Next spring, "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" will be gone, and recently "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" was suspended but is now back on the air. The Left is trying to blame Trump for those things but the bigger picture tells a different story:
the irony: it's free speech's fault all their shows imploded pic.twitter.com/d5Ej4RaTWK
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) September 19, 2025
That downfall is to a large degree because late night "comedy" has become propaganda programs for the Democrats. As Johnny Carson once noted, you can't have a successful show when you're alienating at least half the country on a nightly basis (or pretty much calling them supporters of a Nazi like Colbert does, or saying "one of them" assassinated Charlie Kirk as Kimmel did).
Some of the current crop of late-night hosts didn't heed that advice, and in the above graph you can see the result.
Now if anybody tunes into Colbert, Kimmel or Meyers there's a good chance you'll see this kind of "entertainment":
Here's a simple but true thing.
— Chris Murphy 🟧 (@ChrisMurphyCT) September 26, 2025
Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy. pic.twitter.com/B55eosEMTw
The Connecticut Democrat having an agreeable budget discussion with a late night host whose show is being canceled at least partly because it reportedly loses at least $40 million a year is somewhat symbolic. But at least Colbert had a Republican on later to provide a rebuttal to Murphy's BS. Wait, no he didn't.
Joe Concha remembers where things started for late night vs. where they've gone:
We’ve going to the Top-10 list and Stupid Pet Tricks and Rickels roasting Sinatra to senators droning on about budget shutdowns and destroying democracy, if wondering why Colbert will be history at CBS in May. https://t.co/0KTKa1Avwq
— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) September 27, 2025
At least three of the late-night shows are therapy sessions for libs with incurable cases of TDS.
I haven’t watched a late night show since Leno
— J J Younger (@JJYounger2) September 27, 2025
Me neither.
Why do you democrats never say constitutional republic?
— Carlton Hinds (@methuselaschild) September 27, 2025
Never mind. I know why…
It makes a little more sense when people like Murphy lecture about saving "democracy" when we remember they define that word as "Democrats." And they are 100 percent the target demographic of the current alphabet network late-night shows.
