Posted on 07/22/2025 6:22:28 AM PDT by DallasBiff
Colbert losing $40 million a year? What does he think he is, the WNBA?
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My poor old-fashioned baby
I said baby, baby, baby, you’re out of time 🎵
Jon Stewart another ass kissing fool catering to the feral troops he needs to dumped from TV as a public service.
Here's my suggestion to the upset bunch.
Let any late night talk show host post a $50 Million bond of their own money. Any losses in the show come out of the bond. Any law suit settlements come out of the bond.
Let's see how serious their virtue signaling takes them?
With the amount of money he sucked off of CBS, why doesn’t he do his own streaming show and sell it over the internet? Let his money speak where his big mouth is.
Colbert should tell CBS he will let them out of their contract and save them close to 75 million, his annual 20 mil and the 50 or so mil they ae losing on the show. That’s what a real man would do, not cry and whimper and claim he’s a millionaire martyr.
As long as they stay away from the last five years, he was pretty much past it then. Also Carson wasn’t as moderate in showing his political views either, while still far above these current ‘comedians hosting these shows. Anyone remember how his dislike of Reagan colored his shows during the first presidential campaign and term? He looked visibly hurt when the audience didn’t respond positively to his ‘jokes’ and digs at Reagan.
Another network is more than able to pick Colbert up. Many opportunities are out there. Prove CBS wrong if you feel that strongly. In the meantime, it looks to me like comedians and wnba players are both having trouble understanding math.
In five years, no one will remember him except the most rabid liberals.
I have never watched the show, but perhaps it’s cancellation was due to it consisting of pandering left wing bs that only a handful of idiots want to watch, and even fewer want to sponsor.
So he admits that the business model is dead. What he won’t admit is the role of liberals in killing comedy. Comedy is funny because there’s truth in the middle of it.
Every time there’s a liberal in charge, the truth becomes the enemy. Comedy makes a comeback when something other than a liberal is in charge, because then truth-telling is essential for subverting the will of the people who put that leader there.
So it’s not just the business model. Even Stewart admits that the Overton window has shifted so far to the left even he can’t find real estate on the left for his podium.
Bottom line is this - the minute comedy got political it started to die. Satire is one thing. You’re flying a political flag over what you are trying to do. Comedy, however, is for everyone. The Babylon Bee, thank God for them, is a great example. Satire at its finest.
I miss Andrew Dice Clay and the shock comedians of the 80s and 90s. You don’t like them? Don’t patronize them. However, there’s a market for them. Venues, credit card companies, and banks have been enlisted by the left to enforce the censorship regime that the government wished it could just impose on its own.
Jon Stewart likes to extend his metaphors. He leaps from his obsolescence truth, jumps to lightspeed and then claims the world is giving up on comedy.
I guess if you’re going to try and jump to another ideological galaxy, you’ll need a warp drive sense of metaphor to accomplish it.
It’s wrong to cancel a late night TV show LOSING $40 million a year? HA HA !
Colbert lost the company $40 million (that they’ll admit to). Stewart should figure out how much he’s costing his employer. Then he might shut up.
I believe that Colbert is being cancelled because the show isn’t profitable.
The late night audience just no longer exists. Many are just, well, dead.
He looks like a corpse
Well, some of us old coots are just asleep by then, though admittedly it might be tough to tell the difference.
Corporations are prohibited from contributing to political campaigns.
Individuals face limits on how much they can contribute to a candidate.
Corporations can lose as much money as they want producing and showing talk shows that are essentially in-kind contributions to opposing candidates/parties.
Shareholders should consider suing the Board of CBS for allegedly squandering corporate resources.
The great thing about America is that these late night talk show hosts are free to invest their own money to create a network that produces and airs whatever kind of content they choose.
Yep, TCN, Tucker Carlson Network
Previously, he was a little bit more like Jay Leno. He was capable of making a joke. But now he's a total hack.
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