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[–] 143 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I can't wait for it to be replaced with nonstop infomercials for supplemental medicare.

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  • [–] 120 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    The jokes on them. people don't watch it on TV. They just look for the YouTube video with Stephen Colbert in it. He can do that on his own

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    YouTube with those kind of numbers every day is some real money. They could create an online only channel, not constrained by formats, which could have huge audiences, with the taping done during late night's time slots.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Assuming google doesn't start blocking it to please the dictator, of course.

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  • [–] 274 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    He called it. He said that this would happen in order for the deal to go through. They are trying to silence as many people as possible like any other fascist authoritarian countries.

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  • [–] 81 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    He’s done in March 2026 though.

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  • [+] 6 points 1 year ago* (3 children)
  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Oh, my bad, it is May. I hope just his show going off the air helps drive enough attention to whatever he does next.

    At least there’s a decent amount of time for his team to plan a new project, or leave the US or whatever.

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  • [+] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    As much as I would love an uncensored Colbert, HBO Max/Max/HBO already has John Oliver. And they kinda occupy the same entertainment niche. They are not going to cannibalize their own ratings of that big draw.

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  • [–] 72 points 1 year ago

    Firing Colbert and canceling his show, days after he criticized Paramounts Payola to Trump. Thats the "financial decision"

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  • [+] 132 points 1 year ago (9 children)
  • [–] 66 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    HBO should pick up both of them and their crew, and let someone other than John publicly eviscerate them during every show. HBO execs get off from the abuse! They could get 2x more of it, and less British accent!

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    No, they should all go to PBS so it's (for now) freely available to everyone. Have them ask for donations to keep it going, PBS/NPR would be good for at least a while.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Unfortunately HBO HBO MAX MAX HBO MAX is run by a complete moron.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Moron or not, they have John Oliver and despite him shitting on them on almost every show, he remains and persists. Honestly, this would be prime time to pick up these two cause their audience will follow them no matter where they go!

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  • [–] 111 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Highest rating show. Financial decision.

    Nah. All who oppose Trump will be silenced.

    Kimmel next

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  • [–] 54 points 1 year ago

    This was part of CBS' bribery payment, along with the $16 million to settle the 60 Minutes case, which would have been an easy win in court.

    ABC and CBS have been compromised and have paid bribes. When will he go after NBC?

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  • [–] 53 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    He criticized the surpreme leader? Probably lucky to still be alive...

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  • [–] 49 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Hey, gotta pay for their corrupt bribes somehow, right?

    Stephen deserves better, so does the audience, and I hope he spends the rest of the time there making the pus-sucking execs regret their bullshit. While I doubt they can feel shame or embarrassment, I'm confident he can find ways to make the stain set; and then move on to do something independent so I can support him, cause through ups and downs he's been a real one for a large part of my life. Mostly I hope Paramount actually dies of shame and fails entirely as a company, and the merger their executives burning this all for is a monkey's paw that gives them all gigaherpes and ass cancer.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    He should do what Conan did and bring back the Bugatti Veyron Mouse.

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    This sucks to see. Hopefully he’ll get picked up somewhere else and go back to a format closer to what the Colbert report used to be.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Yeah I didn’t really enjoy prim and proper corporate Colbert. His show was pretty mediocre. I believe it was also his decision to step away from his original persona and move on to a standard talk show host, so he actually wanted that change. Ferguson is still the GOAT for me.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I thought it was because Comedy Central had a claimed trademark or something regarding the character he played, but it's been a while so I might be misremembering

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    He didn’t want to mix the Colbert character with the Late Night show.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Irrelevant and refuted by Colbert's own words, but ok. Viacom quite literally wouldn't allow it.

    https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/stephen-colbert-colbert-report-character-915236/

    But on Wednesday night’s Late Show, the real Stephen Colbert indicated that Comedy Central’s legal team is barring his old character from appearing on CBS.

    “This is true, immediately after that show, CBS’ top lawyer was contacted by the top lawyer for another company to say that the character Stephen Colbert is their intellectual property,” the real Stephen Colbert said on Wednesday.

    He continued, “So it is with a heavy heart that I announce that thanks to corporate lawyers, the character Stephen Colbert, host of The Colbert Report, will never be seen again.”

    The audience began to boo but the Late Show host insisted there was nothing he could do.

    “I feel the same way, but what can I do? The lawyers have spoken. I cannot reasonably argue I own my face or name,” he said. “And as much as I’d like to have that guy on again, I can’t.”

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    That refers to a bit he did with the Colbert character over a year into the run of the show. He has said in various interviews that he chose not to do the Late Show in any character because he felt he’d done that and it would be disrespectful to the franchise.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    No way CBS would have allowed him to do the show in that character... Maybe a segment every now and then, but not entire episodes. Not on CBS.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    The Colbert Report would be difficult to reformulate due to Colbert’s prominence and the fact that he’s been, ahem…overt…with his political opinions since he gave up the character. As ridiculous as it sounds, a lot of people literally thought he was conservative when he was doing the character both on Daily Show and Colbert Report, which afforded him a lot of opportunity to play it up. I don’t think that would be the case if he went back. Plus, a few critical writers who contributed to segments like “The Word” moved on towards the end of Colbert Report, and I think they were really critical to the quality of the show that “Late Show” never quite matched…

    …Or maybe he could just dive right back in and it would be awesome. What do I know about show business I’m just some guy.

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  • [–] 111 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Criticized Trump. Had to go or the merger was not going to be approved by Trump's ass-suckers.

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  • [+] -66 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Or mb this echochamber isn't financially viable

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  • [+] -44 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Said "this" talking specifically about this one and not all of them. It s just that mainstream leftist political commentator are an endanger species. U got the place for 20 year it s simply normal that the opinion siwtch at one point

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    They’re going to speak Chinese on Mars because of this president.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Sure, in like four or five centuries maybe.

    All that science fiction with colonies across the solar system by 20XX (or even the 2100s), its more fiction than science. Any sort of colony on Mars or the Moon or the skies of Venus or whatever is gonna have to recreate a biosphere from scratch. That alone would take decades upon decades of work -- and that's only really possible after we stabilize the biosphere we already live in.

    First building an equilibrium with nature would give us the kind of expertise needed to actually make space colonies anything other than a pipe dream.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    There's a lot about life today that would feel like science fiction long ago. But we wouldn't get here without progress. Administrations like the current American one for example are an example of regression not progression.

    First building an equilibrium with nature would give us the kind of expertise needed to actually make space colonies anything other than a pipe dream.

    Yeah, we're definitely backtracking on that one.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Sure, modern tech allows for a lot of things that wouldn't otherwise be possible. But we've also hit a plateau when it comes to major developments in physics. Building a truly long term habitat (like, can last many multiple generations) is just flat out gonna take several lifetimes before any actual results come to bare. Maaaybe you can shave logistical stress off the margins with a space elevator, but we don't actually know how to build on of those.

    Short of some jarring, borderline miraculous breakthrough, we're not gonna see it in our lifetime. Hell, safe bet is our grandchildren won't either.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If he wants to continue he should just produce his show on his own and air it on YouTube. No one really watches broadcast tv anymore.

    Jon Stewart should do the same.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Google would probably cancel them there too if enough money exchanged hands between the right (err... wrong) people.

    Speaking of 'financial decisions,' CBS isn't entirely wrong there, money has to have exchanged hands somewhere for this to happen.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Holy shit, killing off the late show? It's an institution

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    TBF it only started because Letterman got fucked over and CBS wanted to compete with the Tonight Show. It's been around for a long time but not nearly as long as -- okay I'm old.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago*

    Nobody gives a shit about late night TV anymore but boomers. I mean the entire concept has been obsolete for years now due to streaming... Anyone under the age of 55 just watches clips on YouTube if anything from the show was worth watching.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago

    CBS is a bunch of trumps cucks.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    happened right after 16million lawsuit paid to trump by cbs, and after he criticized him.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It's because they want to do the Skydance merger.

    The "financial decision" is "We want money money money money, we'll do anything! Look! Look! We'll fuckin' fire one of our highest rating earners. You like that, Papa T? We did that to make you love us ;)"

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    kinda wierd people are denying its not because of trump in this thread, multiple subs are already reporting including other talk show host indicated it was a threat-based cancellation. some of the users got mad because nutrek was axed by paramount, eventhough the franchise in its current form is terrible other someone like kurtzman.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Yeah, but it is and it isn't, right?

    Companies will do all sorts of crazy stuff for mergers to work out. History is riddled with epic failures like this as well. Microsoft buying Nokia comes to mind. Mergers have sunk costs and emotional, ego-driven people at their core.

    So when something is sooooo close to happening and needs and just ONE more thing, approval from the FCC. In an environment where what truly does amount to a $16 million bribe isn't enough to get the last last last paper signed, Paramount will act irrational in the short term to get long term financial gains.

    Personally, I think it's a bluff. They'll cancel a decently rated show in its 11th season, with nothing to replace it at all...next year? Well the merger should be fine sooner than that, allowing time for Paramount to undo the cancelation.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    I feel like he just replaced Letterman a year or two ago and now the show is already ending. Where the hell did all the time go? How am I nearly 40 already?

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    That doesn't really confort me much, given that I just realized that it has been TEN YEARS since Letterman left! I hate how quickly time started moving when COVID first hit. Time never slowed back down, it never slowed back down!

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