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Stephen Colbert declares himself a 'martyr' and warns the 'gloves are off' in searing response to Trump
UK Daily Mail ^ | Juily 22, 2025 | Stephen M. Lepore

Posted on 07/22/2025 4:46:44 AM PDT by C19fan

Stephen Colbert called himself a 'martyr' before firing off a crude message to Donald Trump, warning 'the gloves are off' after the president gloated over The Late Show’s cancellation.

The comedian's decade-long run as the host of CBS' late night flagship will end next May, with network insiders suggesting the top-rated show was canceled because it was losing anywhere from $40 to $100million per year.

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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: cancellation; cbs; colbert; enemedia; lateshow; maximumtds; orangemanbadshow; starvetheleft; stephencolbert; talkshows; tds; trysellingthetruth; usefulidiot; whosnext
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To: Brian Griffin
The guy has months to cut expenses and boost his ratings.

Maybe Steve should try being funny and making people laugh instead of being perpetually angry, which turns audiences off.

61 posted on 07/22/2025 6:25:44 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: C19fan

Did anyone even notice this!!! NEXT MAY is last day for
this ‘martyr’...

“The comedian’s decade-long run as the host of CBS’ late night flagship will end next May”


62 posted on 07/22/2025 6:32:10 AM PDT by BrandtMichaels ( 1st Peter 4:8 "Above all, love each other deeply because love covers a multitude of sins." )
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To: C19fan

He thinks he’s going to bring his ratings back up by doubling down on what he’s been doing all along. He hasn’t got the brains to fill a diaper…


63 posted on 07/22/2025 6:32:39 AM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: telescope115

He thinks he’s going to bring his ratings back up by doubling down on what he’s been doing all along. He hasn’t got the brains to fill a diaper…


He could take the Howard Beale approach.....”Tune in next Tuesday. That should give the public relations people a week to promote the show. Ought to get a hell of a rating out of that. A 50 share at least.”


64 posted on 07/22/2025 6:35:55 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: C19fan

“Top rated” is disingenuous...only bettering the nets (NBCABC) which are in almost in 200>300 MILLION homes, garnering 1 > 2 million viewers.

Comparatively, Gutfeld is in, iirc, 6 million on cable but BEATS the nets daily by 1 million +/-.


65 posted on 07/22/2025 6:40:48 AM PDT by chiller (Davey Crockett: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead". (We'll go ahead))
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To: C19fan

Johnny Carson had guests and topics that brought people together. Leno followed that pattern. Colbert, Fannon and Kimmel just concentrate on dividing people and pissing off traditional Americans.

If the networks wanted to make money, they should just do reruns of Leno and Carson in the late night slots. I suspect that Pluto and Tubi make a lot more money on Johnny Carson reruns than all the networks combined on those three losers.


66 posted on 07/22/2025 6:47:08 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (Do the math. L+G+B+T+Q = 666)
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To: mewzilla

Holy crap. That’s a lot of money…


67 posted on 07/22/2025 6:47:40 AM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: SMARTY

Mark Russel was the only appointment view on PBS in our house.


68 posted on 07/22/2025 6:48:50 AM PDT by chiller (Davey Crockett: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead". (We'll go ahead))
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To: C19fan
Stephen Colbert - a 'martyr' for aborted babies.

69 posted on 07/22/2025 6:50:35 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: C19fan

Hey Colbert! You’re gonna take off your gloves? Well guess what? Trump already DID take his off and he knocked you on your ass and you’re too stupid to see it!


70 posted on 07/22/2025 6:51:04 AM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: linMcHlp
Stephen Colbert - a 'martyr' for corrupt federal judges.

71 posted on 07/22/2025 6:51:38 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: linMcHlp
Stephen Colbert - a 'martyr' for corrupt members of the Congress, who knew about Epstein & Gal.

72 posted on 07/22/2025 6:52:59 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: C19fan

Watch it you’ll get sued


73 posted on 07/22/2025 6:56:19 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: C19fan

This termination of Colbert’s show had nothing to do with President Trump. Colbert flat out went past his expiration date with his moldy, overused political humor loaded with Trump Derangement Syndrome.


74 posted on 07/22/2025 6:56:33 AM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: chiller

He was great!


75 posted on 07/22/2025 7:04:46 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: C19fan

Oh, no! I’m sure Trump is shaking in his boots — NOT!


76 posted on 07/22/2025 7:15:29 AM PDT by Polyxene (Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD. Lord, hear my voice. Psalm 130)
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To: SaveFerris

Spot on


77 posted on 07/22/2025 7:20:03 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: C19fan

Here’s an idea for any late night TDS sufferers getting the ax..Or any other celebs who may struggle in the next 4 years who finds themselves bleeding money for their TV exec big shots.

They can start their own streaming service :

TDS+

The TDS crazies need an avenue to vent and cope.
If you build it, they will get in line to get their fix.


78 posted on 07/22/2025 7:21:38 AM PDT by delchiante
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To: C19fan

I find it interesting that this guy‘s ego is so fragile that he is upset that the president is gloating over his professional demise…the same president over whose apparent professional demise this hypocritical SOB rejoiced in 2020.

What’s good for the goose, is good for the gander. Suck it up, loser.


79 posted on 07/22/2025 7:28:11 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: C19fan

80 posted on 07/22/2025 7:29:28 AM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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