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Roger Beal's avatar

Time for the late night airwaves to become unburdened by what has been.

Brian M's avatar
1dEdited

If you want a good laugh late at night, before passing out, Greg Gutfeld is as good as any. He has a teenager's irreverent sense of humor with plenty of scatological stuff mixed in. He is like the old (not the current) Dave Letterman

Les's avatar

Agree! I never miss Gutfeld.

Will Davis's avatar

Yes. I have to record it though since it's past this old coot's bedtime.

Molly Gentry's avatar

Thee and I, Will! LOL!

Bonnie Beresford's avatar

I get what you mean about Gutfeld but personally I do not get why his show is so popular. Greg himself is smart and funny, I like him on The Five and I bought his first book.

But the only thing on "Gutfeld" worth watching is Tyrus. Greg isn't that funny, his political jokes are often just mean-spirited, each of his guests has to reel off a pre-written joke before they say anything worth listening to, and he seems to be showcasing several sad loser comedians who can't get a gig anywhere else. I find him annoying.

I do miss Johnny Carson.

Molly Gentry's avatar

Me, too, Bonnie. There will NEVER be another Johnny Carson or Ed McMahon!

MFE's avatar

We watch Johnny Carson most nights. Thank goodness for reruns.

Jgb's avatar

I agree. With all the money that show makes, you’d think they could spend it on better writing/comedians. And yes, annoying.

I enjoyed Jimmy Fallon before he was made to add Trump is bad material to his monologues. He’s goofy, but isn’t mean spirited and seems to basically just want to have fun. Democrats do NOT want to have fun anymore. Or they’ve forgotten how.

R H's avatar

I can honestly say I have never seen an episode of Late Night with Colbert.

JohnP's avatar

Nor I. And I just had to look up John Oliver, never heard of him.

BeMac's avatar

John Oliver is another snide sanctimonious hack...and he's not funny either

Tim's avatar

Oliver mistakenly believes because he speaks very quickly in a poncey British accent, whatever he says is incisively hilarious.

Debby's avatar

Hopefully you didn’t lose your lunch if you watched any clips of that wind bag, Oliver. LOL

Debby's avatar

Me neither!!

sooz's avatar

".......Stephen Colbert, you snide, smug, sanctimonious, intolerable partisan hack."

Or, from Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (Count Dooku): "Twice the pride, double the fall.” Insufferable arrogance. And the inability to see what the mirror reflects.

NNTX's avatar

And worse, Colbert is boring.

Will Davis's avatar

Well said. Overweening self-importance and hate and disdain for us rubes out here who don't know what's good for us and have the audacity to vote the "wrong way". If they really got an authoritarian socialist/communist country that they seem to want, they would have to read from a government approved script or face consequences. I would venture to guess their soft, undeveloped brains were told what to think in college. I can remember having s*** for brains in those days and wised up, but most of these media hacks never grew up.

Debby's avatar

Great comment!!

David's avatar

Nice! 👍🏼

ALLYSONRT's avatar

Hahahah..good one!

Keith Jajko's avatar

Agreed. Reruns of classic old TV shows would attract more viewers.

Debby's avatar

😂😂😂😂 that’s GREAT!! I feel lighter already.

Mike's avatar

"Good riddance, Stephen Colbert, you snide, smug, sanctimonious, intolerable partisan hack. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out." - Beautiful.

ChrisC's avatar

I never pass up a chance to remind people that Springsteen is a douche and his music sucks.

Beth Nicolaides's avatar

And he now looks like an ancient lesbian.

CeeMcG's avatar

He looks like Megan Rapinoe. Also an ancient lesbian.

Beeswax's avatar

What, you don't like his facelift? So waxy and shiny. HOT! He could be nonbinary for all we know.

Beth Nicolaides's avatar

I thought he looked like a stunned sheep back in the 80s. He honeymooned in my hick town when he married J. Phillips.

Reelin’ In The Fears's avatar

Springsteen was good at one thing, ripping off Bob Seger.

Mid class partisan's avatar

And a number of his earlier songs are definitely low grade cringy.

Debby's avatar

Nor should you!! LOL

Tim Goodsell's avatar

Don’t hold back, Sasha. Tell us what you really think! She said it much better than I could have.

fuzzi's avatar

I'm sharing that, it's perfect.

Epaminondas's avatar

Don't you love someone who supposedly hates fascism cheering on the government going after people peacefully protesting government mandates? Who's the fascist now?

I can't understand how anyone finds such an arrogant hypocrite entertaining.

Owain Glyndŵr's avatar

Except, let that door soundly thwack that pompous ass.

Alan's avatar

Ouch! That’ll leave a mark.

Debby's avatar

I loved that also. It’s well worth repeating.

Brian DeLeon's avatar

No one watches these late night shows anymore. What was once entertainment has long ago become demagogic hackery: mirthless, insipid, soulless garbage. The equally insufferable Kimmel should be the next domino to fall. Kimmel should not be forced out by anything other than the weight of his own unfunny, talentless persona. A test pattern would be more interesting than Colbert and Kimmel. Good riddance indeed.

Pacificus's avatar

Yes. Kimmel has to be one of the greatest examples in TV history of a truly mediocre talent ass-kissing his way up the ladder of success. Like Colbert, his greatest sin is, he's not funny.

Brian M's avatar

Why doesn't anyone on the Left wonder why there are no comedy shows or networks (other than Fox and Gutfeld) raking the Democrats over the coals the way they do conservatives? The media is 85/15 Left, even after CBS/Paramount was acquired by the Ellisons. Does it even occur to them that THEY are the Obama-led tyrants, the fascists, by every meaning of those terms? Or maybe they believe they have an inherent right (not God-given because many of them are atheists) to snuff out conservatives, a lower life form than them. The only way this ever changes is for the Left to lose, and lose badly, not just politically, but culturally. They need to know what it is like to be rolled over by tyranny.

ALLYSONRT's avatar

The morons who watch these shows stand on the corner of Ventura Blvd snd Laurel Csnyon every Saturday holding "Fuck Trump mo Kings" signs. They woll vote for Karen Bassura. Their minds are controlled by propaganda. Its quite bizarre.

Upinthehills's avatar

They love their king Obama and king Newsom.

Debby's avatar

Test pattern is good, or that crackling fireplace!!

ScottyG's avatar

He should’ve been cancelled when he danced with syringes. 💉💉💉

ALLYSONRT's avatar

That was the most bizarre evil and sick show ever. I agree with you.

Kennedy's avatar

That was truly the breaking point for me. I admit I was a fan of the show until Covid when I got a hard dose of truth and reality.

JudyC's avatar

(Can I say how great this community is? These comments are hilarious!)

Kurt's avatar

Triple ageed.

We should have a Sasha convention--Sashacon! We’ll all get together, Sasha will present on a jumbotron screen and it’ll be the best party ever. We’ll have such fun.

Debby's avatar
16hEdited

YES…LETS!!! But it sounds so much Chaka Kahn. Probably wrong spelling. Never a fan. Do it anyway.

Debby's avatar

YES!!! We are pretty wonderful.

Dutchmn007's avatar

Sad to say but the entertainment industry has largely morphed into that hitherto only seen in totalitarian countries like Nazi Germany, Soviet Union, Cuba, & North Korea; the political message is paramount. The intention isn’t to entertain or really have a story, it’s all about furthering a political message for universal acceptance. And that message is MORE important than the storyline; in fact storyline is second or even third down on the list. It’s all about have the “proper” message with “diverse” (read “no white actors need apply”) casting.

That’s not entertainment that’s propaganda.

And Colbert has always been an unfunny, un-masculine douche.

Mark Sides's avatar

Outstanding observations Ms. Stone.... I am "borrowing" your assessments and promoting them wherever possible.

The cancellation of this egotistical narcissist and his cancerous rhetoric is a benefit to the whole damn country.

Tricia's avatar

I don’t think he got “cancelled”. It was the entire show since they are not going to hire a replacement. People watch TV differently now. No one parks their ass on the couch at precisely 11:30 PM to watch drug commercials and snippets of content.

Gitch's avatar

He was never funny, so he didn't do his job. Bad business by CBS if they lost that much $$ . Good riddance!

Jackson74's avatar

If he were funny, he is available to any network or streaming service. This is the way capitalism works. À la Lee Iacocca, if folks can find a better thing to watch, they will change the channel.

Simbro Fatarzo's avatar

He has an incredibly large body of work spanning 30 years and he makes big cash wherever he goes

You're a going-nowhere basically already dead man in your 60s. You don't mean anything to anyone. You're a desperate envious loser who keeps insisting that everyone else is happy because of something they didn't work for

Nah man. You're going to get everything you think you want and still die of a massive rage stroke

Eric F. ONeill's avatar

Amen. I haven’t watched Colbert in many years, and never regularly. As you pointed out, he was NEVER really funny, the cardinal, unforgivable sin of comedy. Adios, Colbert. Now you can join Olbermann in the pantheon of lefty hasbeens.

BeMac's avatar

I forgot about Olbermann...another odious "personality"

Glad we don't see too much of him either

Mark Douglas's avatar

I could not agree more. I have never found Colbert to be the least bit funny or interesting. He’s the definition of a complete jerk.

Danimal28's avatar

Love your stuff, Sasha, but... Colbert who? Ferguson was the last funny dude at night. His buddy Geoff was hilarious, especially when beautiful chiquita's were on.

ALLYSONRT's avatar

I am old c enough to remember Steve Allan and Joey Bishop..they were funny!

Kathy Christian's avatar

I liked Joey Bishop. Steve Allen, too. All the old greats.

Reelin’ In The Fears's avatar

Jack Parr was the original. Funny, clever and subtle.

Brian M's avatar

Jimmy Fallon was funny for a while, until he caught a bad case of TDS sometime after tousling Trump's hair on his show.

Bernadette's avatar

Amen! What a complete and utter waste of screen time he has been to the general public. I used to be a rather religious watcher of all things late night, and I was actually excited when he got the job. But he was unwatchable from the beginning and it’s hard to believe he lasted even this long!

Patrick Downey's avatar

He’s all that and a bag of shite.

Brian M's avatar

Self-indulgent, narcissistic a$$holes like Colbert can never admit they just are not funny and are a money loser for their network. His pathetic exit, which would only be outdone by Jimmy Kimmel if he ever gets the axe from spineless Disney, really shows the sick, depressed person he really is

Rick's avatar

I, for one, would actually like the door to whack him as he exits. A more deserving farewell pat couldn’t be scripted.

Kurt's avatar

Sasha, it’s like you read my mind and gave voice to every objection I have ever had to that insufferable propagandist.