Friday, July 18, 2025
Thoughts on the future of late night tv
[“‘Dig-a-hole department’: ten-year-old crap program, Steven Colbert late show is cancelled (next may), which cnn’s Erin Burnett says is due to “criticism of cbs’ Trump/60 minutes”]
By Grand Rapids Anonymous
friday, july 18, 2025 at 2:59:00 a.m edt
cbs is probably eager to install a late night news (propaganda) show opposite nightline.
“Someone” is destroying tv as we knew it, even a mere 20-25 years ago. Frasier was still on, Drew Carey Show, Friends, House, and many more.
Music and movies are as unentertaining as they could possibly be in 2025. Why?
The industries turned from White-based product to black in both areas. TV news—“they’re” working on now—and prime-time programming. Commercials are mostly black. These ad people don’t get sick of making black ads all the time?
Incredible loss of quality in every area.
I’ve said it before: What used to make America great were the White people we saw on tv, in the movies, and listened to on radios or albums. Talented guys like Bacharach/David, Rogers/Hammerstein, Wayne, Eastwood, Huntley/Brinkley, Groucho, Sinatra, Dean Martin roasts, so many top notch performers. blacks were funnier back then—Redd Foxx, Flip Wilson—but Whites were the great stars. If you destroy these industries, what makes people laugh and music they can hum to, you destroy the country, which is just what happened.
--GRA
By Grand Rapids Anonymous
friday, july 18, 2025 at 11:34:00 a.m. edt
This isn’t a happy country anymore, as it was in 1991, 1981, 1971, 1961, 1951. A giant bounty paper towel came down and absorbed the life out of it—for the reasons I listed above.
--GRA
By Jerry PDX
friday, july 18, 2025 at 4:10:00 p.m. edt
I’m surprised they haven’t blacked up the late-night talk show hosts. The only two black late-night talk show hosts I can think of were Arsenio Hall and Byron Allen, both unfunny, which is probably why their shows failed. As long as the current White hosts stay woke and shove plenty of negroes in our faces, maybe the networks will keep them White. Or maybe they’ve got a negro waiting in the wings to replace Colbert.
By Grand Rapids Anonymous
friday, july 18, 2025 at 5:22:00 p.m. edt
O’Reilly made a quick comment about Colbert’s future firing by pointing out that “network viewership has dropped below 20% for the first time—and will head lower.”
46% do streaming, 20% watch cable, and 19% watch network tv with the rest— “other.”
“why?”asked the host to himself.
“because network tv is liberal and boring.”
Woke tv=boring, very true. Plus the “boring” part is repetitive, constantly placing blacks as superior over Whites. The situations change but the song remains the same: blacks are portrayed as chief surgeons, big shot business people, movers and shakers, sensible, non-violent characters. Whiteys—if they’re lucky—fetch coffee or get to “learn” about things by watching blackie save the world.
That must be why I’ve seen only one black on Jeopardy this year. It’s the complete opposite impression of what the networks want you to believe with their various show plots.
--GRA
By Abolish Tenure
friday, july 18, 2025 at 7:28:00 p.m. edt
1) Oh! a nightline clone, excellent speculation. A place for the resistance yappers to yap some more without the hassle of putting weirdo Colbert at the center of everything. As well as a dumpster to put personalities they’re trying to ease out. Let’s see, if they want to get rid of Gayle King’s $12 million salary and the friction on the morning show set, would saying “Gayle, your nation and your people need you to be there for them at 11:30 p.m.,” that might do the trick.
6) (moved up here from the bottom) OK, time to climb out on the limb. I’ll predict it’s Stephen A. Smith who grabs the gig as what he thinks is his ticket as a step up to a bigger platform to build his case for a presidential run in ‘28. That’s a winner for the execs who put the deal together, too: die star with perceived gravitas and an established pattern of getting attention from all the rest of the media. All the big dems will be clamoring to be his guests. Smith can mildly push back on minor points here and there and build his Centrist mystique. (Corollary prediction: The Hoft Brothers will take the bait.)
2) Someone said long ago – it was so long ago that Rush quoted them – as saying the network execs no longer intended late-night comedy shows to draw ratings or profits. So Colbert isn’t being canceled because of money.
3) Yes, any replacement has to be blacker, for sure. Arsenio, et al. were unfunny, yes, but they probably think a hip urban vibe will get buzz and viewers. A bandleader of color, too, but central personalities of color are a must, just like the morning shows.
4) “a giant bounty paper towel.” YES! The sicker picker-upper.
5) Get real, headline-writers! Nine months notice of termination doesn’t count as “fired.”
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When Letterman left,I gave Colbert a chance,because the alternative was nbc's Fallon--unpalatable for any amount of time. Colbert was quicker than Fallon with adlibs,but when Trump won in 2016,Colbert's focus quickly went to "Trump jokes"--"Trump insults",actually. They got meaner and the 10 minute monologues were consumed ,99% of the time,by Trump. Then Colbert would move to the desk and talk about Trump even more--maybe a skit. The guest would come out--more Trump convo.
If you took another topic--say eggs--and talked about eggs every night,for most of your show,your audience would decrease to a base group of egg farmers in Iowa and even THEY would turn off the set--as I did early.
And it's "lazy comedy"-especially when there are so many other politicians/celebrities/news stories to joke about. Carson was the video instruction manual for "fair and balanced" monologues.
So no loss. And yes,Smith is a candidate,but cbs has enough blacks of their own to plop on a chair and spew the crappola--without having to hire "joke writers".
Money saved--which they can contribute to Zohran--or whomever hates America the most,in their opinion.
--GRA
Yeah, the stephen a. smith hypothesis, the more you think about it, the more the pieces fit. Outkick opinion piece predicting espn would regret the new deal. And smith too, don't you think? This network isn't big enough for my talents. And espn would to get out of the remaining $80 million or whatever on his contract.
Meanwhile you have cbs execs thinking a nightline show is their ticket to a big (Christmas, there, I said it) bonus and best of all is if they can get a known dei name that doesn't look like a dei hire to put on marquee of that theater named for a white guy (Ed Sullivan) would be a plus. But they don't want to put a flighty unfunny comedian in the chair. So they design a nighttime gig around smith that lets him paint the self-portrait he wants the public to see. Just enough sports content to make it seem semi-credible, a quirky co-host who's cool with yielding to the big star, enough entertainment guests to keep the low-info tmz demo, and then politicians and newsgeeks he can use to his advantage. Give him the prestige of side gigs on weekend sports plus commentator cameos on sunday mornings and maybe 60 minutes or an evening news 30-second opinion spot, almost like he's the new face of cbs. Look, Ma, it's the 2028 pre-campaign! 2026 oh wow, he's the 21st century bryant gumbel and isn't he great doing deep interviews with celebrities and authors and politicians and occasionally subbing as evening news anchor. In 2027 cement up the "centrist" myth for political ambitions, some sister souljah moments, even some gotcha interviews of newsom and beshear (Hoft Bros. will be beside themselves, always taking the bait), and puff pieces across mainstream media saying this is amazing, this is the guy who can heal our country's deep divisions, why, he might even be as intelligent as obama.
2028? as always, never underestimate the Republicans' ability to trip over their own feet.
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