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:
Larry The Dying Leper: This show is just watching a man slowly die of leprosy. Way funnier!
Kidney Stone Watch: 90 straight minutes of a dude trying to pass a kidney stone.
That old "KaBoom" infomercial with Billy Mays on loop: Such a classic.
Cemetery Cam: Nothing but a livestream from a camera at a cemetery. Big upgrade, CBS.
The Ingrown Toenail Experience: Way less painful than the "Vax-Scene."
Dora The Explorer: Eh, pretty close call.
Mold: Watch bread slowly grow mold in some family's closet. What an improvement.
Moist Madness: People saying the word "moist" repeatedly for an hour and a half. Much less cringey.
Who Wants To Be An Orphan?: Sad, yes, but still better.
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.
Chief Bear-Step doing the Lord’s Prayer in sign language.
Hee Haw reruns.
15. The Word of the Day, by Unity.
Golf clap. I’m 62 and my father used to say when he was dealing with a sick kid, how he dreaded the playing of the national anthem because he knew it was just him and one of my six brothers and sisters he had to deal with. He said, now, he could just put Sports Center on all night.
Bedtime....ease into sleep. The puppies and kittens channel, The babbling brook channel, rain on the roof channel, burning fireplace channel, the jellyfish channel.
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“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.”
Maybe so in its later years, but they used to run some really good movies in the ‘60s and ‘70s.
“Test pattern followed by the playing of the national anthem.”
“Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
of sun-split clouds,—and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of—wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air ....
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew—
And, while with silent lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.”
Followed by The Star Spangled Banner
Using the old B&W montage would be very cool.
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