Posted on 07/31/2025 6:50:40 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Stephen Colbert’s Late Show overwhelmingly catered to left-wing audiences, functioning more as a partisan “therapy” outlet than a comedy program, according to a new study from media watchdog NewsBusters.
Since 2022, Colbert hosted 176 left-leaning guests and just one Republican — former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), a vocal critic of President Donald Trump. In 2025 alone, The Late Show featured 43 left-leaning guests and zero conservatives, according to the analysis.
“Colbert’s show has been late-night group therapy for liberals,” NewsBusters managing editor Curtis Houck told New York Post. “Americans have continually shown they no longer have the time or patience for such partisan sneering masquerading as comedy.”
Guests in the current year included Democratic senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Cory Booker (D-NJ), along with liberal journalists and socialist candidates like Zohran Mamdani. While former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) also appeared on the show, researchers excluded him from the conservative tally, citing his alignment with Democrat positions and repeated attacks on Trump — including his claim that there was “nothing more conservative” than voting for then-Vice President Kamala Harris.
Cheney was counted as a right-leaning guest after confronting Colbert over his criticism of the Republican Party in December 2023.
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I saw a picture of the ‘protest’ - a bunch of poor ‘rent a mob’ types standing behind a $5,000 sign. Who’s paying for this crap?
If NY newspapers were honest they would find out.
The big major mainstream media entities led by the NY Times have more to do with comfort food for Democrats than real news. When it comes to their commercial base of progressive consumers, they subscribe to the “you can’t take the truth!” Jack Nicholson school of thought. So, they simply don’t give it to them.
It’s crap. They also couldn’t elect his sister to congress in SC. Should have picked Virginia.
“Who’s paying for this crap?”
probably Colbert ...
btw, size of protest is consistent with the size of Colbert’s ratings ...
A clip of the old Johnny Carson show was on TeeVee last night - embedded in another program. Rodney Dangerfield was on telling jokes and everyone in the audience was laughing (my family too).
Back when late night talk shows were really good...
Hope Fallon and Kimmel are next.
I’ve often wondered why the GOP doesn’t demand a presence on late night TV under the Equal Time provisions of the FCC rules. Late night TV is nothing but a time reserved for bashing Trump and conservatives in general, which is why I quit watching that crap years ago. I sure hope Kimmel is next...he’s just a jerk, plain and simple.
I’m old enough to remember when the news on TV wasn’t a platform for that station to parade their ideology. Also, journalists were “real” back then and actually tried to report both sides of an issue equally and let the reader draw their conclusions. Today, they give their side and then try to tell you what to believe.
When I was a kid I’d come out of my bedroom at the start of the Tonight Show with Jack Paar. My parents would let me watch the opening monologue.
My mother went to her grave claiming Jack Paar was a far better late night host than Johnny Carson ever was...
Yeah, it did look like he was renting the cheaper ‘non-violent wife at home’ mob.
Funny how liberals always need help/therapy when they don’t get what they want. It’s because they are all mentally unstable and borderline lunatics.
Update...
https://variety.com/2025/tv/awards/jimmy-kimmel-billboard-stephen-colbert-emmy-campaign-1236477003/
Note the lower right hand corner of the billboard.
Who bought it?
Kimmel?
Or Disney...?
(h/t: YouTuber WDW Pro)
https://www.youtube.com/live/uAcftVg76Hw?feature=shared
The WDW PRO Show on the subject. Billboard discussion comes in at around the 21:30 timestamp.
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