Embrace Hollywood!

Embrace Hollywood Frankly, My Dear 39 Comments

He was never funny.

He was the epitome of the downfall of late night comedy into what could be called late night clapter, where the applauding of conservative misfortunes replaced wit or cleverness. Under Colbert, The Late Show became an avenue for liberals to vent their frustration at conservatives through cathartic booing.

Colbert was the most likely of all the permanent late night hosts to bring on liberal guests. His show would have been a must-visit place for 2028 Democratic hopefuls. Even on this Thursday, Colbert is scheduled to have Sen. Adam Schiff on.

The future of light night is bleak. ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel has mused about retiring next year and is pessimistic about the state of the industry, a sentiment shared by NBC’s Seth Meyers. The death of late night was caused by many things, including increased competition that comes from streaming platforms and YouTube, but Colbert-like liberals also played a role. You can’t just write off half the country and expect a 30+ year-old institution to survive forever.

For old times’ sake.

39 Replies to “Embrace Hollywood!”

  1. This cancelation may have been caused by Colbert’s criticism of CBS’s settlement with Donald Trump over a lawsuit, which may have been motivated by CBS wanting a merger approval from the federal government.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzvx3L3DQb8

    In this particular case, I think Colbert had a good point. The lawsuit was based on a pretty dubious legal theory, and CBS should have fought it.

      1. My fault. I forgot that one must never criticize the Trump administration on this site, even indirectly.

        1. We would appreciate you remembering, that your CONSTANT bashing of every Trump success and WIN … WINNING!! Gets really old and tired.

          1. “Constant bashing”

            Hilarious. About once a week I might post something critical of Trump. To your hyperpartisan mind that’s constant bashing.

            Your hero isn’t much of a hero if he can’t take a little criticism.

        3. “Hilarious. About once a week I might post something critical of Trump. To your hyperpartisan mind that’s constant bashing.”

          Really? So how often do you post here and *not* criticize Trump in some way?
          Doesn’t even matter what the topic is, you’ll find a way somehow to bring President Trump into it and blame him for some imaginary failing.

          You fool no one, ‘concern troll’.

          1. Absolute BS. You’re making it up wholesale.

            You just don’t notice my other posts, either because they’re on topics that don’t interest you or because they don’t generate the requisite rage for you to notice.

        4. It’s not the criticism. It’s the lying. CBS acted with open and obvious dishonesty and malice, and that they will pay for doing it is about as far from dubious as law gets. The merger approval they seek is of a kind reserved for legitimate businesses, and they have gone some way to showing themselves illegitimate. To present this as CBS being coerced into bribery is flagrantly dishonest.

          So do you expect someone to notice your dishonesty and reward you? Can you expect anything other than enthusiastic pissing from we lesser denizens of the swamp?

          1. “CBS acted with open and obvious dishonesty and malice”

            This was not a defamation suit, and so the usual criteria don’t apply. Trump’s suit was based on a consumer protection law, which is extremely unusual and is why the suit would not likely have succeeded, at least on appeal.

            But no, you go ahead and call everyone a liar.

          2. You have no idea of the applicable law. When you pretend otherwise, you are lying. Again.

            I’m not calling everyone a liar. I’m calling you a liar, you lying piece of shit. You are doing this because you want to be recognized as a liar. If I’m making that painful for you, I’m delighted.

    2. I didn’t watch Colbert …
      I couldn’t get past his ear
      He was not funny.
      He was kinda like a nerd but with a low IQ

      1. I never watched any late night host, but he did post respectable ratings by today’s standards.

      2. He’s half elven — thus the ear.

        You’re not one of those nanophobes. are you?

    3. Perhaps. But who really cares? The happy thing is this douchenozzle scumbag is fired and that’s a great launch into the weekend.

      I forgot about the cringeworthiness of that vaccine skit and the shïtstain deserved to be fired for pushing that murderous propaganda alone.

      From YT comments:
      “That skit was written by the CIA” &
      “I wish he was making a western with alec baldwin”

      See ya, punk.

      mhb23re

  2. Fifteen years ago I found Colbert’s humour and wit entertaining.
    I’m not sure whether he changed or I changed, or both, but in time his program seemed to pander to a demographic that has outsourced most of their critical thinking.
    His audience acts like a bunch of trained seals, programmed to laugh at things that are not really funny or just plain mean-spirited. Laughter at someone else’s expense is not my idea of comedy.
    In time I reached the conclusion that Colbert’s program and others like it contribute to the deterioration in civility that we are increasingly surrounded by.

  3. Well, Colbert, Kimmel and Myers can always go back to stand up.
    Said no one ever.

    Colbert did a parody of a “Right Wing” entertainer years ago and people honestly thought he was that way in real life.
    Truth is he’s about as left as you can get.

    1. “Colbert did a parody of a “Right Wing” entertainer years ago and people honestly thought he was that way in real life.
      Truth is he’s about as left as you can get.”

      Haven’t watched CBS since he made the disgusting “Putin’s cock holster” remark and KEPT HIS JOB.

      I used to watch Jon Stewart back in the GW Bush days and liked his humour until I read an interview with him and suddenly realized that all the jokes and insults about Bush were not actually jokes to him: he was serious about his hatred for anything and everyone Republican. Turned him off and never went back. Same thing with that woman from This Hour Has 22 Minutes (or was it Codco back then?), when she would do her bit about Bush with the dolls to end the show; it suddenly dawned on me that she was using a funny voice and manipulating the dolls in a humorous way but she wasn’t actually *saying* anything amusing…she was just being insulting.
      Likewise for Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump impression on SNL: he was not even trying to be funny, just nasty and demeaning. Finally turned SNL off as well.

      I miss the days of comedians who didn’t allow their personal biases to affect their work.

    1. If an unfunny “entertainer” falls in the forest of Trump-hating lunatics … does it make a sound? Not that I will ever hear.

  5. The guys “humor” was grade school level crap. He is about as funny as a chapped ass.

  6. Good! Smarmy leftist prick..

    Q: Whats the difference between Stephen Colbert and a washing machine?

    A: Obama can dump a load in a washing machine, but it wont still be following him around, years later!

  7. Gutfeld and The Five on Fox are far more entertaining. The left always assume they are the smartest people in the room and that alone always leads to their failure.

    1. The problem with The Five, or Gutfield! is they are using the same formula as those we despise, who have essentially destroyed Late Night Comedy.
      Being heavily partisan leaves out a huge swath of audience. That said, it’s good TV watching them gang up on that moron Tarlov. Hell, even that lefty Ford isn’t a braindead doctrinaire leftard, he actually has conversations.
      Geez, whatever happened to a lefty actually having a conversation instead of going apocalyptic in 3 seconds?
      Carson was an equal opportunity satirist.
      Letterman, though a lefty, was careful to not go anywhere near the territory of Colbert, Yiminy Kimmel, and the rest of the idiot cabal.

    1. “Colbert couldn’t tell a joke even if it sat on his face and started pi$$ing.”

      Jimmy Kimmel is another one who needs to go. Seth Meyers as well.

      Jimmy Fallon was okay before they pressured him into taking their side.

  10. It all started to go downhill after Johnny Carson retired. Dave Letterman was the last one who was even slightly entertaining. If I want humour I will watch an episode of Family Guy I have seen 10 times before I will watch any of the current late-night talking heads.

  11. Spot on, to the previous comments.
    Yeh, Letterman and Jay Leno were the last of the TV stand-up comedians that I was able to watch with amusement.

  13. I always wanted to punch him in the face.
    Smug asshole.
    Reminds me of a lot of Canadians.

  14. This has completely come to a farcical full circle. I used to like the Colbert Report where he parodied a conservative host. Even as a conservative it was a funny show. One of the recurring skits he did was as a shill for a shady pharma company called Prescott Pharmaceuticals. Google it and watch the skits. Funny stuff. Then in a completely similar 180 on the Late Show, he did skits like the Vacc-Scene linked to with a totally straight face. As someone with a memory I lost complete respect for him when he did that.

  15. Colbert single-handedly destroyed the late night television on mainstream television networks.

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