News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee:
NEW YORK CITY — In a stunning example of rampant fascism, a TV network cancelled a show that wasn’t making any money and had terrible ratings.
“The Colbert Show spoke truth to power and its cancelation is a chilling example of the fascism that’s growing every day here in the U.S.A.,” online culture blogger Danielle Swanson wrote this week. “With Colbert off the air, there will not be one single late-night host left who will criticize Trump. Fascism has won.”
CBS announced this week it was cancelling The Late Show starring Steven Colbert, stating it was purely a business decision due to no one watching the show and its losing $40 million every year. However, journalists and Democratic politicians argued that the show’s 100-million-dollar budget had nothing to do with the cancellation and place the blame squarely at the feet of the Trump administration.
“My losing the company tens of millions of dollars every year is textbook fascism,” said Colbert. “That dastardly Trump has done it again!”
Go here to read the rest. Some people are saying that Colbert was an unfunny Left wing scold. In a way that is untrue. His pretense of being a devout Catholic while supporting abortion up to birth was humor of the darkest hue. Now he can practice his special type of humor on his own dime.
He and Biden. “Good Catholics.”
Good riddance.
Attending a weekday mass at a parish, the priest made it a point to praise Mr. Colbert as a “good catholic”.
After mass I waited to speak with the priest. When I found him an elderly woman was already there nervously attempting to explain reality and the priest being surly.
I came up and simply said “Colbert is an abortionist, he’s a huge supporter of abortion”.
The priest changed his surly tune, said he’d “check into that”; walking out the woman still shaken thanked me, and I said “oh no problem, my pleasure!”
Praising Mr.Colbert as a good Catholic in our around the Holy sacrifice of the Mass leads me to believe that the priest is in great need of prayer. To be supportive of this nation’s Holocaust via a national platform reaching multiple millions of people is damning to himself and his congregation. Scandalous is putting it mildly, imo.
Liturgy of the hours, recitation of the Holy rosary, Daily Mass….if the priest is neglecting these practices his chances of salvation for himself and his flock are lessened.
Pray Pray Pray
@ David WS. Good job.
Yet so many priests feel the daily homily is time to share their [shallow political] musings.
The Scripture readings, what?
I saw one clip where he said that it took 200 people to produce the “show”. No wonder it was losing money. Yet they will continue to burn money thru May 2026. I hope it gets more difficult and expensive so they can really show us how dedicated they are to their propaganda.
Sally Jessy Raphael’s show was cancelled in 2002 due to insufficient ratings. She was not pleased because she’d told her employees that the show would not be going off the air just yet. In relating this, she mentioned she had 150 employees.
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I’m recalling the radio talk show I listened to as a youth in Rochester. As far as I could tell from the host’s banter, those employed putting the show on were the host himself and a single technician. These late night shows are losing money hand over fist and one reason would appear to be sheer bloat.
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I’ve seen a couple of Colbert’s performances over the years. He did not strike me as even mildly amusing, just annoying. Why was he worth $20,000,000 a year?
Thirty pieces of silver or $20 million dollars a year. In the end it’s not about the amount. It’s the fact that you sold out truth even though at one time you knew who Truth was.
Sad.
If this happened just two years ago, there would have been silence.
Saying you are a good Catholic doesn’t make you a good one any more than saying you identify as a woman makes you one when you have y chromosomes. And if you have to tell someone you are, you’re doing it the wrong way.
I seem to recall that the stewards in the parables who lost money and did not produce were also not depicted favorably.
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Colbert is not funny. He has not been funny. He won’t be funny.
The broadcast networks have been bleeding viewership for years and they stand at less than 25% of total viewership. Entrenched in the NYC echo chamber, they know nothing else.
I have woken up early in my adult life, going back to a 7:40 start in high school and a part time job that started at 6:30 AM at times. So, I rarely watched any late night talk shows. As a small child, I can remember Steve Allen taking a mallet to something that looked like a stuffed animal snake…this is when my mom worked a shift that ended at 11:30 and she took us home from the hospital provided day care and this was almost 60 years ago. Therefore this bunch never had an impact in my life. Sounds like it has really gone downhill.
One very disconcerting claim I’ve seen is that the median age of the viewers of the program at the time David Letterman retired was 60 years and now the median age is 68 years. As we speak, about 14% of the general population is older than the Colbert audience median.
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In 1968, Lawrence Welk was in the middle of his long run as a television performer with a national audience. He was also just off the peak of his popularity. About 14% of the population was over the age of 60 at that time; Welk himself was 65; he was older than nearly all of his performers and there were in 1968 only a scatter within 15 years of his age.
At one point, I enjoyed SC’s humor very much. When he was on “The Daily Show”, he impressed me as a decent Catholic family man who was very funny.
Ironically, once he left “The Daily Show” for mainstream, network TV, the real man emerged and was such a disappointment.
We do not need faux catholics shilling for the opposition (i.e., the abortion/contraceptive industry). Which is not only a betrayal of Catholic teaching, but is, even on a non-religious level, pushing an agenda that endangers American women. The Pill is a Class1 carcinogen, which is a fact that is largely, purposefully overlooked by the media and the manufacturer. And abortion – which is a major, intrusive surgery – is mainly done in storefront “clinics” which are often filthy, unregulated, and uninspected by the local State authorities, rather than in hospitals, and which hustle the “mother” out within a couple of hours, having undergone surgery. Aside from the moral aspect, this is dreadfully dangerous.
And SC thinks this is something to cherish and protect and sees no conflict with pretending to be a thinking Catholic. SMH
Art, your post is more proof that the 40 and younger crowd have abandoned broadcast TV.
The first cracks in the wall started in the early 1980s with the proliferation of cable TV. Fast forward a decade and Direct TV grew by leaps and bounds. Finally, the Internet has laid waste to all of them, just like it did to travel agents, phone book publishers and malls.
This will catch up to pro and college sports. Already, NBA and NHL teams have almost all lost the big streams of money from regional sports networks due to cord cutting. My youngest son cares nothing for watching team sports. I’ve lost interest in all of them myself. Other than the teams playing, nobody cares about the World Series anymore.
It’s a very different world from what it was 50 years ago when I was 11 going on 12 and there is no going back.
Colbert is a stupid man. Oh, he made his money. He never has to work another day in his life. How he made it is an opportunity that is gone.
This will catch up to pro and college sports. Already, NBA and NHL teams have almost all lost the big streams of money from regional sports networks due to cord cutting. My youngest son cares nothing for watching team sports. I’ve lost interest in all of them myself. Other than the teams playing, nobody cares about the World Series anymore.
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You’re conflating two phenomena here. While we’re at it, 14 million people watched the most recent World Series. The market cap of the 30 major league teams is $78 bn. Someone is taking an interest.
Did Colbert ever put anything this camp on the air? Game, Set, Match Welk.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8tdmaEhMHE