Jon Stewart rips CBS over Colbert cancellation: ‘F‑‑‑ing wrong’

The Hill ^ | 7/22/25 | Sarah Fortinsky

[Bob434]

Tell ya what John- you hire someone who COSTS YOU $40 MILL PER YEAR- then come back and tell us how wrong it was that you finally fire them!

[RayChuang88]

But interestingly enough, The Daily Show will survive because the production costs per year is a tiny fraction of the US$100 million per year cost of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. And The Daily Show can be a lot more political than The Late Show.

[Shamrock-DW]

It takes a really warped S.O.B. to think Colbert is funny at that time of the night.....or any other time of the day.

[tumblindice]

There it is: “This must be Trump’s fault.”
Like the swallows returning to Capistrano.

[packrat35]

Colbert has always been a democrat hack. Putting him in that job automatically killed off 2/3 of the audience.

[SkyDancer]

They were loosing 40 mill a year on that show with viewership dropping.

[Cowgirl of Justice]

Let those a-holes reach into their own pockets and pay for their friends.

[FreedomNotSafety]

Late night needs to join up with the WNBA. They are have a lot in common. Whiny, unprofitable, not entertaining, woke, and ugly.

[From The Deer Stand]

I am proud to say that I haven’t watched 5 minutes of Stewart’s show. He’s way too annoying from the clips I’ve seen.

[timestax]

https://subsidytracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/paramount-global

[x]

Just show Carson reruns, they’ll get higher ratings.

That won't mean much of an improvement in the 18-49 demographic, and the people who would watch may not be able to stay up that late anymore.

[bobbo666]

Another congenital liar chimes in.

[bert]

: )

[RayChuang88]

Because CBS/Paramount Global was likely getting taxpayer funded subsidies to make up for the loss.

Bingo. There are suspicions that Paramount Global/CBS was getting "under the table" payments to "paper over" the US$40 million per year loss. How? By having USAID send money to an offshore NGO and the NGO sending back money through a back channel back to Paramount/CBS. Essentially, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert was subsidized from what amounts to a slush fund.