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I Love the Smell of Schadenfreude in the Morning: Gun Hater Stephen Colbert’s Ratings Have Collapsed
Shooting News Weekly ^ | 14 Feb 2026 | John Boch

Posted on 02/15/2026 1:12:22 PM PST by Rummyfan

Stephen Colbert still has a late night show, but not for much longer. The cancelled, not-so-funnyman who hates guns, gun owners and the right to armed self-defense has suffered a precipitous ratings collapse in recent months years. What caused viewers to flee? Could it be his relentless alienation of over half of America with his insufferable woke scolding posing as comedy?

The Park Place has the grim news many of us view with a certain Schadenfreude delight:

The Stephen Colbert ratings freefall has reached an undeniable breaking point. As The Late Show with Stephen Colbert approaches its already-announced cancellation, the program is now posting record-low January numbers, marking one of the steepest late-night declines in recent television history.

According to Nielsen data reported this week, Colbert’s show is averaging roughly 285,000 viewers in the crucial 25–54 demographic, putting it on track for its worst January performance ever in the category that advertisers actually care about. With just months left before the curtain closes for good, the ratings trajectory suggests viewers have been checking out long before CBS formally pulled the plug.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Politics; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: banglist; cbs; colbert; gofigure; imaginethat; lateshow; ohnoanyway; schadenfreude; stephencolorectal; stephencolostomybag; thatsashame

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Why he has any viewers at all is confounding.

1 posted on 02/15/2026 1:12:22 PM PST by Rummyfan
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“Why he has any viewers at all is confounding.”

probably soy boys and AWFULS ...


2 posted on 02/15/2026 1:15:09 PM PST by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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It appears the true believers aren’t supporting him for the most part. He’s laughing on the way to his bank, but you know it irks him that his core audience rejected him.


3 posted on 02/15/2026 1:24:06 PM PST by ChuckHam
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Of all those late-night clowns, I hate Colbert the most.


4 posted on 02/15/2026 1:24:30 PM PST by Fido969
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To: Rummyfan

Why he has a program is confounding.


5 posted on 02/15/2026 1:28:20 PM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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As the show approaches its terminus, the number of writers is likely dwindling, and not putting up their best stuff but instead saving that for their next job.


6 posted on 02/15/2026 1:32:08 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: Rummyfan

The smell of cheese


7 posted on 02/15/2026 1:33:11 PM PST by butlerweave (Fateh)
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Misery loves company…. Same reason the View still exists


8 posted on 02/15/2026 1:36:04 PM PST by MrRelevant
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To: T.B. Yoits

You can only say Orange Man Bad so many ways, so many times


9 posted on 02/15/2026 1:37:12 PM PST by MrRelevant
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You can’t really collapse from where he was.


10 posted on 02/15/2026 1:37:53 PM PST by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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Is it considered “illegal” to use a full-size of his picture for target practice at 800 yards?
Asking for a friend....LOL


11 posted on 02/15/2026 1:38:43 PM PST by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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His recent episode where he walks his face right into the camera in anger over speaker of the house Mike Johnson quoting Romans 13 was fairly persuade and completely unpersuasive. Colbert was trying to justify anti ice violence.


12 posted on 02/15/2026 1:47:38 PM PST by lonestar67 (America is exceptional)
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This ***hole’s departure date should be immediate.


13 posted on 02/15/2026 2:21:18 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Charlie Kirk's assassination / murder was our Fort Sumter moment. But only one side is fighting.)
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How do we even know if the numbers are true? Entertainment is so fake I wouldn’t be surprised the numbers are faked in order to charge advertisers more than the time slot is worth.
Best idea is to tune those clowns out....forever.


14 posted on 02/15/2026 2:21:51 PM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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He doesn’t hate guns; he hates you and me owning and carrying them.


15 posted on 02/15/2026 2:36:53 PM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH! )
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To: ChuckHam

Stephen Colbert gives empty suits a bad name. And he is the emptiest suit on late-night TV. A total non-entity.


16 posted on 02/15/2026 3:30:51 PM PST by alloysteel (Coming in high, hot, blind, dead-stick, wheels up, outta gas, and the glide angle of a brick....)
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“According to Nielsen data reported this week, Colbert’s show is averaging roughly 285,000 viewers in the crucial 25–54 demographic...”

It’s a small club and we ain’t in it.


17 posted on 02/15/2026 4:45:36 PM PST by Tallguy
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Buh-bye !



18 posted on 02/15/2026 5:44:22 PM PST by Candor7 ( Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!<img src="" width=300</img><a href="">tag</a>))
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Every Dog has his day. Recall how over the top popular
Jon Stewart was around 12 years ago?
He stopped for a few years, tried to reignite the fire, and has never been able to find the right spark since.
His time was over. A new generation of Libs came with their own handpicked Heroes and Villains.


19 posted on 02/15/2026 5:58:12 PM PST by lee martell
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The Picture of Dorian Colbert.


20 posted on 02/15/2026 7:40:56 PM PST by TTFlyer (Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
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