Posted on 08/05/2023 6:50:32 PM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1
Experts cite declining viewership of hosts like Colbert and Kimmel, begging the question if they're still relevant.
Political satirist Tim Young says their months-long absence makes it "easy to forget" about them.
"Their tired attempts at making funny news-based monologues that were always about Trump had become exhausting and unquotable, so they'd rarely even be covered by entertainment news anymore," Young told Fox News Digital. "Late night shows are so forgettable that I think people have just moved on... they just aren't missed." Viewership across the late-night landscape had been dropping long before the writers strike. In 2018, the midpoint of Trump's presidency, Colbert averaged 3 million viewers. In 2023, the "Late Show" audience fell to 2.1 million, losing nearly a third of viewers the process. Fallon lost almost half of his audience during the same timeframe, going from an average of 2.3 million viewers in 2018 to 1.3 million in 2023.
Kimmel, who notably expressed he didn't mind in 2017 if viewers were turned off by his liberal politics, shed roughly half a million viewers since 2018, averaging just 1.5 million this year.
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I catch Carson reruns on at 10 pm EDST.
Zero impact on my show watching.
Two possible results: (1) more babies will be born in seven months; and (2) people will get more sleep.
They were gone? I never knew.
Kimmel should move to MSNBC and do a political show instead.
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The only time I thought Kimmel was funny was when he co-hosted “The Man Show” with Adam Corolla. I’ve never thought Colbert was funny no matter what the topic he was trying to satirize.
Did not Greg Guttfield start a late show?
Goes to show just how unfunny these clowns are without their writers.
People have many other choices, and the whole of TV is suffering loss of viewers.
The internet/social-media, YouTube, Netflix, Amazon Prime, FreeVee, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and more.
The Covid ‘crisis’ didn’t help with people locked up at home and found all the other ways of being entertained
The strikes may be digging their own graves.
Video killed the radio star. Streaming movie channels and the internet killed the TV stars.
If people liked watching smug, arrogant, virtue signaling bastards telling lousy, unfunny “jokes” their ratings would be through the roof.
Heard any Joe Biden jokes? Study of late-night comics finds few
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/oct/19/heard-any-joe-biden-jokes-study-of-late-night-comi/
I didn't notice any lack of quality in the monologues. Carson actually did pretty good making light of the situation.
Greg Guttfield has the top rated night show - and it’s funny and conservative.
Howard Long threatened to kick Kimmel’s butt when Kimmel used to do the who’s-gonna-win segment. He got tired of Kimmel’s jokes.
Years ago, used to have a late show, when he was funny. Now, he has toned it down and is so-so, but much better than the liberal nitwits on the broadcast networks.
Youtube Carson reruns are the best.
I used to watch them with my Dad using a computer I built for him that had a video card tuned up for accurate pixel x pixel registry on his flat screen > 13 years ago.
I watch “Gunsmoke,” during late nights, so I’m good.
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