He might have been funny when he first started. He’s only been annoying and preachy for the past few years. |
I still find him hilarious. Different strokes for different folks. I guess CBS was too afraid of Trump to keep him on. |
Bump! |
Six months and destruction of our key institutions. |
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His show was losing $40 million per year. |
Exactly the point. Gen Z doesn’t find network TV appealing. Therefore if you are an extremely expensive show, you need to work extra hard to draw in that audience. You cannot succeed if the average age of your audience is 65 and aging. Colbert stopped being funny years ago, and made no effort to stay relevant to new audiences. He catered almost exclusively to an aging audience of older white people. That is simply not survivable in the current media market. |
Most all celebrities and tv personalities are now. Everything went politically slanted around the late 2000s and went to crap. Most people tuned out. That's why even Hollywood is struggling now, too much politics. Bleh! |
His humor went down the drain like it was money lost making a late night show. |
If you’re a tv network, what are you supposed to do if your audience is mostly 55 and up? Should they just dissolve the business? Try to stay on the air, but tailor their shows toward younger people who don’t watch tv? Air programming that appeals to their actual audience? Colbert appeals to their actual viewers. We’ll see how many more viewers, especially young ones, they get with whatever replaces the Late Show. |
It’s was widely reported that Colbert’s Late Show struggled in ratings early on, but once he leaned into political commentary, his ratings took off and he’s done well compared to his competitors ever since then. |
Why cancel it now? Timing is very suspicious. |
Colbert went to crap. He cost the network $40 million a year and failed to developed new material for anyone under age 65. That’s what really happened here. |
Let’s face reality:
CBS will cancel Colbert and Trump will have the FCC approve the sale. |
Same! Love him. |