Posted on 08/18/2024 3:41:40 AM PDT by Libloather
In an interview this week, Jimmy Kimmel conceded that the end is nigh for late-night talk shows.
“I don’t know if there will be any late-night television shows on network TV in 10 years,” the “Jimmy Kimmel Live” host said.
“Maybe there’ll be one but there won’t be a lot of them.”
Jimmy’s right. The culling has already commenced.
After James Corden departed “The Late Late Show” in 2023, CBS didn’t kick off a dramatic “Late Shift”-style talent search of yesteryear — the network brass replaced it with a comedy game show called “After Midnight.”
Nobody shed a single tear.
As much as it pains me to say it, not only is Kimmel’s crystal ball sadly spot-on — but late-night TV should call it quits. None of it is any good anymore.
And that’s not a “back in my day!,” old-man-shakes-fist-at-cloud, “these crazy kids,” criticism, either. Exactly zero young people are watching NBC and CBS at 11:30 p.m.
Late night is now squarely aimed at 50-and-up MSNBC viewers who don’t mind skipping “The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle” and are content with Jimmy Fallon’s struggles to make eye contact. Viewers are probably doing the dishes.
These shows have never in history been such a tedious afterthought.
Going all the way back to when Jack Paar took over “Tonight” from Steve Allen in 1957, hosts have found unique and clever ways to both embrace tradition and boldly forge a new path.
With time, Johnny Carson, David Letterman, Conan O’Brien and Craig Ferguson all ably completed that assignment. Obsessed over it even. Their off-beat personalities beamed, and inventive wackiness prevailed.
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Exactly, there’s plenty of streaming shows you can watch whenever.
Isn’t there some show on fox late at night? A panel?
My brother raves about it.
Although, they went all in for Hillary, which killed their busines. I can see the talk show landscape changing, where you are just having interesting guests and streaming the show on a platform, like Netflix, with no set time slot.
The same goes for the corporate media which is also dying.
The same goes for Hollywood which has been losing money hand over fist.
The same goes for the NBA which is now almost completely reliant on China. The same goes for the NFL which has seen its ratings steadily decline for a decade.
You'd think somebody might take a hint at some point.
When communist indoctrination programs were inserted into American education (universities and K-12) the plan was that it would eventually ooze from those institutions (as students left to enter the world) and then permeate the entire culture.
We have seen that happen.
They were all doing Orange Man Bad and wore it out. People weren’t laughing because it was funny. They laughed because they were told to laugh
“Isn’t there some show on fox late at night?”
Maybe Gutfeld has a late night show. I think he used to. I haven’t seen any of these for probably 35 years; they’re excruciatingly boring.
I stopped watching when Johnny Carson retired. Nothing was ever the same after that.
The media corporation were stong armed into changing late night talk into hard leftist propaganda.
Jimmy and the rest were told to tow the line and they did.
Nothing. Nothing they say is funny and the entertainers there to plug their latest tv and film product sprinkled with leftist jabs at the right make you want to puke.
So, there goes over 50% of your audience straight away followed by the rest who find no entertainment value whatsoever in an unfunny comedy hour.
The left destroys everything it touches.
These shows stopped being funny a long time ago. SNL can be put in that same genre. After all day of reading about how bad the republicans are, there is better and funnier stuff out there.
https://x.com/jason_howerton/status/1824569075441471999
“They laughed because they were told to laugh”
This is true. I remember going to a game show, in NYC back the day. Pre-show instruction was “laugh” when a card was held up “applaud” when another card was held up etc.
His show is killing in the ratings, and is funny and irreverent from a conservative/libertarian perspective.
If you've never watched it, record an episode or two - it's worth a look for some good laughs.
10:00pm EST is not late night for ratings purposes
Anyhow, Gutfeld’s ratings are killing their prime-time opponents too.
Just like other TV ratings. CNBC’s HIGHEST rated segments tend to be 200,000 or less, and in the 25-54 demo these programs are generating awful numbers. For CNBC, maybe 20,000 in that group.
I just utilize YouTube and watch a bunch of stuff across the spectrum. At least the more liberal YT’ers spend time outlining why they believe something, instead of this silly 30-second sound bite repetitive crap all over cable.
I have a problem with late-night anything.
They killed their day. It went from entertainment to propaganda. Kimmel got his monologue from Schumer at one point.
Go woke, go political and you end up going away.
It got to the point where these shows became only for the sick, lame and retarded college kiddies with insomnia who believe watching this crap would improve their intelligence and make them appear to be smarter than they actually are. Unfortunately, the clowns lost out to cellphones. The kiddies now spend all their time staring at and poking their cellphones. The TV can no longer get their attention.
10 is late night for me. Lol
If sportsball had to rely on ticket sales and fans, it would have crashed decades ago.
Sportsball exists on wagering.
Global Warming Climate Change is scheduled to end all programming on the planet in six years.
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