Earlier this year The Late Show hosted by a not-very-
funny funnyman Stephen Colbert had its finale. The
show's demise made clear that the banal and vapid
celebrity chit-chat and left-chic political preaching
by both Colbert and his guests are neither desired nor
appreciated by the national television viewing audience.
Despite what the left-wingers, especially the Hollywood
lefties claim Colbert and his show did not fall to censorship
but to ever-falling ratings.
Stephen Colbert came to prominence as an actor playing
a parody of populism a' la Bill O'Reilly. When he got hired
for his hosting gig at CBS he placed himself in service to
the progressive causes du jour and ceased to be a parody of
conservatism and conservatives and became an irritating
court jester for the Liberal Establishment.
Now, people certainly have their politics and political
differences, but at the end of a busy weekday they just
want to watch something purely entertaining which would
take them out of the realm of the hurly-burly of political
news as well as news about other blood pressure-raising
events; the last thing they want or need is having some
moronic Hollywood types expound on political topics on
which they know not from hunger but starvation.
This truth has evaded Stephen Colbert, and that's why his
show went down the Nielsen ratings drain. And why should
CBS, or any other network continue to carry a failing,
flailing show, losing money along with viewers? That's why
Colbert and The Late Show was given the hook.
Furthermore, there are some other late evening talk shows
and their hosts who are in similar straits. They would be wise to
take a lesson from Colbert's painful experience and adjust the
content of their shows accordingly. Will they do so is entirely
another matter.
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