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Posted on 07/20/2025 7:27:42 AM PDT by Morgana
A real comedian is not a barking moonbat on a soapbox. He knows his job is to entertain us, not to install our political opinions. The great Johnny Carson reminds us of better times for late night television: **VIDEO ON LINK**
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the classic “Shut up and sing” philosophy
“He knows his job is to entertain us, not to install our political opinions.”
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They believe their job is to MANIPULATE their viewers’ and persuade them to vote certain ways. This is not entertainment; its insidious propaganda.
Jack Paar preceded Carson.
I guess you would say he was apolitical.
Paar famously said on many occasions, “I never vote, it only encourages them.”
Cynical yes.
Un-American probably.
But as someone who has always voted which includes the like of the two Bushes named George, Juan McCain, and Pierre Delecto, I always felt that I was encouraging “them” for more of the same.
Then Trump came along.
And voting meant something again.
The Colbert Show was losing $40 million per year.
That’s why he was canceled. $$$$$$$$$$
Anything else is fake news.
all of hollywood needs to learn this lesson. Entertain me, stop trying to push woke crap on me.
Ringo Starr once said he does not discuss politics. That way, Ringo said, everyone thinks I agree with them.
Smart guy, that Ringo.
Carson was smart. He knew better than to alienate a large portion of his potential viewing audience. The thing is, about the time Carson retired in 1992, politics in America was changing, and not for the better. TV became a tool for the leftists to control the message, and the Clinton crowd were masters at it, especially on CNN.
I know nothing about the financial situation of CBS. But I suspect $40 million is serious money.
TV networks earn revenue from selling advertising. And the amounts of ad dollars are based on the ratings for shows. If Colbert did not have enough viewers to earn the ratings that translate into ad dollars, we can see this as a good business decision, to stop the red ink.
I don’t get where these members of Congress are coming from. To listen to them, I suspect we may see congressional investigations into the decision of CBS to cancel a show.
Do we really need to see Congress getting involved in the programming decisions of a TV network? It seems to me that is something that it clearly should not be the business of any one in our government. CBS management should not be answerable to government officials for their programming decisions.
Democrats in Congress have TDS.
They don’t think - they feel.
Plus, they have low IQ’s!
He was funny in the 90’s when he pretended to be Bill O’reilly.
The more YouTubers you see, some good, some not, the more clear it is that there are literally 100s of thousands of everyday people who could do late-night television shows. Many would probably draw a bigger audience than the sanctimonious lecturers who have been on the airwaves for too long now.
Colbert wouldn’t have been cancelled if he wasn’t White male.
They would never cancel “The View”, even if only 2 people watched it.
Johnny Carson at his peak was pulling in 8000,000 viewers a night. His show was hitting all of the right demographics for his advertisers and it was the most profitable show for NBC for many years.
Today all three of the late night shows are lucky if they can draw 3 1/2 million people total. The expenses are up and I don’t believe any of these shows are making any money whatsoever. They’re all losing money and Fallon along with Kimmel are going to be phased out also probably within the next year.
And somebody said it would be cheaper just to run old movies in that timeslot and you’d probably make money. These shows are now very expensive to produce your paying the hosts around $15 million on average a year and they’re not producing.
They have driven off the audiences in the last 10 to 15 years due to politics and none of them are very funny to begin with. I never did care for Letterman all that much he was peal the number two late night show after the Tonight Show. But his show did pull it ratings where they made money.
Go over to Fox, which is not even on a network and you have Greg Gutfeld pulling in to 5 million viewers a night and fox is making more money. They know what to do with and they can pay Gutfeld whatever he wants and he’s probably a lot cheaper than the other three.
And somebody said it would be cheaper just to run old movies in that timeslot and you’d probably make money.
Or Carson reruns, for that matter.
Carson predecessor Jack Paar famously said on many
occasions, “I never vote, it only encourages them.”
Good one.
Virtue-Signaler Julia Louis-Dreyfus Scolds CBS For Firing Colbert, Looks Impressively Stupid While Doing So
The days of the networks being loss leaders for their big corporate masters is over. The master wants to see profits.
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