"The great comedy tradition of Johnny Carson, Jay Leno and even David Letterman was ruined by a few arrogant heirs and woke CBS and ABC/Disney executives. They slowly and “woke-ly” suffocated late-night comedy.
Late-night hosts became angry Progressives. Like the legacy media, which had become just a propaganda wing of the Democrat Party, they lost their way. We need an honest, fourth estate (media). I would argue that political satire is the fifth estate. Giving one party a monopoly on either is bad.
The difference in what I do, (in which I state up front that I am a libertarian op-ed humorist) and what Kimmell and Colbert did is that they pretend to be independent arbiters of truth. Their networks are given free airways via the FCC (essentially, a monopoly for 3 channels) to go into almost every household in America.
Political satire, done well, can make people think and speak truth to power. When the Taliban took back Afghanistan when our ill-planned debacle there ended, the first person they killed was a comedian known for making fun of them. It is why I have a pistol by my bed.
Elon Musk opened up social media to a broad range of uncensored views when he bought Twitter, and the stranglehold died. Back then, if you questioned the Russia Hoax, election integrity and forced Covid vaccines you were deplatformed. Thank you Elon; you are a great African-American." . . .
The Satisfying Downfall of Stephen Colbert
"Then Donald Trump came along, and The Late Show became something very different.
"From his early days on The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, to the anti-Trump monologues, the election night meltdowns, the “fascist” rants, the voter insults, the CBS cancellation, and the final episode of The Late Show — this is the story of how Stephen Colbert’s comedy career turned into a decade-long obsession with Donald Trump. "CBS said the show ended for financial reasons. But for a host who built his entire late-night identity around attacking Trump, the timing made the ending impossible to ignore.
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