Posted on 07/22/2025 5:15:54 AM PDT by DallasBiff
“I am your host,” The Tonight Show’s Jimmy Fallon kicked off, telling his Monday broadcast crowd.
“Well, at least for tonight,” the comedian added, obviously referencing the recent cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Fallon quickly told the crowd he didn’t like it.
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I see the other 4 night comedy hosts visited Colbert’s show in a show of support. There is no profitable market for the late night “comedy” industry anymore With the competition from the new media tech of the internet and other technologies, they are all losing money big time. These 4 guys visiting Colbert is like a buggy whip manufacturers convention
Like most current late night hosts, Fallon takes himself way too seriously. He, Kimmel and Colbert see themselves as some strange order of High Priests, keepers of the liberal culture flame. That flame has just about run out of gas.
A good comparison would be: you own the Dodgers and year after year, you spend $350-million on the team...but never advance in a decade to the World Series.
CBS continually ran into problems with marginal ad-revenue...unable to balance the books, and probably using NFL profits to cover Colbert’s antics.
Note: He is lying. It expands the TDS across fewer shows.
“”I haven’t watched a minute of the late-night clowns in years.””
Ditto. Just rename the shows ORANGE MAN BAD HOUR and get on with it.
Steve Allen, Jack Parr, Johnny Carson, Jay Leno were funny and not one sided funny. They poked fun at all sides.
These new agers are single sided and mean spirited. That’s why their ratings suck. Nobody but the same types as they are will watch. Everybody else just goes to bed.......................
Yes....Jay Leno belongs in the group with Johnny Carson, for sure.
He knew how to engage and entertain...and, leave unchecked politics out of the picture.
Hopefully Jimmy is next
Leno was really funny but rumor is he was canned because he made jokes about the messiah Obama.
“Asthma doesn’t seem to bother me any more unless I’m around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar.”
https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/steve_allen_110511
“I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That’s how I lost my mind.”
https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/steve_allen_385848
https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/steve-allen-quotes
Of course it does…. Jimmy is just being disingenuous. Each and every one of these clowns (no disrespect to clowns) will eventually have the same fate. 3 more years of Trump guarantees this same BS will make up the bulk of their “content”…. And this pretty much guarantees losing viewers and $$$$.
“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.”
Willie Nelson
https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/willie_nelson_184361
The late-night political commentators are going to lose their jobs because they are propaganda machines for the hate-America crowd.
“You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.”
https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/joyce_meyer_567542
“Letterman (whom I didn’t care for)”
I didn’t like him either.
I’ve seen the videos of Carson interviewing Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and Rev Billy Graham. He was respectful to them and made them feel at ease in their conversations, which were all engaging and interesting. One would have never guessed that Carson was a Democrat. He went out of his way to keep his political biases off his show. Can’t say that about the hosts today. Colbert, Kimmel and Fallon are leftist shills who can’t hold a candle to Johnny Carson!
This is the problem. These three are not funny.
Carson, Leno, Leno, even Letterman were funny. I am too young (62) to remember the others.
I do remember the Bob Hope specials, Laugh In repeats, even Hollywood Squares and Carol Burnett. Who’s show was really funny because of Harvey Corman, Tim Conway and the ladies were all funny. The writing was also good.
Letterman was a liberal but he was goofy. He was entertaining.
Leno did some great segments in Jay Walking.
Carson doing Karnack the Great was always really funny.
Even radio shows like Imus in the Morning were successful because they were funny.
Gutfeld is successful because he is funny. He then has people like Tyrus and a couple other regulars that give good takes on daily events.
Even Arseneal Hall had an okay show back in the 1980s.
Craig Ferguson is the only other recent late night host that is funny. I don’t even know if he is still on TV. I just see his clips interviewing smoking hot women on YouTube & Facebook.
“Don’t forget Jay Leno.”
I could see his face, but forgot his name.
Anyone remember Joey Bishop? I did not watch him enough to form an opinion.
My late father was a big fan of The Tonight Show until Johnny Carson's departure, after which he gradually lost interest. He always maintained that Steve Allen was the wittiest and best of the late-night hosts; what dad thought about late-night TV after Carson would be pretty much unprintable.
I can still remember being allowed to "stay up late" and watch some of the (post-Tonight) Steve Allen Show episodes. Everyone who came later owed Steve Allen a debt (at least Krusty the Clown admitted it).
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