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Caloroga Shark Media. Yes it’s another Stephen Colbert based a bonus episode. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. On The Late Show Monday night, Stephen Colbert responded to Donald Trump. You may recall that Trump was happy that the Late Show was ending.
Colbert said, how dare you, sir? Would an untalented man be able to compose the following satirical wisdom. Colbert then turned to a different camera labeled Eloquence Cam and declared, go f yourself. Oh, there were a lot of F bombs last night. We will get to that.
In his monologue, Stephen Colbert said, folks, so I’m gonna go ahead and say it. Cancer culture has gone too far. He then talked about how he can go scorched earth over the next ten months until the show ends and said, the gloves are off, I can finally speak unvarnished truth to power and say what I really think about Donald Trump. Starting now. He looks into the camera and says, I don’t care for him.
Colbert thanked CBS for its support throughout the years, but then, but how could it be purely a financial decision? If the Late Show’s number one in ratings. It’s confusing. A lot of folks are asking that question, mainly my staff’s parents and spouses. He noted that CBS quote followed up their gracious press release with a gracious anonymous leak and then showed screenshots of sources telling The New York Post that the show loses between forty and fifty million dollars a year.
Colbert said, forty million’s a big number. I could see us losing twenty four million. But where would Paramount have possibly spent the other sixteen million With those numbers, I gotta say it makes sense would be canceled. I get it, guys, and thanks again, Okay, thanks to the network outcome. I guess weird.
Al Yankovic and Lin Manuel Miranda. They came out to play some cold play. Then the camera panned through the audience and caught various duos in the audience including C A NX, Anderson Cooper and Bravos, Andy Cohen, NBC’s Jimmy Fallon and Seth Myers, John Oliver with John Stewart, and Adam Sandler with Christopher MacDonald also in the audience. T I’m the insult comic Dog. Then any camera up and to a cartoon of Trump hugging the Paramount logo.
A producer hands Colbert a piece of paper. He says, stop playing. I’m sorry. I just got this note from corporate. Your song has been canceled.
It says here this is purely a financial decision. It says that since you started playing that song, the network has lost and I don’t know how this is possible forty to fifty million dollars. Miranda said, that’s impossible. That song was a number one song. Tell me this has nothing to do with who we just put a spotlight on.
Colbert said, there’s nothing here that mentions that Colbert told Lynn and weird Al. The note says some very nice things about you guys, performance, quality, stature, irreplaceable, signed yours truly the Paramount Family of Global Entertainment Properties and AI Weapons Systems. On The Daily Show, John Stewart said, I’m not giving in. I’m not going anywhere. I think.
Let’s listen to pieces of John’s monologue. I have absolutely trimmed this down. It does get a tad naughty at one point not too bad, and John increasingly dropped f bombs, which I trimmed of. You may or may not know. Stephen and I worked together on this very program.
Both of our shows reached an inflection point in twenty fifteen. Stephen chose to challenge himself by seeing if he could succeed the legendary David Letterman, and quite frankly, a much bigger pond than the one he and I had been swimming in. And I quit, I quit. I quit. Stephen challenged him, I passed away.
Stephen challenged his abilities in the biggest field you could, and I literally went to a farm upstate.
And now, and now Stephen has been canceled for purely financial reasons.
And by the way, not just Stephen’s show, CBS has canceled the entire of the late show franchise Gone now, I acknowledge losing money. Late night TV is a struggling financial model. We are all basically operating a blockbuster Kiosk inside of a Tower Records. But when your. Industry is faced with changes, you don’t just call it a day.
My god, when cens stopped selling, they didn’t just go, oh, well, music, it’s been a good run. The fact that CBS didn’t try to save their number one rated network late night franchise, that’s been on the air for over three decades. Is part of what’s making everybody wonder was this purely financial or maybe the path of least resistance for your eight billion dollar merger. Look, I understand the corporate fear. I understand the fear that you and your advertisers have with eight billion dollars at stake, but understand this truly, the shows that you now seek to cancel, censor in control, A not insignificant portion of that eight billion dollar value came from those shows.
That’s what made you that money. Shows that say something, shows that take a stand, shows that are unafraid and not to believe me. This is not a we speak truth to power. We don’t we speak opinions to television cameras, but we try every night. And if you believe, as corporations or as networks, you can make yourselves so innocuous that you can serve a gruel so flavorless that you will never again be on the Boy King’s radar A why will anyone watch you?
And you are wrong? David Letterman has weighed in on his own way. On Letterman’s YouTube account, he posted multiple Colbert and CBS related videos. He then put out a twenty minute super cut making fun of the network decaption you can’t spell CBS without BS. It’ll be interesting when Letterman actually speaks about this.
Jimmy Kimmel, who’s on family vacation, slamm Donald Trump. From said vacation. Kim Will shared a family photo from an anti Trump protest and referenced a two thousand and three letter that the president allegedly wrote to Jeffrey Epstein. Kimmell’s Instagram caption read, may every day be another wonderful secret, which references a line from the letter that Trump allegedly wrote, according to The Wall Street Journal. In the photo, Kimmel and wife Molly are pictured in anti Trump shirts, each member of the families holding a sign.
Phrases include don’t bend the knee, make America good again, and I wish we had a better president. Jimmy Fallon opened up his show saying, I am your host, well at least for tonight. I don’t like what’s going on one bit crazy times. In the monologue, fell in joke to Seebeest could lose millions of viewers plus tens of hundreds watching on Paramount. Plus Stephen has done years of incredibly smart and hilarious television, and he’s won ten Emmys.
Trump heard this and was like, big deal. Last week I won a FIFA World Cup trophy. More than eighty seven thousand people have signed a petition on move on dot org demanding the Late Show stay on the air. Eighty seven Thousand’s not going to do it. Late Nighter had some other numbers.
On Tuesday morning. They say, at last count, more than two dozen different petitions had sprung up on change dot org, collectively drawing over thirty six thousand signatures. That’s not going to do it. They add that a petition on the Progressive Change Campaign Committee has passed one hundred and twenty thousand signatures. All that adds up to roughly the two hundred thousand people in the eighteen to forty nine’s that were watching the show.
Many things can be true at once. We can all support Stephen Colbert, we can all have our spidy senses up about the merger stuff. But also, if the numbers are anywhere near accurate, there’s a lot of money to lose for two hundred thousand people in the eighteen to forty nine says the guy who’s older than that. Demo outside the ed Sullivan Theater on Monday afternoon, a group of protesters assembled, chanting Colbert stays Trump must go. They were organized by a group called Refuse Fascism.
One of the organizers told WCBS News, we are trying to wake up the people. Too many people accepting this and saying, you know, Colbert will miss you. Actually, we can’t accept this. This is illegitimate. Prior to the protest, they had circulated a flyer which said this has the pungent odor of appeasement to fascism, unconscionable.
Andy Cohen, I think is speaking truth and logic. He said, so suddenly, the show’s losing forty million dollars a year and they’re going to cancel it. Typically, what would happen if a show’s losing money that is also super important to the network. What they would probably do is say, listen, Steve In, your show’s losing x amount of money a year. There’s two things we could do.
We could cut the budget in half, maybe move out of the ed Sullivan Theater, do the show in a small studio. Cut down on staff. You have two hundred people working here. We needed to be one hundred or sixty. Instead of doing your show five days a week, we’re gonna do your show four days pre take your Thursday show, so you’re actually in production three days a week.
That’s a way right there, to cut the budget at least in half. I don’t know about half. I’d have to look at the numbers, but yeah, that doesn’t sound crazy to me. Cohen continued as opposed to saying out of nowhere, as Colbert portrayed it, they called him and said, your show’s losing money. We’re canceling it a year.
Instead, they’re turning the lights out completely at eleven thirty, which says to me, CBS is just cooked. I mean it’s cooked. They’re saying we’re done. Letterman’s old producer, Robert Nett till deadline when we started the Late Show in nineteen ninety three. We have the same goals.
Everyone doing talk shows has make people laugh and never threaten a corporate merger. If Colbert ad been number one at an Emmy two days prior, none of this would have happened for Night ads. While the financial landscape of Late Night has undeniably changed, I don’t think you dismissed a talent like Stephen Colbert in this manner, it just doesn’t make sense. Steven is as good as it gets. He’ll be heard from for many years to come.
They should choose their adversaries more wisely. That is your bonus episode today. If you missed it, there was a normal episode in the feed earlier today, and I’ll be back tomorrow morning with your regular Daily Comedy News. See then.