I think they just missed the memo..
Colbert is just NOT funny.
And the late night talk shows have veered away from being funny, variety shows to post nightly news, news opinion shows, featuring interviews with the anchors from the previous day’s shows plus various democrat elected officials.
Letterman, was definitely left wing. But the show had enough humor. And the show was not politics centered, or in your face propaganda. So, it was at least able to pull a varied audience.
Well said.
It’s not about comedy. Carson was not a comedian. He was a talk show host with a good sense of humor
It’s about late night. People tune in before bed. They want and need a wrap up of the day’s events.
Carson took advantage of tge need as did jack paar and Steve Allen. Leno was narcissistic and nasty so was letterman who went liberal with the show just after he had Hillary on and went in for emergency cardiac procedure the day after.
Consent rogue and got away from all of it. He now has an interview podcast that does very well. Contrary to Mr Greenfield’s take, Conan is quite the good interviewer with a good understanding of the interests young adults he has on all the current culturally relevant guests
“according to Variety. It averages over 9 million downloads per month”
Late night is driven by the audience. Tge audience needs it
CBS et al are too thick headed and proud (in the virtue sense of the word)to seek out that audience who would tune in if the network would understand what Johnny was doing
He made up a new Waffle House song with someone and that was the only time I laughed at something he did.
There were 3 other talk shows that were cancelled by cbs yet no outcry from the democrats about it as they were canceled because they were costing too much just like the Colbert show.
“Late Late Show” in 2023. James Corden host. 8 seasons.
CBS Canceled ‘After Midnight’ which replaced Late Late Show, host Taylor Tomlinson. Last show in June after just 3 seasons.
CBS canceled the daytime talk show “The Talk” December 20, 2024. The reasons cited for its cancellation included years of declining ratings. Lasted 15 seasons.
4 shows cancelled by CBS due to high cost and low ratings.