Late-night show host Stephen Colbert will be off the airwaves come May 2026, and for many, it couldn’t come soon enough. His shrill, one-note electioneering comedy routines lost their relevance long ago, as they were about as funny and predictable as an MSNBC show, and he failed to understand that the country was moving in a different direction.
CBS was willing to lose money for years on the show, which tells you a lot about them, but they finally pulled the plug on Thursday, setting off howls of rage from the likes of Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA), “comedian” Jimmy Kimmel, and the Writers Guild. They shriek “conspiracy,” but late-night comedy simply isn’t resonating with America the way it used to, and even CBS is evidently sick of pouring money down the drain.
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And now we remind you of just how awful and divisive Colbert was (and will continue to be until next year) and why he is a hypocrite and a fraud.
This one galled me the most; I do not watch the show, but couldn’t miss this steaming pile of dung when it hit social media. COVID vaccines at the time of this skit were an issue that was tearing many families apart and causing many to lose their jobs. To Colbert, it was just cutesy fun to demand that you put something in your body that you don’t want to:
Finally, @CBS realizes what we've known all along: Stephen Colbert isn't profitable or funny. Here's his cringiest low: flanked by dancing homosexuals in the "Vax Scene," peddling the bioweapon wrecking humanity's health. Anything gayer, not funny, or more pathetic? pic.twitter.com/eTW0FmyCKP
— Kim "Katie" USA (@KimKatieUSA) July 18, 2025
Here he channels his inner Keith Olbermann and spews rage over Donald Trump’s supposed Dr. Evil crime career. Question: What does this have to do with comedy?
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— realstephaniegaddis🦋🌺 (@stephanegaddis) February 17, 2024
STEPHEN COLBERT and his unfunny performance
The Federalist wrote about the skit, “If he cared about America, he would be honest”:
Lying Legal ‘Expert’
Angry Colbert spouted off about the lawfare aimed at Trump during the 2024 presidential campaign, declaring, “In all seven of his cases, no one — no one! — doubts that he did these things!” In fact, most thinking people did doubt the claims that brought in waves of lawfare and recognized that Trump was being unfairly attacked in the courts to take him out of the race for president. Colbert was on the take-down team. If he cared about America, he would have been honest, using his voice to express concern over the misuse of the justice system.
Here, he openly assists Biden’s corrupt DOJ to take down a sitting president with false information:
In 2017, Colbert used his monologue, where late-night hosts typically do stand-up comedy, to advance the Russia collusion hoax. He spoon-fed viewers propaganda, reading directly from The New York Times, while his fans waited for him to make with some jokes.
Tonight: Stephen's back in action after celebrating America's birthday, but guess what? Everyone's still taking about #Russia... #LSSC pic.twitter.com/eT2coGvaCh
— The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) July 11, 2017
There are many more such moments—including his fawning softball interviews with Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Adam Schiff and every other leftist politician you can think of. Many on that side of the aisle are claiming that CBS’ decision to nuke the show is really a bribe to Trump to get him to approve CBS' parent company, Paramount Global’s, proposed $28 billion merger with Skydance.
My question would be, however, why did CBS allow itself to lose millions of dollars every year to air a leftist propaganda show? Should they report their production costs as a “donation in kind” to the DNC?
Goodbye, Mr. Colbert. I hope to be writing something similar about the equally unfunny Jimmy Kimmel in the future.
So many Hollywood "stars" seem to have gone off the deep end and devoted themselves to far-left causes that regular Americans have no interest in.
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