a thing had never been done before.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 28, 2025 03:09 PM (O1jNN)

119 Two problems with the cable/broadcast model these days.

1. There are so many different viewing choices that there is no critical mass of cow-orkers to talk about last night's episode around the water cooler.

2. Cow-orkers don't go to the office any more so there's nobody around the water cooler in the first place.

Posted by: muldoon at July 28, 2025 03:09 PM (poXs5)

120 Why does anybody on the left care about Colbert? He's probably a millionaire many times over. It's not as if he's going to be living under an overpass. Same with the women of "The View" . Joy Reid , for instance is in her 80's isn't she ( ?) and well provided for if the show doesn't return.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2025 03:09 PM (2GCMq)

121 We need comebacks from Joe Bob Briggs and Elvira Mistress of the Night!
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 28, 2025 03:05 PM (PzXaK)

He does actually have a show again and Elvira is a washed up lesbian now.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 03:09 PM (Zz0t1)

122 the real story is that the entire model of broadcast television is collapsing.

No worries. They have a fix for that. ATSC 3.0 will allow broadcasters to require subscription fees and block time shifting DVR recordings. This should cause OTA viewership to skyrocket.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 28, 2025 03:09 PM (EXyHK)

123 A member of the Democratic Socialists of America is facing his first appearance in Federal court in Portland this afternoon.

The Usual Suspects will be protesting at the courthouse (including at least one socialist city councilwoman) - among their other complaints is:

Jacob Hoopes was violently arrested in his home by the FBI weeks after protesting ICE.

Because everyone knows that you can only arrest rioters at the riot, and not later.

He has the usual Bluesky account - Jew-hatred, blood libel, and what have you, but he's also posted his resume online.

One of the things he lists as a "soft skill" is "Ethical decision-making".

I guess that is a new resume red flag.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 28, 2025 03:09 PM (xTIDn)

124 Freedom of speech now means you must not only agree with all lefty opinions and projects, you must support and participate enthusiastically. Or else.

Posted by: Sadness at July 28, 2025 03:07 PM (B2PWb)
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Before Elon bought X, it was about to mean that.

I mean even though Janky's reign was truncated, how long was it going to be until the government tried something like that again?

Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2025 03:10 PM (krQz2)

125 JUST NOW: Democratic Members of Congress are now doing a “Sit-In” at an ICE facility and are demanding to be let in.
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It's not a sit-in without the rich white people in African garb.

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2025 03:10 PM (7HpjT)

126 I'd just like to point out that the Graham Norton Show (in the UK) outperforms all Late Night shows in the US.

I wonder why that is. Probably because he (for the most part) stays away from politics. He secures guests that are popular and aren't just message oriented. He allows various celebrities to interact with other celebrities. But, most of all, the show is entertaining.

Also, he'll bring on multiple guests from the same project and allow them to interact without interruption. You get to hear some of the behind the scenes stuff that's also entertaining. Actors and actresses on a Tom Cruise movie will usually pile on and tell everyone what a lunatic he is at taking risks.

Posted by: Orson at July 28, 2025 03:10 PM (dIske)

127 Dark.

Also... Rhonda Shear
Posted by: ... at July 28, 2025 03:09 PM (7HpjT)

Totally forgot about her.

UP All Night!

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 28, 2025 03:10 PM (PzXaK)

128 You'd think the lefty hosts would figure out that alienating half the country isn't going to work long term but you'd be wrong. The arrogance is astounding and this is a long time coming for lots of people and I'm so here for their comeuppance.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 28, 2025 03:10 PM (Cg3Gl)

129 Only two scripted shows, CBS's Tracker and Young Sheldon (which ended last year), made the top 100.

I watch mainly British whodunits on a cable network called Ovation. They're just better quality shows. And I have the record feature for my cable company. So I can record shows and movies and watch them when I want. I also stream a lot of stuff from online to my biggest tv. The old way of watching tv is dead to me.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 28, 2025 03:10 PM (0Htd1)

130
Quoting myself:

Make the Indian head test pattern great again.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 28, 2025 03:10 PM (lCaJd)

131 If you want your Colbert you can keep him
Barack Obama probably

Posted by: steevy at July 28, 2025 03:11 PM (YwEeS)

132 Posted by: Orson at July 28, 2025 03:10 PM (dIske)

He took the Johnny Carson model and ran with it.

Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2025 03:11 PM (VofaG)

133 " ... putting in Beastie Boys songs into the movies ... "

I have this dreadful sinking feeling that you mean that literally.

huh. wow.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 28, 2025 03:11 PM (dKEEs)

134 They care about obligation of listening.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2025 03:09 PM (VoAdT)

The First Amendment of Doomed Marriages

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2025 03:11 PM (7HpjT)

135 The giant problem is that, while the old business model for televised entertainment is dead, the new business model doesn't yet exist.

Posted by: Ace at 03:52 PM

And I think to the end user the total cost has to be so low they aren't going to be able to run the corporation on it. People aren't gonna want several providers. They might be able to tolerate one, if they can have Paramount go look up the cost on another stream, get a wholesale price and resell to you for a small added charge.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 28, 2025 03:11 PM (8avO+)

136 Broadcast networks are all "For Sale!". That says a lot.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 28, 2025 03:11 PM (Rev1n)

137 He has a list of 26 priors including mutilating dead bodies in a Cemetery.

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Oh, I suppose that's a crime now!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 28, 2025 03:11 PM (L/fGl)

138 I wonder if Trump will be allowed to speak in the UK parliament?

Parliament has already rejected the idea.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 28, 2025 03:11 PM (xTIDn)

139 He was arrested and charged but was found not guilty by reason of insanity and he was released back onto the streets.
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That's not how that's supposed to work!!!!

Posted by: Sadness at July 28, 2025 03:11 PM (B2PWb)

140 120 Why does anybody on the left care about Colbert? He's probably a millionaire many times over. It's not as if he's going to be living under an overpass. Same with the women of "The View" . Joy Reid , for instance is in her 80's isn't she ( ?) and well provided for if the show doesn't return.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2025 03:09 PM (2GCMq)
*********
Because it's one less major megaphone to bash Trump on a nightly basis.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 28, 2025 03:11 PM (NpAcC)

141 I think it might be interesting to see how many people would show up at a "Keep Stephen Colbert Off the Air" rally. Probably get a pretty good crowd.

Posted by: Paco at July 28, 2025 03:11 PM (mADJX)

142 1
20 people showed up. Heh.
Posted by: Duke Lowell
......

Why?

Posted by: wth at July 28, 2025 03:12 PM (v0R5T)

143 the real story is that the entire model of broadcast television is collapsing.

They could try some really radical solutions, such as airing shows that don't suck.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 28, 2025 03:12 PM (Riz8t)

144 99 yeah they'll be doing the New Newlywed Game and New Dating Game at these hours. Crap like that. Stuff that costs $5,000 per episode.
Posted by: ace

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By they, I assume you mean "AI"

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 28, 2025 03:12 PM (O1jNN)

145
eventually you have to dip into the Fake Housewives pool.

Where the Paolo swims better than Johnny Weissmuller

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 28, 2025 03:12 PM (2VGI4)

146
I remember when Kyrie was on the Celtics, and there were times when you wanted to take a 2x4 to his head, but he may be right here...

Shadow of Ezra@ShadowofEzra

NBA star Kyrie Irving says the world is nothing more than a staged performance, carefully scripted and controlled.

He claims many celebrities aren't even real people, but actors playing roles—pretending to be human.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 28, 2025 03:12 PM (sIVhu)

147 ***Television as we have known it for more than 75 years in America affirmatively is going extinct, and practically nobody has reckoned with the implications of that.
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It's an odd thing to lose. The technology is there and cheap.
The Big 4 national broadcasts possibly but it's sitting there waiting for creative use. The worst thing, technically, to TV was switching to High Frequency. The old band could be received for a hundred miles.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 28, 2025 03:12 PM (E7bCG)

148 Yeah that was punk kirk

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 28, 2025 03:13 PM (dMwf/)

149 Also very odd memory...

Very late night in Denver years ago, there was a show called Comedy Break with Mack and Jamie. Came on right before the nightly ST TOS rerun.

I would set the VCR to record ST and catch the last five minutes of Comedy Break. It was a fun show. And it looked cheap to make.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 28, 2025 03:13 PM (PzXaK)

150
He claims many celebrities aren't even real people, but actors playing roles—pretending to be human.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 28, 2025 03:12 PM (sIVhu)

Well, they're doing a horrible job at it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 03:13 PM (Zz0t1)

151 Two problems with the cable/broadcast model these days.

1. There are so many different viewing choices that there is no critical mass of cow-orkers to talk about last night's episode around the water cooler.

2. Cow-orkers don't go to the office any more so there's nobody around the water cooler in the first place.
Posted by: muldoon

3. Their programming sucks.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 28, 2025 03:13 PM (L/fGl)

152
Colbert's show losing $40 million a year. I wonder how much the dancing Covid syringes cartoon cost. Which makes me wonder if money from USAID etc. was finding its way to the network through some back door.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at July 28, 2025 03:14 PM (uz6ub)

153 The old band could be received for a hundred miles.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 28, 2025 03:12 PM (E7bCG)

We know.

Posted by: The DOD at July 28, 2025 03:14 PM (TOnMl)

154 I'm sorry. I got her name wrong. It's Joy Behar not Reid and it's obvious she has a lot of money to spend on cosmetic procedures. She looks great.

Yes, it's a vehicle to bash Trump ,but how many people are actually listening?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2025 03:14 PM (2GCMq)

155 When I was a kid, happily consuming all the Big Three product, then came the UHF channels, then cable. By the time cable entrenched, I’d pretty much stopped being a regular habitual viewer of the TeeVee.

ON TV had the porn movies you could get on the dial with no sound and the squiggly line down the middle back in the 80s for free!

Posted by: TV Pervert at July 28, 2025 03:14 PM (uNALH)

156 Lo I remember how naive I was. When I was a pup I thought the subject of "Ethics" was about conducting business properly or whatever.

Then it turned out it was mostly about how many people you would need to kill for optimal outcomes. I fucking hate the Left.

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2025 03:14 PM (7HpjT)

157 "130
Quoting myself:

Make the Indian head test pattern great again.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 28, 2025 03:10 PM (lCaJd) "

Brava!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 28, 2025 03:14 PM (dKEEs)

158 He claims many celebrities aren't even real people, but actors playing roles—pretending to be human.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 28, 2025 03:12 PM (sIVhu)

I'm trying really hard to wrap my head around this part.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 28, 2025 03:14 PM (uCjyK)

159 They don't care about freedom of speech.

They care about obligation of listening.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

**********

I think I'm going to borrow that.

It's a good reminder to re-phrase everything they say using the polar opposite of each word.

Posted by: muldoon at July 28, 2025 03:14 PM (poXs5)

160 133 " ... putting in Beastie Boys songs into the movies ... "

I have this dreadful sinking feeling that you mean that literally.

huh. wow.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 28, 2025 03:11 PM (dKEEs)

Literally.

Scene in ST: Beyond where Kirk is, I shit you not, riding a motorcycle around the enemy camp or whatever and "Sabotage" is playing.

Sigh.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 28, 2025 03:14 PM (PzXaK)

161 >>>It also reveals how much the left has fallen. They used to have money to burn to pay for protestors. Now they can afford 20. (Funny the correlation with shutting down government waste and fraud...)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian
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They used to have our money to burn.
USAID is gone so our money has been withdrawn. They are on their own.
hahahahahah

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 28, 2025 03:15 PM (E7bCG)

162 Does Brian Stelter wear pants?

Posted by: Eeyore at July 28, 2025 03:15 PM (od0dV)

163 Colbert's show losing $40 million a year. I wonder how much the dancing Covid syringes cartoon cost. Which makes me wonder if money from USAID etc. was finding its way to the network through some back door.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at July 28, 2025 03:14 PM (uz6ub)
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They would have needed only to cut 40% of their writing budget to break even. That would still leave them with a 60 million dollar writing budget.

Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2025 03:15 PM (krQz2)

164 45 Well if they bring back jiggle vision, that would help. Maybe a remake of BJ and the Bear.
Posted by: Fred Silverman

Mr. Silverman, don't we still have the Supertrain sets all ready to go?

Posted by: Toothy Intern at July 28, 2025 03:16 PM (G5+As)

165 Co- Burt is a dime a dozen comedian

Posted by: Skip at July 28, 2025 03:16 PM (+qU29)

166 Job hunting again.

I hate corporations and corporate cultures.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at July 28, 2025 03:16 PM (eZwyX)

167 "It's an odd thing to lose. The technology is there and cheap.
The Big 4 national broadcasts possibly but it's sitting there waiting for creative use. The worst thing, technically, to TV was switching to High Frequency. The old band could be received for a hundred miles.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 28, 2025 03:12 PM (E7bCG) "

very true

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 28, 2025 03:16 PM (dKEEs)

168 Did Fenelon really say that Joy Behar looked great?!?!?!?

Posted by: Wally at July 28, 2025 03:16 PM (7CamO)

169 ON TV had the porn movies you could get on the dial with no sound and the squiggly line down the middle back in the 80s for free!
Posted by: TV Pervert at July 28, 2025 03:14 PM (uNALH)

My dad attempted to build a descrambler for that channel. He got damn close, for sure. Don't remember if he had the audio stream or not, but the picture would come in reasonably clear, sometimes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 03:16 PM (Zz0t1)

170 I repeat but ABC canceled Tim Allen's highly rated show which was a money maker . It was obvious they did it because someone didn't like it was broadcasting a conservative message.

I don't remember the Left raising free speech issues at that time.

Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2025 03:16 PM (VofaG)

171 Forty
Million
A
Year
for this voucher.
Unbelievable.

Posted by: torabora at July 28, 2025 03:17 PM (WTo7d)

172 He claims many celebrities aren't even real people

Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 28, 2025 03:12 PM (sIVhu)
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Was one of them on a certain plane with a certain young lady who couldn't ride on the same plane?

Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2025 03:17 PM (krQz2)

173 I saw Uncomfortably Uncharismatic Unfunnyman open for Desperate Dick Diver at the Compton Comedy Club in '97.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Marshall Plan is MORTE! at July 28, 2025 03:17 PM (8J7VP)

174 Starlet academy v Hogwarts

Let them fight!!!

Posted by: Max Headroom at July 28, 2025 03:17 PM (B2PWb)

175 We used to have a commenter with the nic Steve And Cold Bear.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 28, 2025 03:17 PM (u73oe)

176 It's a good reminder to re-phrase everything they say using the polar opposite of each word.
Posted by: muldoon at July 28, 2025 03:14 PM (poXs5)

Sometimes it just needs an important missing word.

Like - Freedom of Choice.

They mean Freedom of THEIR Choice

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2025 03:17 PM (7HpjT)

177 It seems to me his resistance would be more effective if he was actually funny and had an audience. But what do I know?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at July 28, 2025 03:17 PM (kTd/k)

178 169 ON TV had the porn movies you could get on the dial with no sound and the squiggly line down the middle back in the 80s for free!
Posted by: TV Pervert at July 28, 2025 03:14 PM (uNALH)

My dad attempted to build a descrambler for that channel. He got damn close, for sure. Don't remember if he had the audio stream or not, but the picture would come in reasonably clear, sometimes.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 03:16 PM (Zz0t1)

Goddamned Father of the Year.

My dad made me do laundry.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 28, 2025 03:17 PM (PzXaK)

179 Two leading human rights organisations based in Israel, B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights, say Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and the country’s western allies have a legal and moral duty to stop it.

In reports published on Monday, the two groups said Israel had targeted civilians in Gaza only because of their identity as Palestinians over nearly two years of war, causing severe and in some cases irreparable damage to Palestinian society.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 28, 2025 03:05 PM (sIVhu)

Hamas declared war on Israel, and killed thousands of civilians without warning. Its war now baby, and civilians are there at their own risk

Posted by: Oldcat at July 28, 2025 03:17 PM (8avO+)

180 Reality shows are cheap to produce and the look like they are too.

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Cheap if you don't include the degradation of the viewing public.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 28, 2025 03:17 PM (L/fGl)

181 I don't remember the Left raising free speech issues at that time.
Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2025 03:16 PM (VofaG)
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There are no beliefs on the left without vectors.

Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2025 03:18 PM (krQz2)

182 Some civilians are more targetable than others, I guess.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2025 03:18 PM (VoAdT)

183 @162 allegedly with elastic waist bands

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 28, 2025 03:18 PM (hIY2p)

184 How many catty white women in the world are there?

I don't know but they all seem to be on TikTok taking shots at Sydney Sweeney....

Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 28, 2025 03:18 PM (sIVhu)

185 Posted by: Wally at July 28, 2025 03:16 PM (7CamO)

She's 82. Yes, for her age she looks very good. That doesn't mean that I have to like her politics and I don't . I don't think that somebody necessarily looks bad physically because I don't share their politics .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2025 03:18 PM (2GCMq)

186 Hamas apologists one might call the kapos

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 28, 2025 03:18 PM (dMwf/)

187 I wouldn't doubt USAID money went to Entertainment shows

Posted by: Skip at July 28, 2025 03:19 PM (+qU29)

188 The worst thing, technically, to TV was switching to High Frequency. The old band could be received for a hundred miles.

I still watch broadcast television, via a DVR. The HDTV picture is definitely better than the old picture. But the loss of resiliency is a serious drawback. A car driving by can cause the signal to go out completely rather than just flicker. Same with weather. Instead of a fuzzy image there is no image. I’m not entirely convinced that the trade off was worth it.

When the signal is solid it is amazing, though.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 28, 2025 03:19 PM (EXyHK)

189 The stage unions and unions in general are murder in NY. 200 people getting a paycheck from a stupid little interview show is ridiculous and can't go on.

Posted by: Featherbed Fred at July 28, 2025 03:19 PM (G5+As)

190
My dad made me do laundry.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 28, 2025 03:17 PM (PzXaK)

Mom made me do that. I've been doing my own laundry since I was around 8.

"Can't make it into the hamper? You're doing your own laundry."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 03:19 PM (Zz0t1)

191 Come on. Not ONE person that wasn't PAID was protesting on behalf of the unfunny / unwatched Colbert show.

Posted by: deadrody at July 28, 2025 03:19 PM (vgB0v)

192 "Because it's one less major megaphone to bash Trump on a nightly basis.
Posted by: redridinghood "

Plus it's another big fat L they have to suck on.

Posted by: eleven at July 28, 2025 03:19 PM (fV+MH)

193 NBA star Kyrie Irving says the world is nothing more than a staged performance, carefully scripted and controlled.

**********

I wonder who wrote that for him.

Posted by: muldoon at July 28, 2025 03:19 PM (poXs5)

194 I repeat but ABC canceled Tim Allen's highly rated show which was a money maker . It was obvious they did it because someone didn't like it was broadcasting a conservative message.

I don't remember the Left raising free speech issues at that time.
Posted by: polynikes at J

Some leftists running to the fainting couch over Colbert were pushing to cancel Adam Carolla for going against the state approved Covid message.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 28, 2025 03:19 PM (Vvm2m)

195 Didn't AOC say speech needs to be controlled?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at July 28, 2025 03:19 PM (kTd/k)

196 My dad attempted to build a descrambler for that channel. He got damn close, for sure. Don't remember if he had the audio stream or not, but the picture would come in reasonably clear, sometimes.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 03:16 PM (Zz0t1)

You just needed the correct resistor. I had a friend who made a 'cable box' with a cool whip container and a resistor.

Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2025 03:20 PM (VofaG)

197 Shes a shrieking harridan for which perseus had the shield

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 28, 2025 03:20 PM (dMwf/)

198 Mr. Silverman, don't we still have the Supertrain sets all ready to go?
Posted by: Toothy Intern
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By jove that intern is right! We're saved!!!!!

Posted by: Fred Silverman at July 28, 2025 03:20 PM (B2PWb)

199 VOTE VANCE!

Posted by: Sid at July 28, 2025 03:20 PM (74YyP)

200
"Our Democracy"

THEIR Democracy

Actually just always use the word "their".

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2025 03:20 PM (7HpjT)

201 104 99 yeah they'll be doing the New Newlywed Game and New Dating Game at these hours. Crap like that. Stuff that costs $5,000 per episode.
Posted by: ace at July 28, 2025 03:06 PM (KRtlO)

======

And that they can film entire seasons of in 2-3 weeks. - the James Madison

Plus there's always a chance you get another contestant who turns out to be a serial killer, so, more opportunities for cheap "based-on-a-true-story" movies.

Posted by: Paco at July 28, 2025 03:20 PM (mADJX)

202 Lo I remember how naive I was. When I was a pup I thought the subject of "Ethics" was about conducting business properly or whatever.

Then it turned out it was mostly about how many people you would need to kill for optimal outcomes. I fucking hate the Left.
Posted by: ... at July 28, 2025 03:14 PM (7HpjT)

Can't have a discussion with a Leftist for long before the subject of their building death camps comes up.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 28, 2025 03:20 PM (8avO+)

203 80 year olds with plastic surgery don't look great.
They look weird.

Posted by: wth at July 28, 2025 03:20 PM (UjdFS)

204 report on new armored golf cart

The Daily Beast
@thedailybeast
The buggy arrives roughly ten months after the president survived an alleged assassination attempt while golfing.

.. an alleged ?

Posted by: SMOD at July 28, 2025 03:20 PM (RHGPo)

205 Joy Behar could knock a buzzard off a shit wagon at a hundred paces.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 28, 2025 03:20 PM (u73oe)

206 NBA star Kyrie Irving says the world is nothing more than a staged performance, carefully scripted and controlled.
---
It's the new "Everything is an Op."

Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2025 03:20 PM (krQz2)

207 195 Didn't AOC say speech needs to be controlled?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at July 28, 2025 03:19 PM (kTd/k)

She also thinks a long island iced tea has iced tea in it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2025 03:20 PM (VoAdT)

208
I think one good thing will come of all this: With no other options, Paramount will produce a Star Trek (original characters) reboot series, and they will be forced to produce a non-woke show because all the woke crap is failing.
Posted by: ace

===============

What worked all along: the final frontier

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 28, 2025 03:20 PM (lCaJd)

209 Speaking of 80 year olds looking hep, but Ringo Starr seems to be on the Queen's Lizard Juice...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 28, 2025 03:20 PM (sIVhu)

210 What’s crazy is broadcast TV comes in very clear now and it’s free. There’s no fiddling with antennas and static like it used to be.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 28, 2025 03:21 PM (d36kK)

211 Like I said before, TV maybe could save itself if they utterly changed every single thing they are.

Which is not what people do.

Posted by: eleven at July 28, 2025 03:21 PM (fV+MH)

212 Imagine being so deep into cuckoldry that you take time out of your busy schedule of watching your wife get plowed by strangers, get up out of your Cuck Chair, get dressed, and go to a protest with two dozen other cucks to try to get a television network to not fire an unfunny dweeb like Colbert.

Boggles the mind.

Posted by: ballistic at July 28, 2025 03:21 PM (3BwY8)

213 Dan Bongino
@FBIDDBongino
1h
Another update for you on our efforts to defend the homeland and protect the American people from our foreign adversaries.

Alongside
@USAttyPirro
, we announced that American citizen Christina Chapman was sentenced to 102 MONTHS in prison for DEFRAUDING 309 US companies and STEALING THE IDENTITIES of 68 Americans. She operated a “laptop farm” from her home, generating more than $17 MILLION for North Korea to fund their nuclear weapons and evade our sanctions. With over 90 LAPTOPS in her home and 49 SHIPPED OVERSEAS, North Korean IT workers were not only earning money for the North Korean government but also accessing US companies’ networks and highly sensitive data.

https://tinyurl.com/3whhz4u9

Posted by: redridinghood at July 28, 2025 03:22 PM (NpAcC)

214 Hamas declared war on Israel, and killed thousands of civilians without warning. Its war now baby, and civilians are there at their own risk
Posted by: Oldcat

Barky O'Bambam says the Jews need to forgive and forget.

https://is.gd/SKKE0p

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 28, 2025 03:22 PM (L/fGl)

215 Not ONE person that wasn't PAID was protesting on behalf of the unfunny / unwatched Colbert show.
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Which, turns out to be the funniest thing ever associated with Colbert.

Posted by: Ironically at July 28, 2025 03:22 PM (B2PWb)

216 he's 82. Yes, for her age she looks very good. That doesn't mean that I have to like her politics and I don't . I don't think that somebody necessarily looks bad physically because I don't share their politics .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2025 03:18 PM (2GCMq)

Yep.

See also AOC.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 28, 2025 03:22 PM (Vvm2m)

217 Who does Colbert think he is, Spencer for Hire?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 28, 2025 03:23 PM (zZu0s)

218 NBA star Kyrie Irving says the world is nothing more than a staged performance, carefully scripted and controlled.

———-

All the world’s indeed a stage and we are merely players. Performers and portrayers.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 28, 2025 03:23 PM (u73oe)

219 Sid, there's this little functional principle that not alienating half your potential audience could give you good ratings, draw sponsors and keep you on the air.

Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2025 03:23 PM (krQz2)

220 and now Mango Mussolini is trying to take that from us," he said, referring to a derogatory nickname for President Trump

Two rules for nicknames:
1) You don't choose your nickname; others choose it for you

2) If you have to explicitly state the person's real name after the nickname, that's not that person's nickname.

Posted by: Nickname R Us at July 28, 2025 03:23 PM (D0HYP)

221 I had a buddy that bought a 69 Impala out of the local impound yard. The trunk was full of cable descramblers. I had HBO, cinemax, showtime and playboy all hooked up behind my dresser for a couple of years.
Only a small B&W tv though. Then they "upgraded" to the boxs and they didn't work anymore.

Posted by: Reforger at July 28, 2025 03:24 PM (TOnMl)

222 NBA star Kyrie Irving says the world is nothing more than a staged performance, carefully scripted and controlled.

We already know birds aren't real.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at July 28, 2025 03:24 PM (kTd/k)

223
See also AOC.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 28, 2025 03:22 PM (Vvm2m)

No thanks.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 03:24 PM (Zz0t1)

224 >> "I don't understand why you would alienate one particular group, you know, or just don't do it at all,

You really need to be deftly unaware of what’s going on to even make that kind of statement. The major media networks are funded by a bunch of left wing interests. They were also receiving laundered funds from the government. They’ve purposely chosen hosts who are true believers. It’s beyond question that some of them have been linked to the intelligence agencies.

Do I need to draw this with crayons and pictures?

Posted by: Vengeance at July 28, 2025 03:24 PM (vB6UG)

225 Jonathan Capeheart, Don Lemon , Jim Acosta, Glenn Kessler, Jen Rubin, F Chuck Todd, the CBS anchor Steven Colbert and many more who tortured Trump during his first term are unemployed or soon to be so. The media business model and leftist propaganda ministers are going , going, gone. Schadenfreude on steroids and human growth hormone

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 28, 2025 03:24 PM (hIY2p)

226 I just want to watch sports. There are ways to do that which don't require a cable subscription, or even a television.

Posted by: Don Black at July 28, 2025 03:25 PM (AOsQT)

227 So how did Ace get his nickname?

Posted by: eleven at July 28, 2025 03:25 PM (fV+MH)

228 Imagine being so deep into cuckoldry that you take time out of your busy schedule of watching your wife get plowed by strangers, get up out of your Cuck Chair, get dressed, and go to a protest with two dozen other cucks to try to get a television network to not fire an unfunny dweeb like Colbert.

Boggles the mind.
===
TBF, after years of cuck chair humiliation, sometimes you have to go the extra mile to recapture the excitement of that initial public humiliation.

Posted by: Colbert protestor slim at July 28, 2025 03:25 PM (B2PWb)

229 Hamas declared war on Israel, and killed thousands of civilians without warning. Its war now baby, and civilians are there at their own risk
Posted by: Oldcat

Barky O'Bambam says the Jews need to forgive and forget.

https://is.gd/SKKE0p
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 28, 2025 03:22 PM (L/fGl)

Shows his ignorance of international law and the rules of warfare. Hamas put themselves in the group that can be shot down like dogs.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 28, 2025 03:25 PM (8avO+)

230 There’s no fiddling with antennas and static like it used to be.

This depends a lot on where you are and what you want. Where I am, somewhat north of Austin, there is a lot of fiddling with antennas. I went through three before I got one I liked. And I can still get a different set of stations depending on how I orient the antenna.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 28, 2025 03:25 PM (EXyHK)

231 NBA star Kyrie Irving says the world is nothing more than a staged performance, carefully scripted and controlled.

We already know birds aren't real.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at July 28, 2025 03:24 PM (kTd/k)
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It's owls.

Posted by: Zombie David Lynch at July 28, 2025 03:26 PM (krQz2)

232 He claims many celebrities aren't even real people, but actors playing roles—pretending to be human.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 28, 2025 03:12 PM (sIVhu)

Some celebrity is definitely manufactured, like the boy bands of the 80s/90s. I don't know if that's what he's referring to. Although it's not extremely far-fetched that the system would co-opt people with a following and prop up their celebrity to keep mindless drones occupied, like Taylor Swift and her throng of emotionally and intellectually underdeveloped middle-aged women fans.

Posted by: Interesting idea I guess at July 28, 2025 03:26 PM (TbWk/)

233 LGBTQTV never really caught on in any household I visited. Even the advertising is full of fags.

I only watched TV for sports and now they're practically all PPV.

Bye, bye!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 28, 2025 03:26 PM (EcGlk)

234
We already know birds aren't real.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at July 28, 2025 03:24 PM (kTd/k)

Isn't he a flat earther too?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 03:26 PM (Zz0t1)

235 BTW ask yourself a simple question.
Ready?
Why, after DOGE exposed massive piles of taxpayer money being laundered have all the major media companies and there shows started to collapse?

I’ll be here all day.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 28, 2025 03:26 PM (vB6UG)

236 "Oh, sir! Sir! have you heard about stuck poop?"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 28, 2025 03:05 PM (xG4kz)

Jee-zus!!

Posted by: Sheriff Stan Miller, ret. at July 28, 2025 03:26 PM (/HDaX)

237 I'm sure NBC could find a glue sniffer who's funnier than Colbert.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at July 28, 2025 03:26 PM (kTd/k)

238
See also AOC.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 28, 2025 03:22 PM (Vvm2m)

Cute in college. Otherwise eh.

Her demeanor and a voice that could char a chicken doesn't help her.

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2025 03:26 PM (7HpjT)

239 This all said, imo the real innovative stories are being told in video gaming.

I'm replaying Jedi Survivor and it tells a Star Wars story much better and more engaging than Disney ever could.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 28, 2025 03:27 PM (PzXaK)

240 HJB News

London Mayor Sadiq Khan said Donald Trumps remarks today were racist, Islamophobic and anti-Muslim. It comes after the American president said today that the London mayor was a nasty person and does a terrible job in the capital city London

Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 28, 2025 03:27 PM (sIVhu)

241 Speaking of protests.

Seattle hasn’t had nearly the violence or destruction I was hoping for. There’s actually been very little. Yes, there was some tagging of the Federal Building, some broken windows and a garbage dumpster set on fire in the middle of the street in the early days of the ICE protests, but since then……. Very quiet.

The news was reporting two different Hispanic/Latino festivals were canceled this summer due to “fear.” Whatever. LEAVE.

The mayor and the Governor are all on board with “fighting the administration in every way they can.” But real people seem to be getting on with enjoying the summer. I dunno. I just live here.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 28, 2025 03:27 PM (W2Pud)

242 Leno said such conflicts are exactly why he pointedly avoided partisan political humor during his 22 years as the king of late night -- with one analysis cited by Trulio showing he made fun of both sides of the aisle in equal measure throughout his career.

-----------------

"NO KINGS OF LATE NIGHT!"

Posted by: ShainS -- The Marshall Plan is MORTE! at July 28, 2025 03:28 PM (8J7VP)

243
Television as we have known it for more than 75 years in America affirmatively is going extinct

============

This is rather amazing. I don't know if I've ever been around to watch a whole institution die out. Something that occupied a huge piece of the American mind and way of life. Like people will watch 1960s and 1970s period-piece movies (if they're still made!) about this thing called network television that existed for about a hundred years and then got technologied out.

As ace would ask, Is this something?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 28, 2025 03:28 PM (lCaJd)

244 241 The news was reporting two different Hispanic/Latino festivals were canceled this summer due to “fear.” Whatever. LEAVE.

The mayor and the Governor are all on board with “fighting the administration in every way they can.” But real people seem to be getting on with enjoying the summer. I dunno. I just live here.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 28, 2025 03:27 PM (W2Pud)

======

Cutting off fed grant funds and actually arresting troublemakers on terrorism charges has an effect.

Weird.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 03:28 PM (GBKbO)

245 Ringo is great. His concerts still rock. An excellent drummer who was self deprecating, never felt pressure to compete with peers or the lads in the band.

He rode the waves through oceans of time like a backwater British Jewish surfer dude.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 28, 2025 03:28 PM (wBaIH)

246 I think TV and broadcasting was mortally wounded as soon as "reality TV" became a thing. Reality TV is very easy and cheap to film, easy to roll into new seasons, and easily cancellable if it doesn't hit with audiences. I think that was the beginning of the end of all but the most popular big-budget scripted shows.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 03:28 PM (iFTx/)

247 The wit and wisdom of Chuckie Cheese Schumer.
0Chuck Schumer@SenSchumer
Trump's first 100 days in office have been a failure.
Failure on the economy
Failure to lower costs
Failure on foreign policy
Failure on democracy
Failure everywhere you look

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 28, 2025 03:28 PM (L/fGl)

248 Shows his ignorance of international law and the rules of warfare. Hamas put themselves in the group that can be shot down like dogs.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 28, 2025 03:25 PM (8avO+)
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They hide among their civilian population, they don't wear uniforms, they stash munitions dumps under schools and hospitals.

If anybody tells me the GC applies to them, they're full of shit.

Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2025 03:28 PM (krQz2)

249 "I don't understand why you would alienate one particular group, you know, or just don't do it at all,

You really need to be deftly unaware of what’s going on to even make that kind of statement. The major media networks are funded by a bunch of left wing interests. They were also receiving laundered funds from the government. They’ve purposely chosen hosts who are true believers. It’s beyond question that some of them have been linked to the intelligence agencies.

-----------

Its a conclusion I reached about a year ago. These "corporate entities" aren't *really* stand-alone(s). Instead, they are the "marketing department" of our betters, who are seeking to create Utopia for the 1000 or so of them they consider worthy. "Marketing departments" aren't expected to turn a profit--by definition they exist as a business expense. Those running these networks pay lip service to the bottom line, but they know their job--they are merely the marketing department of a grander scheme.

Posted by: Crusader at July 28, 2025 03:28 PM (TN0g+)

250 All the world’s indeed a stage and we are merely players. Performers and portrayers.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 28, 2025 03:23 PM (u73oe)

Each another's audience outside the gilded cage

Posted by: Living in the limelight at July 28, 2025 03:28 PM (TbWk/)

251 London Mayor Sadiq Khan said Donald Trumps remarks today were racist, Islamophobic and anti-Muslim. It comes after the American president said today that the London mayor was a nasty person and does a terrible job in the capital city London
Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 28, 2025 03:27 PM (sIVhu)

Eat a dick up, mutherf*cker.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 03:29 PM (Zz0t1)

252 TBF would anyone notice if Seattle burned any more? You can only do so much damage before you hit the limit.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 28, 2025 03:29 PM (Vvm2m)

253 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 28, 2025 03:28 PM (lCaJd)

TV and movies as you know it will both be gone in the age of bespoke entertainment. It's coming sooner than you think.

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2025 03:29 PM (7HpjT)

254 Two leading human rights organisations based in Israel, B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights, say Israel is committing genocide

Funded by the EU:

B'Tselem describes itself as an independent NGO, "funded by contributions from foundations in Europe and North America... and by private individuals in Israel and abroad", and by the governments of some EU countries and the European Commission.

According to B'Tselem's 2016 financial report, they had received NIS 9,549,286 in donations, of which NIS 4,665,144 was received from foreign governmental bodies.

I bet they were getting USAID money as well.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 28, 2025 03:29 PM (xTIDn)

255 ace needs to come up with his own 'cruelty'
YooToob channel. I would tune in.

Posted by: Life of Wryly at July 28, 2025 03:29 PM (ycs3a)

256 Chuck Schumer@SenSchumer
Trump's first 100 days in office have been a failure.
Failure on the economy
Failure to lower costs
Failure on foreign policy
Failure on democracy
Failure everywhere you look
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 28, 2025 03:28 PM (L/fGl)

Lying sacks of shit gotta lie.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 03:29 PM (Zz0t1)

257 Posted by: wth at July 28, 2025 03:20 PM (UjdFS)

I am not endorsing plastic surgery for 82 year olds. Just saying it was done well from what I can see, but I think that hair coloring for 82 year olds is a bit odd as well, unless you're an actress trying to play younger parts.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2025 03:29 PM (2GCMq)

258 Give Behar some credit. She survived the double Whammy of the demise of Vaudeville/Depression just fine.

Posted by: Seasoned Citizen at July 28, 2025 03:30 PM (G5+As)

259 London Mayor Sadiq Khan said Donald Trumps remarks today were racist, Islamophobic and anti-Muslim. It comes after the American president said today that the London mayor was a nasty person and does a terrible job in the capital city London
Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 28, 2025 03:27 PM (sIVhu)

Saying you suck is hardly racist Khan. And you didn't claim he was inaccurate, did you?

Posted by: Oldcat at July 28, 2025 03:30 PM (8avO+)

260 256 Chuck Schumer@SenSchumer
Trump's first 100 days in office have been a failure.
Failure on the economy
Failure to lower costs
Failure on foreign policy
Failure on democracy
Failure everywhere you look
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 28, 2025 03:28 PM (L/fGl)

"He's right!!!"

--Glenn Kessler

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 28, 2025 03:30 PM (PzXaK)

261 Have a great afternoon everyone

Posted by: Skip at July 28, 2025 03:30 PM (+qU29)

262 i think it was matt walsh who said that colbert wasn't really fired, are you really fired if you get to keep the really high paying job for another nine months?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 28, 2025 03:30 PM (CWTWj)

263 president said today that the London mayor was a nasty person and does a terrible job in the capital city London
Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 28, 2025 03:27 PM (sIVhu)

Why doesn't Trump ever talk that way about white people?

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2025 03:31 PM (7HpjT)

264 They ruined a&e and bravo with this carp

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 28, 2025 03:31 PM (dMwf/)

265 No Sadiq it's not any of those things , you're just a whiny little bitch

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 28, 2025 03:31 PM (hIY2p)

266 TBF would anyone notice if Seattle burned any more? You can only do so much damage before you hit the limit.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 28, 2025 03:29 PM (Vvm2m)

Notice? Maybe.

Care? No.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 28, 2025 03:31 PM (8avO+)

267 The mayor of London is an asshole. A well known asshole. Looks greasy and smelly too.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 28, 2025 03:31 PM (wBaIH)

268 >>>To me that is the stupidest Star Trek movie yet. I couldn't suspend an ounce of belief.

i didn't like it but this part was funny:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPDwCGhhnd4

Posted by: ace at July 28, 2025 03:31 PM (KRtlO)

269 Years ago I unfortunately had to travel through the Port Authority bus terminal in NYC. There was this one homeless guy I would always give a few bucks to. But he would always give me a joke for the day. Something simple, like a knock-knock joke.

That guy was more hilarious then anything on tv.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 28, 2025 03:31 PM (l3sRd)

270 Have you all heard about the Tea App data breach?

Seems a bunch of women launched an app on a "coding for beginners" site, left it on test mode and some guy was able to add his code to the app and download the entire data base.
User names, location, address and even photos of their driver's license.

It was a "women's safety" app that was supposed to be a "safe space" for women to verify prospective dates; red flags, etc.
And quickly devolved into revenge posts for jilted hoes.

And it's likely a whole bunch of them are going to face criminal charges for publicly disclosing private and derogatory info about men.

Anyway, related, with AI, soon your entire online history will be scoured and collated.
And, for here, professional protestors, already being unmasked, will be in a public database. Searchable by photo match.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 28, 2025 03:31 PM (lDIPK)

271 "Its a conclusion I reached about a year ago. These "corporate entities" aren't *really* stand-alone(s). Instead, they are the "marketing department" of our betters, who are seeking to create Utopia for the 1000 or so of them they consider worthy. "Marketing departments" aren't expected to turn a profit--by definition they exist as a business expense. Those running these networks pay lip service to the bottom line, but they know their job--they are merely the marketing department of a grander scheme.
Posted by: Crusader"

And Trump winning made that business expense expendable.

Posted by: eleven at July 28, 2025 03:32 PM (fV+MH)

272 Failure everywhere you look
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 28, 2025 03:28 PM (L/fGl)

Lying sacks of shit gotta lie.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 03:29 PM (Zz0t1)

Also "Failure to grill hamburgers LIKE A BOSS.

Posted by: Senator Schumer's Media Intern (don't hate, it's my job) at July 28, 2025 03:32 PM (PiwSw)

273 British savers are increasingly losing trust in banks, with new research revealing that many are unaware of a crucial legal detail.

The study, commissioned by gold-based savings platform TallyMoney, found that around 75 per cent of people believe they still own their money once it’s deposited, but in reality, banks become the legal owners.

Posted by: SMOD at July 28, 2025 03:32 PM (RHGPo)

274 I have to admit that I laughed at "Mango Mussolini."

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at July 28, 2025 03:32 PM (evI/1)

275 Couple dozen demonstrators? Sounds lkke a Biden or Kamala rally.

Posted by: Darth Randall at July 28, 2025 03:32 PM (kUZOt)

276 255 ace needs to come up with his own 'cruelty'
YooToob channel. I would tune in.
Posted by: Life of Wryly

Are you nuts? Trying to run video feeds over Minx 0.8 beta is a fool's errand.

Posted by: 1998 Calling at July 28, 2025 03:32 PM (G5+As)

277 Well microsoft updates would a little slower so would amazon deliveries other than that

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 28, 2025 03:32 PM (dMwf/)

278 272 Failure everywhere you look
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 28, 2025 03:28 PM (L/fGl)

Lying sacks of shit gotta lie.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 03:29 PM (Zz0t1)

Also "Failure to grill hamburgers LIKE A BOSS.
Posted by: Senator Schumer's Media Intern (don't hate, it's my job) at July 28, 2025 03:32 PM (PiwSw)

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Grilling cheese on burgers like Sinatra at the Copa.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 03:32 PM (GBKbO)

279 He claims many celebrities aren't even real people, but actors playing roles—pretending to be human.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 28, 2025 03:12 PM (sIVhu)

Some celebrity is definitely manufactured, like the boy bands of the 80s/90s. I don't know if that's what he's referring to. Although it's not extremely far-fetched that the system would co-opt people with a following and prop up their celebrity to keep mindless drones occupied, like Taylor Swift and her throng of emotionally and intellectually underdeveloped middle-aged women fans.

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Someone used Kevin Hart as an example. Nobody tells stories about how "I knew Kevin Hart when he was starting out and grinding the mean streets of mostly empty comedic venues..."--instead, nobody knew Kevin Hart and then suddenly EVERYONE knew Kevin Hart.

Posted by: Crusader at July 28, 2025 03:32 PM (TN0g+)

280 270 Have you all heard about the Tea App data breach?

Seems a bunch of women launched an app on a "coding for beginners" site, left it on test mode and some guy was able to add his code to the app and download the entire data base.
User names, location, address and even photos of their driver's license.

It was a "women's safety" app that was supposed to be a "safe space" for women to verify prospective dates; red flags, etc.
And quickly devolved into revenge posts for jilted hoes.

And it's likely a whole bunch of them are going to face criminal charges for publicly disclosing private and derogatory info about men.

Anyway, related, with AI, soon your entire online history will be scoured and collated.
And, for here, professional protestors, already being unmasked, will be in a public database. Searchable by photo match.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 28, 2025 03:31 PM (lDIPK)

A few days ago Pixxy pointed out that people who are doxxing men are now being doxxed.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 28, 2025 03:32 PM (PzXaK)

281
I wonder if Trump will be allowed to speak in the UK parliament? Starmer probably too terrified to let him!
Posted by: Jmel at July 28, 2025 03:01 PM (bVhJi)

He should do it. And when the commie Labor MPs scream like a bunch of rhesus monkeys in the House of Commons, respond by cutting them off from EVERYTHING. Military tech, legal immigration, intel cooperation, loans etc.

Tell them the spigots go on again when Labor apologizes on live TV and officially starts a crash dental program for the whole population, banning the use of excessive vowels in words (giving the resulting surplus to Wales), and immediate investment of Rowan Atkinson as Duke of Earl, second in line to the British throne (fuck the Saxe-Coburg and Gotha family succession)

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 28, 2025 03:32 PM (y9nCu)

282 All the world’s indeed a stage and we are merely players. Performers and portrayers.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 28, 2025 03:23 PM (u73oe)

Each another's audience outside the gilded cage
Posted by: Living in the limelight at July 28, 2025 03:28 PM (TbWk/)

Looks like I jumped back in here just at the right time!

Posted by: Doof at July 28, 2025 03:32 PM (wkXwO)

283 South Park apparently went after Trump hard.
Dunno. Didn't watch it, haven't watched it for years now.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 28, 2025 03:33 PM (xcxpd)

284 The news was reporting two different Hispanic/Latino festivals were canceled this summer due to “fear.” Whatever. LEAVE.

The mayor and the Governor are all on board with “fighting the administration in every way they can.” But real people seem to be getting on with enjoying the summer. I dunno. I just live here.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 28, 2025 03:27 PM (W2Pud)

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Cutting off fed grant funds and actually arresting troublemakers on terrorism charges has an effect.

Weird.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 03:28 PM (GBKbO)
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Very weird. I can't understand it! I think most if not all of these "festivals" were cancelled out of "fear" alright -- fear of weak attendance, shitty revenue, and no profits. Assuming these festivals actually ever existed, I'll bet any amount of money they all were getting subsidized by USAID or something similar.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 03:33 PM (iFTx/)

285
Grilling cheese on burgers like Sinatra at the Copa.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 03:32 PM (GBKbO)

Showed the wife that image the other day.

"HA! What a dumbass!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 03:33 PM (Zz0t1)

286
Jonathan Capeheart, Don Lemon , Jim Acosta, Glenn Kessler, Jen Rubin, F Chuck Todd, the CBS anchor Steven Colbert and many more who tortured Trump during his first term are unemployed or soon to be so. The media business model and leftist propaganda ministers are going , going, gone. Schadenfreude on steroids and human growth hormone
Posted by: Smell the Glove

================

Philip Bump, Terry Moran, Joy Ann Reid (alas and predictably, snapped up by CNN), go fight Megyn Kelly for views.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 28, 2025 03:33 PM (lCaJd)

287 252 TBF would anyone notice if Seattle burned any more? You can only do so much damage before you hit the limit.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

I would notice.

The city just opened another park on the waterfront. It is beautiful. I must say, they have done a wonderful job revitalizing the waterfront. There’s tons of tourists and art and playstuctures for kids, all linked together by walkways and a bicycle path. It’s extraordinary.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 28, 2025 03:33 PM (W2Pud)

288 Even TV commercials have become almost 100% DEI.

Over the top DEI. The commercial that I knew was a sign that advertising was taken over by the woke was The Coopertone Suntan lotion ( sun protection now) commercial in which the main character was a black girl.

Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2025 03:34 PM (VofaG)

289 BREAKING - Retarded judge issues nationwide funding edict that Planned Parenthood must be taxpayer dollars for abortions.

Posted by: Operator Error at July 28, 2025 03:34 PM (c4kCh)

290 This is rather amazing. I don't know if I've ever been around to watch a whole institution die out. Something that occupied a huge piece of the American mind and way of life.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

—

I’d argue music was more of a foundational change than TV.

Music fundamentally changed going from physically going to stores to buy records and tapes and CDs to streaming. No more buying CD players or any hardware. An entire industry went away. Network TV to streaming is less of a change. You’re still watching TV just the content is delivered differently. Fundamentally not much is different for the end consumer.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 28, 2025 03:34 PM (Vvm2m)

291 289 BREAKING - Retarded judge issues nationwide funding edict that Planned Parenthood must be taxpayer dollars for abortions.
Posted by: Operator Error at July 28, 2025 03:34 PM (c4kCh)

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It's the same injunction from last week just with renewed reasoning. Which is stupid.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 03:34 PM (GBKbO)

292 258 Give Behar some credit. She survived the double Whammy of the demise of Vaudeville/Depression just fine.
Posted by: Seasoned Citizen at July 28, 2025 03:30 PM (G5+As)

What am I, chopped liver?

Posted by: Taylor Lorenz at July 28, 2025 03:34 PM (PiwSw)

293 Ace would probably have to procure double the hampsters and squirrels to run a Youtube channel.

Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2025 03:34 PM (krQz2)

294 South Park apparently went after Trump hard.
Dunno. Didn't watch it, haven't watched it for years now.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 28, 2025 03:33 PM (xcxpd)

They had him in bed with Satan and showed his tiny penis a lot, so I've heard.

Real cutting edge stuff.

I mean, the last one they had in bed with Satan was Saddam Hussein. Now you know what they think about Trump.

When they did Owebama, he was calm, cool and collected.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 03:35 PM (Zz0t1)

295 92 We need comebacks from Joe Bob Briggs and Elvira Mistress of the Night!
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 28, 2025 03:05 PM (PzXaK)

Elvira would be right in Sydney Sweeney’s (motor) boathouse.

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 28, 2025 03:35 PM (EtNJx)

296 >>Years ago I unfortunately had to travel through the Port Authority bus terminal in NYC. There was this one homeless guy I would always give a few bucks to. But he would always give me a joke for the day. Something simple, like a knock-knock joke.

There was a homeless guy living in Grand Central Station that played guitar and wrote poetry. He was truly a gifted musician. I used to buy him a meal and chat with him every time I came through.

He was nuttier than squirrel shit. But, god damn he could play guitar.

Posted by: garrett at July 28, 2025 03:35 PM (oSEaw)

297 Over the top DEI. The commercial that I knew was a sign that advertising was taken over by the woke was The Coopertone Suntan lotion ( sun protection now) commercial in which the main character was a black girl.

Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2025 03:34 PM (VofaG)

My favorite is still Subaru. Where every driver is a POC out camping or surfing or hiking. When in reality 99.98% of people doing that are white, as are Subaru owners.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 28, 2025 03:35 PM (Vvm2m)

298 president said today that the London mayor was a nasty person and does a terrible job in the capital city London
Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 28, 2025 03:27 PM (sIVhu)

Why doesn't Trump ever talk that way about white people?
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Aren't Rosie and Indian Liz and Sleepy Joe white?

Posted by: Crusader at July 28, 2025 03:35 PM (TN0g+)

299 Have you all heard about the Tea App data breach?

It was a "women's safety" app that was supposed to be a "safe space" for women to verify prospective dates; red flags, etc.
And quickly devolved into revenge posts for jilted hoes.

And it's likely a whole bunch of them are going to face criminal charges for publicly disclosing private and derogatory info about men.

Anyway, related, with AI, soon your entire online history will be scoured and collated.
And, for here, professional protestors, already being unmasked, will be in a public database. Searchable by photo match.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 28, 2025 03:31 PM (lDIPK)

A few days ago Pixxy pointed out that people who are doxxing men are now being doxxed.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 28, 2025 03:32 PM (PzXaK)
_________
You'd have to have a heart of stone not to laugh at these ditzy broads! In fairness, though, the "Tea" app isn't nuts. I get the appeal of having good intel on a prospective date. But how was this app ever gonna be anything other than man-bashing and revenge porn?

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 03:36 PM (iFTx/)

300 I still like the Fanta Menace.

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2025 03:36 PM (7HpjT)

301
Over the top DEI. The commercial that I knew was a sign that advertising was taken over by the woke was The Coopertone Suntan lotion ( sun protection now) commercial in which the main character was a black girl.

Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2025 03:34 PM (VofaG)

Black men are awesome and white men are bumbling idiots that can't do anything without the guidance of a strong black woman.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 03:36 PM (Zz0t1)

302 To be fair, Seneca was talking about a very different kind of show, but it still seems to apply:

"There is nothing so ruinous to good character as to idle away one's time at some spectacle. Vices have a way of creeping in because of the feeling of pleasure that it brings."

Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 28, 2025 03:36 PM (vd6bO)

303 Looks like I jumped back in here just at the right time!
Posted by: Doof at July 28, 2025 03:32 PM (wkXwO)

——————

Yes, we’ve moved on from Colbert and are now discussing shitty rock bands.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 28, 2025 03:37 PM (u73oe)

304 Juxtapose these protests with various protests done during the late night wars. They weren't really protests per se, but people definitely fell into different camps. Leno, Letterman, Conan. But it was all about who was the funniest. Even Leno had people defending his humor. Not so here. It is all just a proxy against Trump. That's what these "comics" have been reduced to. They are mere proxy battles.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at July 28, 2025 03:37 PM (sX1BW)

305 Aren't Rosie and Indian Liz and Sleepy Joe white?
Posted by: Crusader at July 28, 2025 03:35 PM (TN0g+)

Tony Joe White >>>>> Sleepy Joe White

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 03:37 PM (Zz0t1)

306 Leno was a big Clinton supporter yet eviscerated him with his political humor. Because he understood that in good comedy, everyone and everything is a target.

Damn I miss Leno.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2025 03:37 PM (Pce4l)

307 "When NBC demanded cuts at the Tonight Show, due to its falling ratings, Jay Leno famously gave up $10 million of his own salary to keep the entire staff employed.

So far I haven't heard Stephen Colbert offering to take the Jay Leno Challenge."

Even if Colbert gave up his entire salary, the show would still be $25 million in the red. That's more than just trimming the fat, we're talking full blown amputations.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 28, 2025 03:38 PM (Jo30a)

308 I still like the Fanta Menace.
Posted by: ... at July 28, 2025 03:36 PM (7HpjT)

Yeah that one is actually clever and funny.

Posted by: Doof at July 28, 2025 03:38 PM (wkXwO)

309 According to commercials, only black people do laundry, wash dishes or mop floors. Seems kinda rayciss. But what do I know?

Posted by: Mike at Werk at July 28, 2025 03:38 PM (PSEDc)

310 Here is something I don’t think many are thinking about: if the current model of broadcast TV is collapsing, what of the local affiliates? Do they fold, or evolve, or…?

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2025 03:38 PM (Pce4l)

311 Its a conclusion I reached about a year ago. These "corporate entities" aren't *really* stand-alone(s). Instead, they are the "marketing department" of our betters, who are seeking to create Utopia for the 1000 or so of them they consider worthy. "Marketing departments" aren't expected to turn a profit--by definition they exist as a business expense. Those running these networks pay lip service to the bottom line, but they know their job--they are merely the marketing department of a grander scheme.
Posted by: Crusader at July 28, 2025 03:28 PM (TN0g+)

While that's true, it's also true that there is no reason they couldn't propagandize / market to us using GOOD television shows with good actors, writing, and plots. In fact, that would likely be more effective since people would be more likely to watch it.

They're just not competent enough.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 28, 2025 03:38 PM (uCjyK)

312 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 03:35 PM (Zz0t1)

I'm a big animation fan but I never got the love for South Park. I just don't have the same sense of humor as those guys. Even when they hit the Left hard I didn't find it funny.

Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2025 03:38 PM (VofaG)

313 I am surprised that not one of CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN etc have thought about doing actual news and real entertainment. Seems to be a real open market opportunity for the first one that breaks.

Posted by: jhawk90 at July 28, 2025 03:39 PM (ggOdn)

314 It's the same injunction from last week just with renewed reasoning. Which is stupid.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer

So, just stupid, not retarded?

Posted by: Operator Error at July 28, 2025 03:39 PM (c4kCh)

315 They'll honestly, with a straight face, claim this is censorship.... That doesn't take effect for 6 months. That's some shitty censorship.

They should be happy, as I have no problem with these propagandist for foreign billionaires getting the Siberia treatment.

Posted by: Rbastid at July 28, 2025 03:39 PM (j9nHQ)

316
He claims many celebrities aren't even real people, but actors playing roles—pretending to be human.
Posted by: Mister Ghost

===============

The same thing happened with "prodigy" "authors" and politicians like AOC and Ilhan, who both came out of nowhere. People have discovered the ability to fool the masses by throwing massive corporate or NGO backing behind someone who looks the part. But it blows up if there's really no there there. Read up on Kaavya Viswanathan for a "how it started" and "how it went" story.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 28, 2025 03:39 PM (lCaJd)

317 312 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 03:35 PM (Zz0t1)

I'm a big animation fan but I never got the love for South Park. I just don't have the same sense of humor as those guys. Even when they hit the Left hard I didn't find it funny.

Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2025 03:38 PM (VofaG)

When they hit on something, nobody does it better.

That said, I haven't watched in years.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 28, 2025 03:40 PM (KbCG3)

318 President Donald Trump dropped a truth bomb on Monday that Democrats desperately trying to weaponize the Jeffrey Epstein files. Trump made clear that the files were handled by partisan operatives out to get him. “Those files were run by the worst scum on earth. They were run by Comey. They were run by Garland. They were run by Biden, and all of the people that actually ran the government, including the autopen,” he said. “If they had anything, I assume they would have released it.”

Posted by: SMOD at July 28, 2025 03:40 PM (RHGPo)

319 Yes, we’ve moved on from Colbert and are now discussing shitty rock bands.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 28, 2025 03:37 PM (u73oe)

Ha! Please remind me again of your top 2-3 favorites?

Posted by: Doof at July 28, 2025 03:40 PM (wkXwO)

320 >> Some leftists running to the fainting couch over Colbert were pushing to cancel Adam Carolla for going against the state approved Covid message.

They tried to cancel Joe Rogan for political reasons. Megyn Kelly, Tucker, and Rosanne got fired for political reasons. They bankrupted Mike Lindell and Rudy G over political reasons. They banned Trump from the biggest speech platforms for political reasons and censored millions of other people for political reasons. The left cheered for all of that, so they can go fuck themselves.

Posted by: the dandy at July 28, 2025 03:40 PM (8l8nW)

321
I'm a big animation fan but I never got the love for South Park. I just don't have the same sense of humor as those guys. Even when they hit the Left hard I didn't find it funny.
Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2025 03:38 PM (VofaG)

Like Howard Stern, the show entertained me for a period, but I haven't really found it entertaining in quite some time.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 03:41 PM (Zz0t1)

322 This is rather amazing. I don't know if I've ever been around to watch a whole institution die out

Payphones
Land lines
Newspaper boxes
~~Vinyl~~
Pagers
Cassettes
Columbia Record and Tape Club

Posted by: Lists R Us at July 28, 2025 03:41 PM (D0HYP)

323 My favorite is still Subaru. Where every driver is a POC out camping or surfing or hiking. When in reality 99.98% of people doing that are white, as are Subaru owners.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 28, 2025 03:35 PM (Vvm2m)

They make cars?

I thought Subaru was nothing more than the United Way. Every time I see a Subaru (or Pleiades) ad, it’s about charity, not anything else.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2025 03:41 PM (Pce4l)

324
well, what's new is that the long-predicted future is now here in the present.
Posted by: ace

And tomorrow the future will be yesterday.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 28, 2025 03:41 PM (63Dwl)

325 Just a gentle suggestion....

Let's stop calling ourselves "half the country" because I do believe, on the basis of issues, we are 3/4 of the country.

Not too many people want illegal aliens by the millions or a sky-high debt or relentless attacks on American culture -- or any of the other crap the left-wingers peddle.

Way more than half.

Posted by: Beverly at July 28, 2025 03:41 PM (Epeb0)

326 While that's true, it's also true that there is no reason they couldn't propagandize / market to us using GOOD television shows with good actors, writing, and plots. In fact, that would likely be more effective since people would be more likely to watch it.

They're just not competent enough.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 28, 2025 03:38 PM (uCjyK)

Unless the purpose of TV and news and movies and everything else is only to make sure the country divides and stays divided. Give people something to unite around and they might start getting uppity.

In which case they would almost never produce anything particularly good anymore, even by accident. Especially by accident. In fact the distinct lack of accidentally good content forms the very shape of my theory.

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2025 03:41 PM (7HpjT)

327 275 Couple dozen demonstrators? Sounds lkke a Biden or Kamala rally.

ikke ikke ptang neewou wum ping!

Posted by: anachronda, who recently said "ni!" at July 28, 2025 03:41 PM (v3pYe)

328 What is the protest meant to do exactly? the show is losing $40 million per year.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 28, 2025 03:42 PM (gDhA9)

329 313 I am surprised that not one of CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN etc have thought about doing actual news and real entertainment. Seems to be a real open market opportunity for the first one that breaks.
Posted by: jhawk90 at July 28, 2025 03:39 PM (ggOdn)

You would think that, but how do you make money?

Every time you report a story "straight", you're pissing off either the team R people or the team D people, and if you were to honestly report on every story, you'd quickly piss off the major advertisers / owners / banks that are major stockholders / etc.

Small YouTube channels work, but you're always at risk of being cancelled or demonetized.

But I don't know how you scale that up for a traditional TV channel. I don't think it's possible.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 28, 2025 03:42 PM (uCjyK)

330 I lost interest in tv some time ago. I moved the tv but haven't hooked it up. Not really interested in movies and lost interest in You Tube.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 28, 2025 03:42 PM (TEi+a)

331
They tried to cancel Joe Rogan for political reasons. Megyn Kelly, Tucker, and Rosanne got fired for political reasons. They bankrupted Mike Lindell and Rudy G over political reasons. They banned Trump from the biggest speech platforms for political reasons and censored millions of other people for political reasons. The left cheered for all of that, so they can go fuck themselves.
Posted by: the dandy at July 28, 2025 03:40 PM (8l8nW)

The left is evil and should be treated as such.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 03:42 PM (Zz0t1)

332 324 well, what's new is that the long-predicted future is now here in the present.
Posted by: ace

And tomorrow the future will be yesterday.

what is, was. what was, will be. what will be was, but will be again.

Posted by: the wisdom of arnold horschack at July 28, 2025 03:42 PM (v3pYe)

333 Just kidding, Doof. I like Rush. But then I like the Eagles too so…

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 28, 2025 03:43 PM (u73oe)

334 "But we've always had the First Amendment, and now Mango Mussolini is trying to take that from us," he said, referring to a derogatory nickname for President Trump.

--

Cancelling the show of an unfunny, nasty garbage person who was losing the network millions has exactly what in common with his 1A rights being squashed? Are these seriously the densest, dumbest people on the planet? Please tell me they are.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 28, 2025 03:43 PM (qBdHI)

335 I lost interest in tv some time ago. I moved the tv but haven't hooked it up. Not really interested in movies and lost interest in You Tube.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 28, 2025 03:42 PM (TEi+a)
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Same here. I have hundreds of movies and television shows on DVD/Blu-Ray but I hardly ever watch any of them.

Books are where it's at!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 28, 2025 03:43 PM (7fElN)

336 328 What is the protest meant to do exactly? the show is losing $40 million per year.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 28, 2025 03:42 PM (gDhA9)

They're angry that a rich, straight white dude won't be able to continue getting rich for his ability to read scripted things into a camera.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 28, 2025 03:43 PM (KbCG3)

337 Unless the purpose of TV and news and movies and everything else is only to make sure the country divides and stays divided. Give people something to unite around and they might start getting uppity.

In which case they would almost never produce anything particularly good anymore, even by accident. Especially by accident. In fact the distinct lack of accidentally good content forms the very shape of my theory.
Posted by: ... at July 28, 2025 03:41 PM (7HpjT)

That's a fair point.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 28, 2025 03:43 PM (uCjyK)

338 Like Howard Stern, the show entertained me for a period, but I haven't really found it entertaining in quite some time.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 03:41 PM (Zz0t1)

I didn't like Howard Stern but I loved his show. And then he personally got so bad he ruined the show.

Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2025 03:44 PM (VofaG)

339 My favorite is still Subaru. Where every driver is a POC out camping or surfing or hiking. When in reality 99.98% of people doing that are white, as are Subaru owners.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Black don't swim
- shit ome huxtable kid said

Posted by: Operator Error at July 28, 2025 03:44 PM (c4kCh)

340 Coal Burt will not make it to next May. He's already on thin ice with the network executives with his antics. If I was them I'd yank him off the air (but not fire him) and rotate in a bunch of guest hosts. Let them try new stuff and maybe actually turn the show around.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at July 28, 2025 03:44 PM (V362x)

341 Over the top DEI. The commercial that I knew was a sign that advertising was taken over by the woke was The Coopertone Suntan lotion ( sun protection now) commercial in which the main character was a black girl.

Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2025 03:34 PM (VofaG)

My favorite is still Subaru. Where every driver is a POC out camping or surfing or hiking. When in reality 99.98% of people doing that are white, as are Subaru owners.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 28, 2025 03:35 PM (Vvm2m)
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Which is odd, because the left insists that blacks don't camp or surf or hike because RACISM. Not joking.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 03:44 PM (iFTx/)

342 Wow. The sheer blatant inaccuracy of news media is impressive. They keep running the story on how a judge blocked the "Trump administration from defunding Planned Parenthood", but it was a fucking LAW, passed by Congress.

Get like one fucking thing right in your life, okay media?

Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2025 03:44 PM (krQz2)

343 What is the protest meant to do exactly?

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How do you protest Trump in 2025, you support Colbert.

Sad really.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at July 28, 2025 03:44 PM (sX1BW)

344 Yesterday's gone.

Tomorrow never knows.

Today will never be the same again.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 03:44 PM (Zz0t1)

345 Remember when everyone had a landline phone? And then one day we didn’t.

Shit changes. TV is nothing special.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 28, 2025 03:44 PM (Vvm2m)

346 While that's true, it's also true that there is no reason they couldn't propagandize / market to us using GOOD television shows with good actors, writing, and plots. In fact, that would likely be more effective since people would be more likely to watch it.

They're just not competent enough.
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No. We just want you to suffer.

Posted by: The banality of evil is part of the kink at July 28, 2025 03:44 PM (B2PWb)

347
A few days ago Pixxy pointed out that people who are doxxing men are now being doxxed.
Posted by: WitchDoktor

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Sort of. As I understand it, the doxxing of lousy men was entirely in-app, not broadcast to the internet. To me, this is mainly a story about sloppy coding and how everyone should beware of how they share their personal info.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 28, 2025 03:44 PM (lCaJd)

348 Raise your hand if you still have cable

Posted by: weew at July 28, 2025 03:44 PM (l/8y7)

349 324
well, what's new is that the long-predicted future is now here in the present.
Posted by: ace

And tomorrow the future will be yesterday

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

Posted by: NP at July 28, 2025 03:45 PM (HcoTw)

350 I didn't like Howard Stern but I loved his show. And then he personally got so bad he ruined the show.

Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2025 03:44 PM (VofaG)

Agreed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 03:45 PM (Zz0t1)

351 Just kidding, Doof. I like Rush. But then I like the Eagles too so…
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 28, 2025 03:43 PM (u73oe)

Fair enough.

Opinion - The Eagles aren't a rock band. They're a 70's / early 80s pop band with 3 or 4 rock songs. Change my mind.

Posted by: Doof at July 28, 2025 03:45 PM (wkXwO)

352 347 Sort of. As I understand it, the doxxing of lousy men was entirely in-app, not broadcast to the internet. To me, this is mainly a story about sloppy coding and how everyone should beware of how they share their personal info.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 28, 2025 03:44 PM (lCaJd)

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Digital privacy is a myth.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 03:45 PM (GBKbO)

353 TV? Newly dead?

TV has been dead for decades.

It's only now that the networks are beginning ti realize it.

Posted by: zombie at July 28, 2025 03:45 PM (pMi6S)

354 My favorite is still Subaru. Where every driver is a POC out camping or surfing or hiking. When in reality 99.98% of people doing that are white, as are Subaru owners.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

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Wait, isn't "Subaru owner" slang for lesbian?

Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2025 03:45 PM (krQz2)

355 >>Raise your hand if you still have cable

The only reason there is still a TV on my wall is that I need a second set of hands to remove it, and I would have to patch some drywall holes when I do.

Posted by: garrett at July 28, 2025 03:46 PM (oSEaw)

356
What do we want? Col-bert!!

When do we want him?? We'll get back to you!!!

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2025 03:46 PM (7HpjT)

357 309 According to commercials, only black people do laundry, wash dishes or mop floors. Seems kinda rayciss. But what do I know?
Posted by: Mike at Werk at July 28, 2025 03:38 PM (PSEDc)

Apparently they smell bad, too, considering all those laundry perfume adds feature big black women and men.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 28, 2025 03:47 PM (1Gsou)

358 What is the protest meant to do exactly? the show is losing $40 million per year.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 28, 2025 03:42 PM (gDhA9)

They're angry that a rich, straight white dude won't be able to continue getting rich for his ability to read scripted things into a camera.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 28, 2025 03:43 PM (KbCG3)

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It's AstroTurfed Manufactured-Faux-Outrage Grift all the way down ... very meta!

Posted by: ShainS -- The Marshall Plan is MORTE! at July 28, 2025 03:47 PM (8J7VP)

359 294 South Park apparently went after Trump hard.
Dunno. Didn't watch it, haven't watched it for years now.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 28, 2025 03:33 PM (xcxpd)

They had him in bed with Satan and showed his tiny penis a lot, so I've heard.

Real cutting edge stuff.

I mean, the last one they had in bed with Satan was Saddam Hussein. Now you know what they think about Trump.

When they did Owebama, he was calm, cool and collected.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 03:35 PM (Zz0t1)

Ugh, lame.
I thought they had Mr. Garrison as Trump. That ought to be insult enough.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 28, 2025 03:47 PM (xcxpd)

360 Remember when everyone had a landline phone? And then one day we didn’t.

Shit changes. TV is nothing special.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 28, 2025 03:44 PM (Vvm2m)
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The last maker of buggy whips probably made one hell of a buggy whip.

Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2025 03:47 PM (krQz2)

361 Wait, isn't "Subaru owner" slang for lesbian?
Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2025 03:45 PM (krQz2)

Yes, and there is usually a huge intact male dog in the back.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 28, 2025 03:47 PM (1Gsou)

362 ---
Wait, isn't "Subaru owner" slang for lesbian?
Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2025 03:45 PM (krQz2)

As coined by our own nurse ratchet, it's a Lezbaru.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 03:47 PM (Zz0t1)

363 Sort of. As I understand it, the doxxing of lousy men was entirely in-app, not broadcast to the internet. To me, this is mainly a story about sloppy coding and how everyone should beware of how they share their personal info.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 28, 2025 03:44 PM (lCaJd)

========

Digital privacy is a myth.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 03:45 PM (GBKbO)
________

If the reports of the personal info that the women had to provide to be part of this app are correct, they are fucking nuts. "Yea, give me your ss number, DNA, bank account info, and HIPA, and we'll let you talk shit about Tyrone."

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 03:47 PM (iFTx/)

364 299 You'd have to have a heart of stone not to laugh at these ditzy broads! In fairness, though, the "Tea" app isn't nuts. I get the appeal of having good intel on a prospective date. But how was this app ever gonna be anything other than man-bashing and revenge porn?

and, apparently, a cautionary tale about relying on vibe coding.

Posted by: anachronda at July 28, 2025 03:48 PM (v3pYe)

365 >This is rather amazing. I don't know if I've ever been around to watch a whole institution die out
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Little Tavern

Posted by: Don Black at July 28, 2025 03:48 PM (AOsQT)

366 I've been stream watching all the Sitcoms I really liked.

Wings
Scrubs
Rules of Engagement
News Radio

Also there are thousands of crappy movies that are free to watch. It's like a treasure hunt discovery when you come across a good one.

Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2025 03:48 PM (VofaG)

367
Ugh, lame.
I thought they had Mr. Garrison as Trump. That ought to be insult enough.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 28, 2025 03:47 PM (xcxpd)

That was first term Trump. Now they've moved up to tiny dick jokes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 03:48 PM (Zz0t1)

368 If I was them I'd yank him off the air (but not fire him) and rotate in a bunch of guest hosts

Put him in a glass isolation booth on stage while the others guest host. Or he can quit and forfeit his pay.

Posted by: Chuck C at July 28, 2025 03:49 PM (D0HYP)

369 Wait, isn't "Subaru owner" slang for lesbian?
Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2025 03:45 PM (krQz2)

I’ve never understood that joke. Go to any area of the country that gets a lot of snow and 1/5 of cars will be Subarus. Or a ski resort parking lot.

Subarus were one of the first AWD cars and pretty cheap, good reliability. So they became kinda the “adventure” car. Go hiking go camping go skiing with it.

It’s always been that to me not a lesbian car.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 28, 2025 03:49 PM (Vvm2m)

370
I'm a big animation fan but I never got the love for South Park. I just don't have the same sense of humor as those guys. Even when they hit the Left hard I didn't find it funny.
Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2025 03:38 PM (VofaG)

SP is funny, but I just never wanted to invest the time in the series. The movie was hilarious though, and Team America is a masterpiece, especially with how Sean Penn bitched about being made fun of, writing them a complaint letter BEFORE SEEING THE MOVIE. Anyone who shows up Sean Penn in his true persona as a humorlessly mewling quim is okay by me.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 28, 2025 03:49 PM (y9nCu)

371 Maybe Colbert can buy a Jacuzzi and share it with Olbermann

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at July 28, 2025 03:49 PM (XLfSN)

372 Do white lesbians do a lot of camping?

Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2025 03:49 PM (krQz2)

373 363 If the reports of the personal info that the women had to provide to be part of this app are correct, they are fucking nuts. "Yea, give me your ss number, DNA, bank account info, and HIPA, and we'll let you talk shit about Tyrone."
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 03:47 PM (iFTx/)

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And Reddit wasn't an option, I guess.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 03:49 PM (GBKbO)

374 In an old episode of Star Trek TNG, three people were unfrozen from the 20th century. One comments what's on TV. Data responds with "that particular form of entertainment did not last much past the 2040s."

Looks like we're right on schedule.

Posted by: Drunken Yoda at July 28, 2025 03:49 PM (ilHZO)

375 179 Two leading human rights organisations based in Israel, B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights, say Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and the country’s western allies have a legal and moral duty to stop it.
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If the Israelis are killing them they are killing an avowed enemy. Good.
They should leave. We should force Sisi to open the gate an help the Israelis usher the Gazans through it. It will not start a war.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 28, 2025 03:49 PM (E7bCG)

376 294 They had him in bed with Satan and showed his tiny penis a lot, so I've heard.

Real cutting edge stuff.

I mean, the last one they had in bed with Satan was Saddam Hussein. Now you know what they think about Trump.

they even used their saddam hussein voice for trump.

Posted by: anachronda at July 28, 2025 03:49 PM (v3pYe)

377 Nazi knock knock joke.

https://is.gd/M0LWjM

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 28, 2025 03:50 PM (L/fGl)

378 That was first term Trump. Now they've moved up to tiny dick jokes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 03:48 PM (Zz0t1)
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For some definition of "up".

Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2025 03:50 PM (krQz2)

379 I date the Death of TV to September 12, 1972, when the first episode of "Maude" debuted.

It was the first show in which an insufferable liberal asshole was celebrated as the hero, instead of being (at least occasionally) mocked.

This consciously-imposed was the beginning of the end for comedy, and of TV itself.

Posted by: zombie at July 28, 2025 03:50 PM (pMi6S)

380 372 Do white lesbians do a lot of camping?

Only once a month..... oh camping

Posted by: NP at July 28, 2025 03:50 PM (HcoTw)

381 I've been stream watching all the Sitcoms I really liked.

Wings
Scrubs
Rules of Engagement
News Radio

Also there are thousands of crappy movies that are free to watch. It's like a treasure hunt discovery when you come across a good one.
Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2025 03:48 PM (VofaG)

Just finished a rewatch of Wings. Bought the DVD box set because many episodes aren't available on streaming. Moved on to Tony Shaloub's next show - Monk. Really enjoying it.

Posted by: Doof at July 28, 2025 03:50 PM (wkXwO)

382 This consciously-imposed bias was...

Posted by: zombie at July 28, 2025 03:51 PM (pMi6S)

383 Wasn't there also some scene of Trump in bed with the Devil?

Like they are recycling their Sadam gag, or something.

Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2025 03:51 PM (krQz2)

384 Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 28, 2025 03:49 PM (y9nCu)

I acknowledge that I'm in the minority. I tried to watch it enough to see if something would change and I'd get it. Never happened.

Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2025 03:51 PM (VofaG)

385 Two leading human rights organisations based in Israel, B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights, say Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and the country’s western allies have a legal and moral duty to stop it.

There's no such thing as a 'palestinian' so pound sand.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 03:51 PM (Zz0t1)

386 Reminds me of teens crying over The Monkeys.

Posted by: Dreamingrobot at July 28, 2025 03:51 PM (EyfuW)

387 348 Raise your hand if you still have cable

that's how i get my internet

Posted by: anachronda at July 28, 2025 03:51 PM (v3pYe)

388 Just finished a rewatch of Wings. Bought the DVD box set because many episodes aren't available on streaming. Moved on to Tony Shaloub's next show - Monk. Really enjoying it.

Posted by: Doof at July 28, 2025 03:50 PM (wkXwO)

Binged Wings a year or so ago.

The idea of sitcom cool was remarkably different in the early 90s.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 28, 2025 03:52 PM (KbCG3)

389 It’s always been that to me not a lesbian car.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 28, 2025 03:49 PM (Vvm2m)

Clearly you have never been to Madison, WI. Not much skiing there, but every third car is Subaru full of lesbians.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 28, 2025 03:52 PM (1Gsou)

390 ‘Baru sold 670k cars last year in the US. Thats a lot of lesbians 🤣

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 28, 2025 03:52 PM (Vvm2m)

391
Not too many people want illegal aliens by the millions or a sky-high debt or relentless attacks on American culture -- or any of the other crap the left-wingers peddle.

Way more than half.
Posted by: Beverly at July 28, 2025 03:41 PM

I suspect a lot of people are afraid to voice their true beliefs publicly, they would be shouted down or cancelled.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 28, 2025 03:52 PM (Cg3Gl)

392
Just finished a rewatch of Wings. Bought the DVD box set because many episodes aren't available on streaming. Moved on to Tony Shaloub's next show - Monk. Really enjoying it.
Posted by: Doof at July 28, 2025 03:50 PM (wkXwO)

There's an OTA channel that runs Wings.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 03:52 PM (Zz0t1)

393 >>>Like Howard Stern, the show entertained me for a period, but I haven't really found it entertaining in quite some time.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

>Is Howard Stern still around? Still a Something? I lost all interest in that crusty old bastard when I was no long required to get caught up in a morning traffic jam on the 405 in 1990s LA.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 28, 2025 03:52 PM (EcGlk)

394
If the reports of the personal info that the women had to provide to be part of this app are correct, they are fucking nuts. "Yea, give me your ss number, DNA, bank account info, and HIPA, and we'll let you talk shit about Tyrone."
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade

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I saw some of the data they had, which included government-issued IDs. I understand having to provide something like that if, e.g., you're paying for digital services and there's a legal obligation to ensure that an individual exists and isn't an AI front for a North Korean op -- but to gossip about Tyrone and store all that on a fecking Firebase database???!!! Jeez, ladies, just start a blog. This app craze is getting silly anyway.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 28, 2025 03:52 PM (lCaJd)

395 Late night entertainment can turn on a dime. Just a few short months ago, Doof was collecting accolades and praise for his Sunday ONT. Now, his content is just an afterthought and a carrier of Piper's Fashion segment.

Posted by: Fashion Plate at July 28, 2025 03:53 PM (G5+As)

396 That was first term Trump. Now they've moved up to tiny dick jokes.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 03:48 PM (Zz0t1)
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I'm surprised that show is still on the air.

It's like The Simpsons...It'll never, ever die.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 28, 2025 03:53 PM (7fElN)

397 Baru sold 670k cars last year in the US. Thats a lot of lesbians 🤣
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 28, 2025 03:52 PM (Vvm2m)

According to TV shows and commercials, everyone is homo, so.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 03:53 PM (Zz0t1)

398
Which is odd, because the left insists that blacks don't camp or surf or hike because RACISM. Not joking.

The trees remind them of lynching.

BTW Bubba Wallace won the Brickyard 400.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 28, 2025 03:53 PM (63Dwl)

399 He has a list of 26 priors including mutilating dead bodies in a Cemetery. He was arrested and charged but was found not guilty by reason of insanity and he was released back onto the streets.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 28, 2025 03:00 PM (sIVhu)

INVOLUNTARY COMMITMENT IS TOO DANGEROUS FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES!!!

Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2025 03:53 PM (D7oie)

400 Just finished a rewatch of Wings. Bought the DVD box set because many episodes aren't available on streaming. Moved on to Tony Shaloub's next show - Monk. Really enjoying it.

Posted by: Doof at July 28, 2025 03:50 PM (wkXwO)
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Stark Raving Mad was his actual next show. I can't remember if it completed a season or not.

Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2025 03:53 PM (krQz2)

401 Posted by: Doof at July 28, 2025 03:50 PM (wkXwO)

I've watched every episode of Monk at least three times just because repeats ran all the time on TV . It was enjoyable. You should next watch Psych.

Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2025 03:53 PM (VofaG)

402 Crystal Bernard was really a cutie.

Posted by: Bulg at July 28, 2025 03:54 PM (77rzZ)

403 Do white lesbians do a lot of camping?
Posted by: Axeman at

They like to look like they do....
Flannel shirts, big compass watches, hiking boots, suberu....

Posted by: Operator Error at July 28, 2025 03:54 PM (c4kCh)

404 The tea app wanted government issued ID to prove the users were women.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 28, 2025 03:54 PM (Vvm2m)

405 Like Howard Stern, the show entertained me for a period, but I haven't really found it entertaining in quite some time.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

>Is Howard Stern still around? Still a Something? I lost all interest in that crusty old bastard when I was no long required to get caught up in a morning traffic jam on the 405 in 1990s LA.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 28, 2025 03:52 PM (EcGlk)
_________

Covid completely broke him to the point where he refused to leave his home for months on end. Not joking.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 03:54 PM (iFTx/)

406 There's an OTA channel that runs Wings.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 03:52 PM (Zz0t1)

Nice. It's always enjoyable!

Posted by: Doof at July 28, 2025 03:54 PM (wkXwO)

407 South Park was one i never really got. Bits and pieces are great, but the whole?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 28, 2025 03:54 PM (zZu0s)

408 Is Howard Stern still around? Still a Something? I lost all interest in that crusty old bastard when I was no long required to get caught up in a morning traffic jam on the 405 in 1990s LA.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 28, 2025 03:52 PM (EcGlk)

I believe he's still under contract with Sirius XM and with your subscription, you've got to pay another $20 a month to listen to him.

Yeah, no. Haven't listened to him since the early oughts when he got bounced from Dallas radio.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 03:55 PM (Zz0t1)

409 What do we want? Col-bert!!

When do we want him?? We'll get back to you!!!

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2025 03:46 PM (7HpjT)

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D-O-Z-Y, You Ain't Got No Alibi ...
You DOZY! Hey Hey Hey DOZY!

Posted by: ShainS -- The Marshall Plan is MORTE! at July 28, 2025 03:55 PM (8J7VP)

410 Covid completely broke him to the point where he refused to leave his home for months on end. Not joking.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 03:54 PM (iFTx/)

He was so terrified to die, he stopped living.

And lost his mind that not everyone felt the same.

He turned into such a weird Karen.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 28, 2025 03:55 PM (KbCG3)

411 Nice. It's always enjoyable!
Posted by: Doof at July 28, 2025 03:54 PM (wkXwO)

Crystal Bernard..........mmmmmmmmmm

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 03:55 PM (Zz0t1)

412 Drew Pavlou
@DrewPavlou

BREAKING: I now face PRISON TIME in Australia for holding a blank sign outside the Chinese Consulate

The LNP conservative controlled Brisbane City Council is now threatening me with arrest and potential jail time for contempt of court unless I pay a $23,000 fine

As a matter of principle I have decided I will peacefully surrender to the Brisbane court on August 6 and accept prison time for contempt of court.

I will go to jail in Australia for the crime of holding a blank sign outside the Chinese Consulate, if this is what the government wants.

Posted by: SMOD at July 28, 2025 03:55 PM (RHGPo)

413 BTW Bubba Wallace won the Brickyard 400.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 28, 2025 03:53 PM (63Dwl)

How did they close the garage door?

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 28, 2025 03:55 PM (1Gsou)

414 Just attempted getting a facebook account. They wanted me to turn on my camera and rotate my head from one side to the other...nah.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 28, 2025 03:55 PM (vd6bO)

415 Stark Raving Mad was his actual next show. I can't remember if it completed a season or not.
Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2025 03:53 PM (krQz2)

Interesting. Will look for it.

Posted by: Doof at July 28, 2025 03:55 PM (wkXwO)

416 Buggy whips are Amish gas pedals.

Posted by: eleven at July 28, 2025 03:56 PM (fV+MH)

417 My car is a Subaru.

But then, I am a lesbian trapped in a man's body.

Posted by: Bulg at July 28, 2025 03:56 PM (77rzZ)

418 Raise your hand if you still have cable

that's how i get my internet
Posted by: anachronda at July 28, 2025 03:51 PM (v3pYe)
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Yeah, I was going to say that. I have DirectTV Streaming, which means my live TV comes from the same place as I do most of my streaming. Plus a theoretically unlimited VR storage.

Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2025 03:56 PM (krQz2)

419
Covid completely broke him to the point where he refused to leave his home for months on end. Not joking.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 03:54 PM (iFTx/)

YEARS not months. He spent 2020 and 2021 (maybe even 2022?) holed up in his home.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 28, 2025 03:56 PM (Vvm2m)

420 BTW Bubba Wallace won the Brickyard 400.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 28, 2025 03:53 PM (63Dwl)

They cheated. That dude is a no talent hack. They gave him the win because his team keeps losing in court against NASCAR.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 03:57 PM (Zz0t1)

421 Crystal Bernard..........mmmmmmmmmm
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 03:55 PM (Zz0t1)

*nods in agreement*

Posted by: Doof at July 28, 2025 03:57 PM (wkXwO)

422 411 Nice. It's always enjoyable!
Posted by: Doof at July 28, 2025 03:54 PM (wkXwO)

Crystal Bernard..........mmmmmmmmmm
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 03:55 PM (Zz0t1)

One of the early Wings episodes had her in this skimpy black dress.

They never tarted her up again. What a shame.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 28, 2025 03:57 PM (KbCG3)

423 never understood that joke. Go to any area of the country that gets a lot of snow and 1/5 of cars will be Subarus. Or a ski resort parking lot.

Subarus were one of the first AWD cars and pretty cheap, good reliability. So they became kinda the “adventure” car. Go hiking go camping go skiing with it.

It’s always been that to me not a lesbian car.
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Go to a Melissa ethridge concert. Every fucking car in the lot is a lezburu

Posted by: The banality of evil is part of the kink at July 28, 2025 03:57 PM (B2PWb)

424 Since Trump’s presidency and into his return, tensions have surged—Trump has publicly accused Powell of “playing politics” and using tariff-induced inflation as an excuse to delay rate cuts.

This debate spilled into the mainstream this morning on CNBC, where panelists talked about domestic growth and rates, leading frustration to apparently spill over with Jim Cramer. "Our biggest problem is we have so much growth that the Fed won't cut...what the f*ck..." Cramer said on live television, before apologizing to viewers.

"Jesus Christ," someone is heard saying in reaction to the comment, as the profanity became contagious.

Posted by: SMOD at July 28, 2025 03:57 PM (RHGPo)

425 Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 28, 2025 03:55 PM (KbCG3)

He blamed COVID, Trump and other COVID sane people for his 90 something year old father's death. What a lunatic.

Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2025 03:57 PM (VofaG)

426 My car is a Subaru.

But then, I am a lesbian trapped in a man's body.
Posted by: Bulg at July 28, 2025 03:56 PM (77rzZ)
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I had a black Subaru legacy that I just loved and loved the look of. It had a cable-driven transmission, so no gear-shifting.

Smooth ride, nice styling (for the time).

Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2025 03:58 PM (krQz2)

427 've watched every episode of Monk at least three times just because repeats ran all the time on TV . It was enjoyable. You should next watch Psych.
Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2025 03:53 PM (VofaG)

Appreciate the suggestion!

Posted by: Doof at July 28, 2025 03:58 PM (wkXwO)

428 BTW Bubba Wallace won the Brickyard 400.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 28, 2025 03:53 PM (63Dwl)

How did they close the garage door?

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 28, 2025 03:55 PM (1Gsou)

He's not hung up on it anymore.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 28, 2025 03:58 PM (i24o9)

429 381 I've been stream watching all the Sitcoms I really liked.

Wings
Scrubs
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News Radio
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Watched them originally. Wings was a little light but they all were OK.
"3rd Rock from the Sun,"
Alien Nation was a daily time waster for me

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 28, 2025 03:58 PM (E7bCG)

430 "I Gotta Own It": Bill Maher Admits He Was Dead Wrong About Trump Tariffs, 'Does Not See A Country In Depression'

Posted by: SMOD at July 28, 2025 03:58 PM (RHGPo)

431 The Subaru = lesbian thing came about because Subaru was the first to market directly to that demographic.

It's a cliche but right often enough to ring true.
Naturally not every Subaru owner is a lesbian any more than ever pickup truck owner is a redneck.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 28, 2025 03:58 PM (xcxpd)

432

I can recall when almost every day of the week in most cities there was live music in many genres, and big concerts with actual live rock bands with live white musicians and no rappers.

Where did that all go?

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at July 28, 2025 03:59 PM (et1vG)

433 He blamed COVID, Trump and other COVID sane people for his 90 something year old father's death. What a lunatic.

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Then, shouldn't he be mad at China?

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at July 28, 2025 03:59 PM (sX1BW)

434 Shit talk from dogs.

https://is.gd/5WlSJ7

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 28, 2025 03:59 PM (L/fGl)

435 Covid completely broke him to the point where he refused to leave his home for months on end. Not joking.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 03:54 PM (iFTx/)

YEARS not months. He spent 2020 and 2021 (maybe even 2022?) holed up in his home.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 28, 2025 03:56 PM (Vvm2m)
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Correct, but I understand he did leave the house -- at his wife's insistence -- once every few months. So I literally meant he would not leave his house for months -- as in staying in the house all day every day for months.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 03:59 PM (iFTx/)

436
He blamed COVID, Trump and other COVID sane people for his 90 something year old father's death. What a lunatic.
Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2025 03:57 PM (VofaG)

He went on a two year tirade that unvaxxed were murdering old people.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 03:59 PM (Zz0t1)

437 One of the early Wings episodes had her in this skimpy black dress.

They never tarted her up again. What a shame.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

She was the type who looked better in jeans, I think.

I never knew she was a singer-songwriter in addition to an actress. Anybody ever hear any of her stuff?

Posted by: Bulg at July 28, 2025 03:59 PM (77rzZ)

438 Tell them the spigots go on again when Labor apologizes on live TV and officially starts a crash dental program for the whole population, banning the use of excessive vowels in words (giving the resulting surplus to Wales), and immediate investment of Rowan Atkinson as Duke of Earl, second in line to the British throne (fuck the Saxe-Coburg and Gotha family succession)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 28, 2025 03:32 PM (y9nCu)

Atkinson would have to be Duke Blackadder.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 28, 2025 03:59 PM (8avO+)

439 I don't have a television. Just my desk top that I watch stuff on Amazon Prime Video and Youtube/Rumble. Listen to podcasts and watch some Late Model(asphalt/dirt) racing and 410 sprints(World Of Outlaws/High Limits) on Flo Racing subscription. Television programming(sitcoms) and Hollywood movies are absolute shit. Stuff like Madmen, Yellowstone, Landman are at least tolerable and I can watch it all at once on a binge day at my leisure. Other than that why the F do I want to watch lame ass remakes with the same f'ing actors that are long in the tooth or that are in every f'ing movie like this Pedro Pascal dude. Why the F is that guy in EVERY movie? Did they run out of Australian actors to play in American movies?

Posted by: JROD at July 28, 2025 03:59 PM (IlL6s)

440 NOOD Tariffs

Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 28, 2025 03:59 PM (vd6bO)

441 The idea of sitcom cool was remarkably different in the early 90s.

I’ve been watching CHiPs first season OTA. Not at all what I expected. Possibly the most good natured cop show I’ve seen. It’s all small town stuff in the city.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 28, 2025 03:59 PM (EXyHK)

442 Crystal Bernard was really a cutie.
Posted by: Bulg at July 28, 2025 03:54 PM (77rzZ)
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Farah Fork wasn't bad either.

Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2025 04:00 PM (krQz2)

443 They don't play instruments any more. It's all made up electronic stuff.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 28, 2025 04:00 PM (TEi+a)

444 I think Adam Carolla would have a money making late show.

He was very successful with Love Line and now his podcast. Problem would be getting guests now though I think it could be done.

Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2025 04:01 PM (VofaG)

445 429 381 I've been stream watching all the Sitcoms I really liked.

Wings
Scrubs
-------------
News Radio
---------------

Watched them originally. Wings was a little light but they all were OK.
"3rd Rock from the Sun,"
Alien Nation was a daily time waster for me

hey! alien nation was hard-hitting scifi!

Posted by: sam francisco at July 28, 2025 04:01 PM (v3pYe)

446 I can recall when almost every day of the week in most cities there was live music in many genres, and big concerts with actual live rock bands with live white musicians and no rappers.

Where did that all go?
Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at July 28, 2025 03:59 PM (et1vG)

My city and surrounding cities/towns have a ton of live music in the summer. Some of it at city parks, some of it bars. Some concert halls. I don’t know if it is every single day but definitely Thursday to Sunday there’s live music somewhere if you want it.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 28, 2025 04:01 PM (Vvm2m)

447 424 Since Trump’s presidency and into his return, tensions have surged—Trump has publicly accused Powell of “playing politics” and using tariff-induced inflation as an excuse to delay rate cuts. etc, et al.
hahahahahahah

I love it. Trump is humiliating and harassing Powell at a minimum of once a day. Powell, the asshoe, jacked with the rates to boost
Biteme' and is doing them to hurt Trump. He's lucky that Trump is no Putin.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 28, 2025 04:03 PM (E7bCG)

448 Craig Ferguson and his gay skeleton sidekick, Geoff, should have been picked to host Late Night. Ferguson was naturally funny, had gift of gab, was quick with comebacks, knew how to interview....especially hot women who were funny and went with the flow. He also CHOSE to become an American citizen and had the don't tread on me tattoo.

Best episode was while bantering with Geoff about "I have a little pad" you could go to and swim in pool.....the whole audience peed in their pants with the incessant deep contagious laughs.

Posted by: Donovan Nuera at July 28, 2025 04:03 PM (LKMDZ)

449 Opinion - The Eagles aren't a rock band. They're a 70's / early 80s pop band with 3 or 4 rock songs. Change my mind.

They were intended to be a country band, during that period in the 70s where country, pop, and rock were all sort of interchangeable on the margins. But they eventually rebelled against that.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 28, 2025 04:04 PM (2ocoG)

450 Puppet Show and Stephen Colbert

Posted by: toby928 at July 28, 2025 04:04 PM (jc0TO)

451 Man after my own heart.

https://is.gd/RSeY5G

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 28, 2025 04:06 PM (L/fGl)

452

>This is rather amazing. I don't know if I've ever been around to watch a whole institution die out
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Little Tavern
Posted by: Don Black at July 28, 2025 03:48 PM (AOsQT)

Reel to Reel Tapes
8 Track Tapes
Vinyl
CD ROMs

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