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Posted on 07/19/2025 4:25:20 PM PDT by Libloather
Everybody was shocked — shocked! — when Stephen Colbert announced this week that CBS canceled “The Late Show.”
The despondent media reacted like a meteor was about to smash into Earth.
But how surprising was Colbert’s kibosh really?
Did peoples’ jaws also hit the floor when Blockbuster Video called it quits in 2014?
Were they muffling their screams when blimps were phased out for air travel in 1937?
“What do you mean ‘no more silent films’?!”
The end of “The Late Show” was every bit as writ-in-stone as any of those predictable downfalls.
And it’s not only Colbert. The Grim Reaper is coming for all of late-night TV. Those comedians in neckties are just ignoring Death’s deafening knock.
The retro programs, which began in the 1950s as an experiment to fill time, have far too tiny a viewership to justify their exorbitant cost anymore.
The Post reported Friday that Colbert’s talk show was losing $40 to $50 million per year. The Times watered down those figures to mere “tens of millions.”
Awfully hard to blame Trump for that.
True, “The Late Show” was beating the competition with 2.42 million nightly viewers on average during the first quarter. But just 9% of those eyeballs were in the 18-49 demo that advertisers covet.
That means no ad dollars because young people couldn’t care less.
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>>loosing” That’s not even a word.
Loosing the stone of shame upon the perpetrator.
Loosing is the present participle of the verb ‘loose’, meaning to unfasten, let go, or release.
He reminded me of a mean drunk. I rarely watched him but got lucky one night when his monologue had him admitting form the first time on live tv about an affair and extortion scheme. I can’t remember who his guest was after the monologue but they handled pretty funny. It may have been Norm McDonald. it was hilarious seeing him eat crow.
“ >>loosing” That’s not even a word.
Loosing the stone of shame upon the perpetrator.
Loosing is the present participle of the verb ‘loose’, meaning to unfasten, let go, or release.”
When people mis spell this word it messes with my spelling. I have to look twice
What you are exemplifying is your own spelling not taken from a dictionary. It’s from some Middle English or biblical reference
It is extremely obnoxious
They probably could survive as a podcast.
Johnny Carson is on Antenna TV channel Monday to Friday. It is a digital channel. Check your television guide.
The “Pat Sajak Show” (late-night television talk show) was so good that Rush Limbaugh even guest hosted it.
Yep, Norman Lear and his Maude schlock took over in the ‘70s.
‘mean drunk’
exactly.
Edge Lord is edgelording. Take a Midol dude!
Too bad most of Carson’s shows before 1973 are lost.
https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/how-many-johnny-carson-episodes-are-missing.1125729/
Carson reruns would get higher ratings than any of the current late night shows.
I don’t think you paid close attention in grammar school. That’s a real word that has nothing to do with middle English or whatever. I just enjoy the sound of words, which is why I created that particular sentence.
Loosing has to do with releasing, nothing to do with not being able to find something.
And, actually, I really enjoyed reading dictionaries as a kid. Mother’s vocabulary put mine to shame and often sent me searching through the family dictionary. To this day, I really believe that grandfather was fascinated to help me go through the week’s vocabulary lists. It was a kind family.
I do understand about words that are not in everyday use today. I spent ten years researching New York newspaper poetry from 1775 to 1830. I worked at various times with a Vassar prof and a professor emeritus from New Zealand. Many times came across uncommon wordings that I had to ask about.
Loosing isn’t one of those.
At least Maude had Adrienne Barbeau.
Regular network is about done on all levels in my view but I don't watch it at all.
You know you are old if you remember when Letterman did comedy rather than bitter old man.
The wildest late night show of all was watching a totally angry and bitter Chevy Chase during his last weeks on his late night show after he knew that no one was watching and that he was being canceled, he dropped the facade and wallowed in his disgust for his audience and people in general, it was a total train wreck.
>>Too bad most of Carson’s shows before 1973 are lost.
YES!!!!!!!
Another early 50’s show I loved was the Adventures of Hiram Holliday with Wally Cox. I’ve bought all that I could find but some are damaged and most are gone. I still have an image in my head of him swordfighting with his umbrella on a bridge and that’s not in any episode I found.
“”””Carson reruns would get higher ratings than any of the current late night shows.””””
I’ve often thought about that, it should be attempted.
It’s obnoxious and not funny
Loosing Is not a word. Find a dictionary and let it go
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