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10 Ideas For Better Shows To Replace 'The Late Show' With Stephen Colbert
The Bee ^ | Jul 19, 2025 | The Bee

Posted on 07/21/2025 8:47:16 AM PDT by dayglored

After announcing the cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, CBS is hard at work searching for a better program to replace their old flagship. Here are ten great ideas that would be way better than The Late Show:

  1. Larry The Dying Leper: This show is just watching a man slowly die of leprosy. Way funnier!

  2. Kidney Stone Watch: 90 straight minutes of a dude trying to pass a kidney stone.

  3. That old "KaBoom" infomercial with Billy Mays on loop: Such a classic.

  4. Cemetery Cam: Nothing but a livestream from a camera at a cemetery. Big upgrade, CBS.

  5. The Ingrown Toenail Experience: Way less painful than the "Vax-Scene."

  6. Dora The Explorer: Eh, pretty close call.

  7. Mold: Watch bread slowly grow mold in some family's closet. What an improvement.

  8. Moist Madness: People saying the word "moist" repeatedly for an hour and a half. Much less cringey.

  9. Who Wants To Be An Orphan?: Sad, yes, but still better.

  10. A commie screeching and crying but at the end someone comes out and whacks him with a stick: Sweet.

So many great options. You're welcome for the help, CBS.




TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor
KEYWORDS: aftermidnight; babylonbee; colbert; greggutfeld; humor; jimmyfallon; jimmykimmel; lateshow; nightline; satire; sethmeyers; stephencolbert; thedailyshow
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To: dayglored

Laurel & Hardy, Mama’s Family or Sanford & Son


21 posted on 07/21/2025 9:13:30 AM PDT by madison10 (You are not required to set yourself on fire to keep other people warm.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
Public trials and executions of Demagogic Party demagogues, in and out of media and other NGOs, and gov't.

As always, I mean that in the nicest possible way.

22 posted on 07/21/2025 9:14:00 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The moron troll Ted Holden believes that humans originated on Ganymede.)
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To: dayglored
Kidney Stone Watch: 90 straight minutes of a dude trying to pass a kidney stone.

Cemetery Cam: Nothing but a livestream from a camera at a cemetery. Big upgrade, CBS.

Thank God for the Bee...

23 posted on 07/21/2025 9:18:25 AM PDT by GOPJ (Democrats judge themselves by their 'intentions' NOT by their results. It's one reason they fail.)
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To: dayglored

We love “Cops”.


24 posted on 07/21/2025 9:21:44 AM PDT by Hattie
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To: dayglored

Obvious solution: have CBS bring back the “CBS Late Night Movie”, which was never a movie at all, but old Kojak reruns, according to former “Late Show/Late Night” host David Letterman.


25 posted on 07/21/2025 9:27:44 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: dayglored

Obvious solution: have CBS bring back the “CBS Late Night Movie”, which was never a movie at all, but old Kojak reruns, according to former “Late Show/Late Night” host David Letterman.


26 posted on 07/21/2025 9:28:38 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: dayglored

They could show Count Floyd’s Monster Chiller Horror Theatre!


27 posted on 07/21/2025 9:28:47 AM PDT by Rainbow Rising (Welcome back, President Trump!)
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To: SMARTY

“ The test pattern would be more entertaining”

And stoners will love it. Run snack commercials.


28 posted on 07/21/2025 9:30:29 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (TDS much?)
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To: dayglored

Al Capone’s Vault 2: Geraldo Rivera Re-Examines the Secret Vaults Contents!


29 posted on 07/21/2025 9:31:30 AM PDT by parmamenian (an)
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To: MikelTackNailer

Just use the ones from the 1970’s.

Toonce’s the Driving Cat
Samurai *.* All of them
Land Shark
Bass-o-matic
“Jane, You ignorant slut”
2 Wild and Crazy Guys !
Etc...


30 posted on 07/21/2025 9:34:22 AM PDT by mabarker1 ((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! I’m a fraud, hypocrite & liar. I'm a member of Congress!! )
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To: dayglored
Re-runs of "Death Valley Days" or "Wagon Train" or My Favorite Oldie"
31 posted on 07/21/2025 9:38:28 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (Hail to Pitt!)
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To: SunkenCiv

I’ll Second That !!!

And make sure the children are watching it too. Call it rapid learning and Facts. They will learn Right from Wrong and Remember it !!!

All Channels, Networks and Times.


32 posted on 07/21/2025 9:40:40 AM PDT by mabarker1 ((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! I’m a fraud, hypocrite & liar. I'm a member of Congress!! )
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To: dayglored

The Babylon Bee Story Hour


33 posted on 07/21/2025 9:43:02 AM PDT by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back)
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To: dayglored

Gutfeld 2.0. Sure you watched him just an hour ago on Fox News, but now he’s bought the old Colbert slot as an infomercial for himself.


34 posted on 07/21/2025 9:47:34 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (I refuse to call the left "progressive" because I do not see slavery to the government as progress.)
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To: dayglored

A sports recap show with Keith Olbermann...


35 posted on 07/21/2025 9:52:07 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The dawn cracks hard like a bull whip and it ain't taking no lip from the night before" Tom Waits)
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To: cuz1961

Video of a dead possum decomposing.

Just about as entertaining as Colbert.


36 posted on 07/21/2025 9:54:56 AM PDT by sjmjax
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To: EQAndyBuzz

“And stoners will love it. Run snack commercials.”

HEY .. . man .. . you just insulted like about a gagillion “stoners.” .. .

What KIND of snack commerecials?

Spaceman


37 posted on 07/21/2025 10:11:58 AM PDT by Spaceman49
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To: Dr. Sivana
For a while CBS actually ran original programs after The Tonight Show. They were series that for some reason did not make the cut for prime time.

I worked swing shift,(for those of you who do not know what that is, Saturday and Sunday night I worked third shift Wednesday, Thursday and Friday I worked second shift) and so I would watch them when I got home after work.

Sometimes they would run series that were from Canada which were amusing.

38 posted on 07/21/2025 10:27:52 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: dayglored

Watching hardcore plumbers unclog houses/businesses main lines.


39 posted on 07/21/2025 10:27:56 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: dayglored
10. A commie screeching and crying but at the end someone comes out and whacks him with a stick: Sweet.

Wait a minute. I think they've got something there.

40 posted on 07/21/2025 10:32:22 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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