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Dead in the water...

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radi ... yron-allen

Stephen Colbert’s Late Show replacement is a depressing sign of the times

The applause, dear God, the applause. It has you bracing against the headboard and groping for the remote when Comics Unleashed detonates on to the screen just before midnight. A soulless barrage of whoops, cheers and apparatchik-grade terror clapping, it hits like a jet engine at takeoff, swallowing the show’s disembodied announcer in a silo of his own manufactured zaniness.

The applause snuffs out introductions to the guests, all standup comics – a who’s who of who’s that – and upstages a modest studio audience that appears to have been rounded up from pamphlet-clutching LA tourists. It even leaves the host himself, 65-year-old Byron Allen, limply shuffling to reclaim the frame as the show’s cameras whip around him from every conceivable angle. In the reverse shots, you can already see the night’s guests parked in the makeshift waiting-room set up at stage left, apparently settled in for Allen’s monologue. But there is no monologue. Comics Unleashed has no writers, no comic sensibility, no discernible point of view – because CBS bent the knee to Donald Trump, and Allen makes Jimmy Fallon look like Eugene Debs.

ROG62 » 31 May 2026, 7:57 am » wrote: ↑

31 May 2026, 7:57 am

what were they thinking? Oh yeah, the $40,000,000 in annual losses of that time slot…

Very true....The $40M loss happened with Colbert hosting.   That’s why CBS made the move.It wasn’t about ratings. It was about the math, something Slack Jaw ain't good at..............

Blackvegetable » 30 May 2026, 5:53 am » wrote: ↑

30 May 2026, 5:53 am

MR-7 » 30 May 2026, 5:46 am » wrote: ↑

30 May 2026, 5:46 am

Stephen Colbert announces he’s bouncing and the numbers go UP. Imagine being so chronically unfunny that your absence is the first joke that lands in years. CBS didn’t lose a host... they lost a ratings anchor. Viewers didn’t tune in to say goodbye. The audience returned...like...the hostage situation is over. CBS execs pretending to be sad is the funniest thing he’s ever inspired. They’re already measuring the studio for someone who can tell a joke. The article calls it a “ratings plot twist.” The only twist is that it took this long for people to realize they didn’t actually like the show. Colbert leaves...ratings rise...CBS smiles politely...internet laughs...Colbert fans insist it’s a coincidence...math disagrees. And that’s the whole story. The man walked out… and the audience walked back in

Viewership cratered...

 

You are supposed to a big time business man.  Losing 40 million dollars a year is not good business.

MR-7 » 31 May 2026, 9:20 am » wrote: ↑

31 May 2026, 9:20 am

Very true....The $40M loss happened with Colbert hosting.   That’s why CBS made the move.It wasn’t about ratings. It was about the math, something Slack Jaw ain't good at..............

While above water ratings doesn’t always equate to profit, but below water ratings guarantees losses…

Huey » 31 May 2026, 9:23 am » wrote: ↑

31 May 2026, 9:23 am

You are supposed to a big time business man.  Losing 40 million dollars a year is not good business.

agreed…I bet they regretted signing him for $20,000,000 once the show cratered…
 

DeezerShoove » 31 May 2026, 6:13 am » wrote: ↑

31 May 2026, 6:13 am

Smug, smarmy . . . repetitive punchlines.
Stupid sycophants needing narrative reinforcement make up his audience.
But you're still 100% correct. That's how **** Colbert was. Great measuring stick.

kimmel is funnier and he is always 100 per cent right, that is why he is so funny

JohnnyYou » 31 May 2026, 8:21 am » wrote: ↑

31 May 2026, 8:21 am

Dead in the water...

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radi ... yron-allen

Stephen Colbert’s Late Show replacement is a depressing sign of the times

The applause, dear God, the applause. It has you bracing against the headboard and groping for the remote when Comics Unleashed detonates on to the screen just before midnight. A soulless barrage of whoops, cheers and apparatchik-grade terror clapping, it hits like a jet engine at takeoff, swallowing the show’s disembodied announcer in a silo of his own manufactured zaniness.

The applause snuffs out introductions to the guests, all standup comics – a who’s who of who’s that – and upstages a modest studio audience that appears to have been rounded up from pamphlet-clutching LA tourists. It even leaves the host himself, 65-year-old Byron Allen, limply shuffling to reclaim the frame as the show’s cameras whip around him from every conceivable angle. In the reverse shots, you can already see the night’s guests parked in the makeshift waiting-room set up at stage left, apparently settled in for Allen’s monologue. But there is no monologue. Comics Unleashed has no writers, no comic sensibility, no discernible point of view – because CBS bent the knee to Donald Trump, and Allen makes Jimmy Fallon look like Eugene Debs.

kimmel will wipe anyhting in the timeslot so they did not even try,

DeezerShoove » 31 May 2026, 6:13 am » wrote: ↑

31 May 2026, 6:13 am

Smug, smarmy . . . repetitive punchlines.
Stupid sycophants needing narrative reinforcement make up his audience.
But you're still 100% correct. That's how **** Colbert was. Great measuring stick.

trump stays up all night posting on truth social and falls asleep in the day

so funny

JohnnyYou » 31 May 2026, 8:21 am » wrote: ↑

31 May 2026, 8:21 am

Dead in the water...

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radi ... yron-allen

Stephen Colbert’s Late Show replacement is a depressing sign of the times

The applause, dear God, the applause. It has you bracing against the headboard and groping for the remote when Comics Unleashed detonates on to the screen just before midnight. A soulless barrage of whoops, cheers and apparatchik-grade terror clapping, it hits like a jet engine at takeoff, swallowing the show’s disembodied announcer in a silo of his own manufactured zaniness.

The applause snuffs out introductions to the guests, all standup comics – a who’s who of who’s that – and upstages a modest studio audience that appears to have been rounded up from pamphlet-clutching LA tourists. It even leaves the host himself, 65-year-old Byron Allen, limply shuffling to reclaim the frame as the show’s cameras whip around him from every conceivable angle. In the reverse shots, you can already see the night’s guests parked in the makeshift waiting-room set up at stage left, apparently settled in for Allen’s monologue. But there is no monologue. Comics Unleashed has no writers, no comic sensibility, no discernible point of view – because CBS bent the knee to Donald Trump, and Allen makes Jimmy Fallon look like Eugene Debs.

when kimmel comes on he has to beg them to stop applauding.

jerrab » 31 May 2026, 2:24 pm » wrote: ↑

31 May 2026, 2:24 pm

when kimmel comes on he has to beg them to stop applauding.

To be honest, some how late night got deprogrammed from my brain a couple of years ago.

A lot of the liberal **** is just becoming click bait.

Capt AL Gorerythm..   He runs the show..   Some of the music I have been introduced to is amazing to me.

Vincen Garcia has to be the greatest Bass Player of all time..

I was introduced to this one a few minutes ago..  Best Soprano I have ever heard..  Official Fruitcake Music..  I am wondering if Cory Wong does movies..

youtu.be/hwOwJNmiswo?si=fVSi5VvsnO9Gj-7x






G

JohnnyYou » 31 May 2026, 8:16 am » wrote: ↑

31 May 2026, 8:16 am

Not Dead Yet...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lyj7whWEAzM

once he became unfunny after Comedy Central, I really couldn’t give a ****…

ROG62 » 31 May 2026, 6:01 pm » wrote: ↑

31 May 2026, 6:01 pm

once he became unfunny after Comedy Central, I really couldn’t give a ****…

The road to miserable unhappiness is short..   Everyone loves the company of fellow haters..

Ride the Wind ROG..  Trump Farts ain't going to make the windmill spin.   Rise of the Ancient Flatulators...

https://youtu.be/e3-5YC_oHjE?si=9AXdZjdsuBXan6BC


 

JohnnyYou » 31 May 2026, 6:17 pm » wrote: ↑

31 May 2026, 6:17 pm

The road to miserable unhappiness is short..   Everyone loves the company of fellow haters..

Ride the Wind ROG..  Trump Farts ain't going to make the windmill spin.   Rise of the Ancient Flatulators...

https://youtu.be/e3-5YC_oHjE?si=9AXdZjdsuBXan6BC

Hey, he was great as Colbert Nation…then he sold his soul to the devil for 30 shekels…
 

ROG62 » 31 May 2026, 11:30 pm » wrote: ↑

31 May 2026, 11:30 pm

Hey, he was great as Colbert Nation…then he sold his soul to the devil for 30 shekels…

Alito and Thomas sold the Constitution to the Devil..   I heard they backtracked this weekend on the immunity and said the $10 Billion Dollar Law suit against the IRS and subsequent "settlement" with himself for the 1.776 slushy anti weaponization fund does not fall under the purview of the immunity they provided.   He is on his own.. And Todd Blanche can't be his **** lawyer and his prosecutor.

This storm shall too pass.

youtu.be/U1_EDIewFco?si=5vh9Olw8DbjhwcBC
 

Blackvegetable » 30 May 2026, 5:53 am » wrote: ↑

30 May 2026, 5:53 am

MR-7 » 30 May 2026, 5:46 am » wrote: ↑

30 May 2026, 5:46 am

Stephen Colbert announces he’s bouncing and the numbers go UP. Imagine being so chronically unfunny that your absence is the first joke that lands in years. CBS didn’t lose a host... they lost a ratings anchor. Viewers didn’t tune in to say goodbye. The audience returned...like...the hostage situation is over. CBS execs pretending to be sad is the funniest thing he’s ever inspired. They’re already measuring the studio for someone who can tell a joke. The article calls it a “ratings plot twist.” The only twist is that it took this long for people to realize they didn’t actually like the show. Colbert leaves...ratings rise...CBS smiles politely...internet laughs...Colbert fans insist it’s a coincidence...math disagrees. And that’s the whole story. The man walked out… and the audience walked back in

Viewership cratered...

 

Hey, alleged business man, is it good to lose 40+ million a year?

Huey » 01 Jun 2026, 5:19 am » wrote: ↑

01 Jun 2026, 5:19 am

Hey, alleged business man, is it good to lose 40+ million a year?

Hue Boo..     Peter Thiel took the money and run..

The facts is as the facts be..
 

JohnnyYou » 31 May 2026, 2:28 pm » wrote: ↑

31 May 2026, 2:28 pm

Vincen Garcia has to be the greatest Bass Player of all time..


 

Wonderful, that puts him somewhere below the greatest tomato grower of all time.

Your priorities are really skewed, you make a great Dim-o-Crat.

Huey » 01 Jun 2026, 5:19 am » wrote: ↑

01 Jun 2026, 5:19 am

Hey, alleged business man, is it good to lose 40+ million a year?

Blackvegetable » 01 Jun 2026, 7:24 am » wrote: ↑

01 Jun 2026, 7:24 am

Huey » 01 Jun 2026, 5:19 am » wrote: ↑

01 Jun 2026, 5:19 am

Hey, alleged business man, is it good to lose 40+ million a year?

 

I guess you are still not answering questions today.

 

Huey » 01 Jun 2026, 7:33 am » wrote: ↑

01 Jun 2026, 7:33 am

I guess you are still not answering questions today.

It would begin with you demonstrating that CBS was losing 40 million per year.

Everyone knows that CBS has asserted it...

But no one has seen the evidence.