Tweets Elizabeth Warren, showing us this clip of Colbert critiquing the $16 million deal:
AND: From last night's show:
CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery.
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) July 18, 2025
America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.
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His viewers have left him for less entertaining, lower IQ, and more biased YouTubers, TikTokers and other internet dwellers. Correlated? Yes. Causal? No.
The show sucks. Full stop. For an example Google “The Vax-Scene”.
He's not funny and his ratings are shit. But they are dragging out his demise to next MAY. Yikes. His only guest last night was Adam Schiff. Who do they think wants to see that?
Why, exactly, does America need to know why a low-rated TV show was cancelled? Shows get cancelled all the time for all sorts of reasons.
They wanted to cancel it. That's all the reason anybody is entitled to.
Oh yeah, the Vax dancing! A pro-jab musical to lift the spirits. Which was staged just a few months after he spent several nights saying he would not and YOU should not trust the "Trump vaccine." What a nutty flip flop to inflict on your "fans."
“His only guest last night was Adam Schiff. Who do they think wants to see that?”
I imagine even Mrs. Schiff recoils at watching that.
The Vax Shimmy… who does that!?
Colbert does that.
CBS edited Kamala interview... not just a little.
Really - dedicated leftists - do f off.
Adam Schitt deserves pain and suffering.
@Iman, he should do the Vax-Scene on his way out. I'm sure that will convince the network they made a mistake.
Sure, Liz. That's how you silence someone--you keep them on the air and continue to pay them for ANOTHER YEAR after they criticize you.
By the way, Steven--nobody 'bought' CBS's 'dignity' for $16 Million, CBS PAID TRUMP $16 Million. Moron writers.
CBS edited Kamala interview... not just a little.
It's worse than that: CBS News edited the Kamala interview in such a way as to falsely portray her answers to the questions in a failed attempt to rig our elections. It has done this MANY times before (see Rathergate, which featured CBS News forging Texas Air National Guard memos in a failed attempt to prevent the election of George W. Bush).
CBS's broadcast license was granted to it by the people of the United States in 1934. The people own the electromagnetic spectrum that was gifted to CBS O&Os to operate "in the public interest."
Donald Trump should order his FCC chairman Brenden Carr to revoke these licenses, as CBS is clearly NOT acting in the public interest. Attempting to rig our national elections is not in the public interest.
That broadcast spectrum should then be auctioned off to the highest bidder and the funds returned to the American people.
In the scheme of things that are important… this is not.
"His viewers have left him for more entertaining, higher IQ YouTubers, TikTokers and other internet dwellers."
Fixed it for you.
Schiff telling Trump to “Piss off”?
Schiff has gone from hoaxes about Trump pissing on to bullying him to piss off?
Schiffless, bullschiffing piece of schiff
It’s hard to believe that it was strictly a financial decision in light of Paramount’s capitulation to Trump to gain his approval for the Skydance merger. Colbert speculated on-air that he might be a casualty of Trumpist censorship.
I don’t know a soul who thinks this guy is funny or entertaining. At yet Commie-Pinko Zoe Lofgren invited this twit to testify before congress.
TV Shows get cancelled all the time. I cried when they cancelled McHale's Navy.
The entire Demosphere holds its breath...What would Joe Rogan do?
Kakistocracy said...
It’s hard to believe that it was strictly a financial decision in light of Paramount’s capitulation to Trump to gain his approval for the Skydance merger. Colbert speculated on-air that he might be a casualty of Trumpist censorship.
CBS is owned by the Redstone family.
A particularly loathsome bunch of old money Oligarchs who hate the US and have been trying to turn it into Mexico for a long time.
It is nice to see the little Oligarch pet come out and defend the broadcast giant as it falls into ruin and disrepute.
One of Trumps greatest accomplishments was destroying the credibility of the oligarch corporate media.
On the subject of oligarchy, maybe this is the first step in the lefty network cabal just picking one of their number to face off against Gutfeld?
Doesn’t have to be a conscious collaboration in restraint of trade - just market decisions in a very small set of sellers.
RR
JSM
Well, bye!
Johnny Carson didn't have this problem. CBS, NBC and ABC should study Carson.
Fuck off Fauxahontas!
Poor non-funny leftist Soviet liars...
Adam Schitt(D) needs a massive dump of comeuppance for his lies.
" America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons."
I'm finding every bit of this 'delicious', especially the conflation of Adam Schiff, squeaking, and Fauxcahontas, squealing.
'America deserves to know !' This is level-10 satire, on the Simpsons scale.
Is Colbert going to claim he has PTSD like his colleague , Scott McFarlane is?? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/cbs-news-reporter-scott-macfarlane-says-he-got-ptsd-from-trump-assassination-attempt-because-of-crowd-anger-at-media/ar-AA1IO3Pv?ocid=BingNewsSerp
Say goodbye to the DNC’s co*k holster.
@wendybar
I think it's about time Scott McFarlane and his ilk faced some righteous anger. They may get a clue about how hated they truly are by half of the country.
The reality is that Colbert's show had been unwatchable for years, clearing a path for Greg Gutfeld to take over the late night lead. Greg Gutfeld?
I mean, Ladies and Gentlemen, we do have evidence.
See for yourself...if you can.
You're perfectly free to say whatever you want. They are perfectly free to fire you for it.
"America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons."
Democrats are big on censoring their opponents, so yeah- that's what they would do. Doesn't mean everybody would.
Elizabeth Warren understands very little about the relationship between employers and employees, does she not?
That's show biz. I read somewhere that the Big 3 TV networks dropped all their Westerns in the early 1970's bc they didn't attract the demographic they were looking for, even though the show's ratings were still very decent. So the execs made a business decision. Go figure? I wouldn't cry too hard for ol' Steve though. He's not some coal miner or auto-worker who is going to be hurtin' financially. TV viewers will see him again, sadly. But that too is show-biz, right?
"America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons."
Yes. It was.
Same reason CBS edited the Kamala interview. It was for political reasons.
Same reason Dan Rather forged Texas Air National Guard memos to try to derail the election of George W. Bush. It was for political reasons.
Hey asshole: Now that you know Colbert was cancelled for political reasons, what do you want to do about it?
Spit it out. You want a war? What?
Unfunny douche who brings out the likes of Dr. Francis Collins, canceled?
Colbert was genuinely funny as a comedian, as he got deeply into character and did not imitate but "became" someone else. He was terrible as a late night host, and his success came only from TDS. With TDS in the rearview mirror, Colbert has nothing to offer.
He simply sucks as a light night host. He does not have the natural ability to be a host, and is just a quirky character actor. Good riddance.
Guess what Colbert's Viewship in the 18-49 demo? 219 thousand. There are 127 million Americans between 18-49. That means 1 out of 600 Americans under age 50 view Colbert.
Total viewership is 2.4 million. Total Americans 124 million. That means 98 percent of Americans over 50 do NOT - repeat NOT - watch Colbert.
Decent ratings? Not if Advertisers want to sell to people under 50.
Pocahontas weeps
Colbert isn't funny. That was bound to become a problem sooner or later in the comedy business.
Biggest loser? Well, actually no one.
Scoldy rez schoolmarm Liz needs to get herself a beer and calm down.
My tag for Colbert is the Colbert Report and I thought he was really good when he did that old show, but I refrained from making a new tag just because he started to do a new show and thatgot kind of bad over the years, but I guess it’s all going to be OK now.
America deserved to know that their president was a senile incompetent, but CBS was quiet about that. As was Warren...
Deep State Reformer said..."I read somewhere that the Big 3 TV networks dropped all their Westerns in the early 1970's bc they didn't attract the demographic they were looking for, even though the show's ratings were still very decent."
You're thinking of the rural purge.
Does it look more like "bribery" or more like "go f**k yourself and your criticisms, Colbert?"
Ad revenue for late-night network television, including "The Late Show," has significantly declined. In 2018, these shows generated $439 million, but by 2024, that figure dropped to $220 million, a 50% decrease.
Additionally, the production costs for a show like the Late Show are quite high (and don't drop just because ad revenue does) and Colbert makes $21 million per year. Financially, it no longer makes sense to keep Colbert or to replace him with some other high-paid host.
Finally, the show gets its ass routinely kicked by Gutfeld, which has the comedic timing/rhythm of hacky amateur Catskills comedians, has Adam Schiff as the sole guest for a show, and has Bernie Sanders as one of his most frequent guests (23 times, I believe).
It is good to see the senior Massachusetts senator (you know, the "greatest deliberative body on earth") jump immediately to the conclusion (without evidence, I might add) that the cancellation must be a bribe, and to immediately decide that she should tweet such a out without delay.
I was assured by prominent media figures that if Trump was elected he would put Colbert in prison.
His show gets cancelled? That's it? What a gyp.
Colbert's fan base and show is the antithesis of the old Yogi Berra phrase, "Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded".
In fact nobody watched the show--and so it got the old heave ho. Colbert is just Rachel Maddow in a suit and tie.
"Tweets Elizabeth Warren" made me laugh.
What would Pocahontas do to a staffer who gave a speech criticizing her? Fire her on the spot, and everyone knows this.
FAFO
Also, notice how Adam Schiff doesn't deny the latest claims against him.
"Schiff and his wife purchased a home in Potomac, Maryland, in 2003 for $870,000, according to the letter. They entered into a Fannie Mae-backed mortgage agreement for $610,000 at a rate of 5.625% over a term of 30 years, asserting the property would be their primary and principal residence.
The letter said they reaffirmed that the Maryland home was their primary residence in mortgage refinancing filings in 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2013, despite Schiff being an elected official representing the state of California at the same time."
#ColbertTagDodged
Colbert has a staff of 200 people. Sounds like DOGE job to me.
Skeptical Voter said...
"Colbert's fan base and show is the antithesis of the old Yogi Berra phrase, "Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded".
In fact nobody watched the show--and so it got the old heave ho. Colbert is just Rachel Maddow in a suit and tie."
More accurate is this, from Spinal Tap, when asked if the band's popularity is waning. "No...their appeal is becoming more selective."
"America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons."
Tweets Elizabeth Warren
Colbert is not a journalist, he's a comedian. He's supposed to be funny and bring in ratings. (But it is pretty weird how so many on the far left actually get their "news" from comedians.)
He just took a big, public dump on his employer and got fired for it. That's hardly surprising.
"I want to bite the hand that feeds me.
I want to bite that hand so badly.
I want to make them wish they'd never seen me." - Elvis Costello
That Colbert's show was put on the chopping block just a couple of weeks after the BBB bill and one day after the recissions bill was passed does make me wonder how much money was the U.S. government funnelling in one form or another to his show.
My octogenarian mother was this morning relaying to me a report on which network prime time shows were just renewed. Possibly this is the time of year when networks commit or swing the axe.
Stephen Colbert had the highest ratings of any late night show. Remind me why it made perfect financial sense to fire him.
It's a "financial decision" like paying the local mafia don protection money not to burn down your shop is a financial decision.
That's not funny. Ironic. Karmic?
Bich, how about you show us how profitable, if at all, his show was for CBS? What makes you think CBS wants to throw away profit this way?
Let ol' Steve get a hosting job at MSNBC, or PBS, or start a pod cast. And to the usual suspects at Althouse: Colbert hasn't been "silenced", he's been fired, which happens all the time, especially in show biz and he'll be fine. Olbermann, O'Reilly, Megan Kelly, Tucker, et alia were all fired at some point too and they are still out there unsilenced and all. Pundits that want to be ratings proof should do like Limbaugh did and build out their own set up.
Does this mean they are going to bring back Craig Ferguson? Because Craig Ferguson is funny as hell.
Say... how are things going for Chuck Todd? How about Jim Acosta? What about all the other Progressive 'journalists' that have recently been liberated from the shackles and drudgery of network journalism? They all started out convinced that a Brave New World of Exciting Opportunities was awaiting them. How about Taylor Lorenz, Jennifer Rubin? They're all free agents now, playing the field. What's the score, though?
"He's a rapist, he's a Nazi, he's Adolf Hitler, he's a Klansman, he's a terrorist, he's a pedophile, he's committed 88 felonies, he faked his own assassination attempt, and he's brought back the Reign of Terror."
Too much?
Okay. Colbertgate!
If only we had some FBI agent who's a fan of bad porn to tell us the truth in a parking garage.
I read Colbert’s show has been a $40,000,000 loser for CBS for several years running.
A left-wing political show canceled by politics? Oh, dear.
I just watched a minute of that clip, that is more than I've watched his show the entire time it's been on the air!
Stephen Colbert had the highest ratings of any late night show. Remind me why it made perfect financial sense to fire him.
No, he had the highest rating among legacy network late night shows. Gutfeld(!) has about 60% more audience than does Colbert, and at significantly less cost.
No one watched the show, it was losing $40 million a year.
So, Colbert has 1.9 million total viewers in the latest ratings.
But only 280,000 viewers in the key, 25-54 age demographic. Ouch. That means his audience is very young (possible) and very old (probable).
1.6 million people, who are not buying much.
I don't know who his advertisers are, but 280,000 people in your key demographic? I would pay very little for that.
CBS Reportedly Lost $40 Million on Colbert’s Late Show This Year
Life ain't fair. Especially showbiz. Jeffery "dick flash" Toobin stays on TV as dopey Brian Stelter who gets fired and then brought back. Overpaid hacks can often right along on the gravy train for decades while good reporters, like Kathetine Herridge, get sacked. Go figure? It's a business.
mortgage refinancing filings in 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2013,
Didn't Biden have frequent refinancing, too? What kind of scam were they running?
I can't believe Congress didn't set up a legal way for them to claim primary residency for mortgages in DC while maintaining legal residency in their states and districts. Pretty sure active duty military can do this.
He can start a podcast and be the Dem's Joe Rogan.
FAFO
Remember when Letterman was being blackmailed about the multiple affairs he was having? Today, he'd be fired and cancelled.
It took 200 people to put that show on every night........let that sink in.
"Stephen Colbert had the highest ratings of any late night show. Remind me why it made perfect financial sense to fire him."
Jeez Kak, you make it so easy.
There's an old joke (I originally heard it in an Econ class used on General Motors) that went, we lose money on every sale. But we make up for it in volume.
GM was, at the time I first heard the joke, number one in car sales by a bunch.
Now if you don't get the point of that in relationship to Colbert, I can make it plainer. The Colbert show was losing $40 million per year. Late night talk shows have no chance of making any of that in re-runs.
Now for the crayon and puppets version: If your sales don't cover your costs you will go out of business.
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