“The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” died a natural death, a victim of its own hubris and economic realities.
There is nothing worth laughing at among the late-night hosts — just DNC talking points masquerading as comedy. So-called “comics” like Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel can only call Trump “dumb” and “orange” so many times. So, America stopped watching.
“The Late Show” spent $100 million a year in production costs to lose $40 million a year. Impressive, really. Colbert, who pretends to hate the rich, took home a reported $20 million of that — not exactly “sharing the wealth” with his staff. His guests (almost all left-wing, B-list entertainers or politicians) were free. The jokes and skits might have been written by the DNC or Big Pharma. If anything was spent on writers, they produced nothing of value.
How do you lose $40 million a year and somehow blame Trump when you are canned?
Sadly, Colbert, Kimmel and — to a lesser degree Fallon — have politicized the late-night format we historically loved. Carson, Leno and even Lettermen were funny and semi-balanced. Late-night hosts, once the neutral arbiter of the truth for the nation, willing to take shots at anyone and everyone, are now merely progressive mouthpieces.