If he wants to continue he should just produce his show on his own and air it on YouTube. No one really watches broadcast tv anymore.
Jon Stewart should do the same.
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Google would probably cancel them there too if enough money exchanged hands between the right (err... wrong) people.
Speaking of 'financial decisions,' CBS isn't entirely wrong there, money has to have exchanged hands somewhere for this to happen.
happened right after 16million lawsuit paid to trump by cbs, and after he criticized him.
It's because they want to do the Skydance merger.
The "financial decision" is "We want money money money money, we'll do anything! Look! Look! We'll fuckin' fire one of our highest rating earners. You like that, Papa T? We did that to make you love us ;)"
kinda wierd people are denying its not because of trump in this thread, multiple subs are already reporting including other talk show host indicated it was a threat-based cancellation. some of the users got mad because nutrek was axed by paramount, eventhough the franchise in its current form is terrible other someone like kurtzman.
Yeah, but it is and it isn't, right?
Companies will do all sorts of crazy stuff for mergers to work out. History is riddled with epic failures like this as well. Microsoft buying Nokia comes to mind. Mergers have sunk costs and emotional, ego-driven people at their core.
So when something is sooooo close to happening and needs and just ONE more thing, approval from the FCC. In an environment where what truly does amount to a $16 million bribe isn't enough to get the last last last paper signed, Paramount will act irrational in the short term to get long term financial gains.
Personally, I think it's a bluff. They'll cancel a decently rated show in its 11th season, with nothing to replace it at all...next year? Well the merger should be fine sooner than that, allowing time for Paramount to undo the cancelation.
Firing Colbert and canceling his show, days after he criticized Paramounts Payola to Trump. Thats the "financial decision"
CBS is a bunch of trumps cucks.
STEWART/COLBERT 2028
That would be a dream come true
They’re going to speak Chinese on Mars because of this president.
Sure, in like four or five centuries maybe.
All that science fiction with colonies across the solar system by 20XX (or even the 2100s), its more fiction than science. Any sort of colony on Mars or the Moon or the skies of Venus or whatever is gonna have to recreate a biosphere from scratch. That alone would take decades upon decades of work -- and that's only really possible after we stabilize the biosphere we already live in.
First building an equilibrium with nature would give us the kind of expertise needed to actually make space colonies anything other than a pipe dream.
There's a lot about life today that would feel like science fiction long ago. But we wouldn't get here without progress. Administrations like the current American one for example are an example of regression not progression.
First building an equilibrium with nature would give us the kind of expertise needed to actually make space colonies anything other than a pipe dream.
Yeah, we're definitely backtracking on that one.
Sure, modern tech allows for a lot of things that wouldn't otherwise be possible. But we've also hit a plateau when it comes to major developments in physics. Building a truly long term habitat (like, can last many multiple generations) is just flat out gonna take several lifetimes before any actual results come to bare. Maaaybe you can shave logistical stress off the margins with a space elevator, but we don't actually know how to build on of those.
Short of some jarring, borderline miraculous breakthrough, we're not gonna see it in our lifetime. Hell, safe bet is our grandchildren won't either.
Highest rating show. Financial decision.
Nah. All who oppose Trump will be silenced.
Kimmel next
Late show was also just nominated for an Emmy.
Kimmel and John Stewart are in fact being targeted next.
I predicted that this would happen if the country started an irreversible slide into fascist warlord dictatorship, I just thought it would be much further down the road.
Watch, in about a year all of these comedians and liberal pundits are going to be replaced by right-wing grifters and podcasters capturing the stupid, populist attention spans of people who just want to stare at flashing lights and listen to people screaming about how evil trans children are interrupted by ads for essential oils and testosterone supplements. This isn't an exaggeration, this is what we can expect.
It will just be filled copaganda shows, and sprinkle in some military props, and mostly reality shows, which caters to the lowest common denominator, which happens to be conservatives. The news in these networks will just turn into another fox clone, if it isn't already
Kimmel has already said this is his last season, voluntarily.
Daily Show is next. Maybe Seth Meyers.
Kimmel has already said this is his last season, voluntarily.
Remember that when Conan was forced out, he had specific gag orders about what he could say or not, so take the "voluntary" part with a few grains of salt until that potential gag order expires, if it ever does.
Really what's happening is fascist censorship of opposition voices and satire is a powerful tool in speaking truth to power, making comedians highly threatening to fascists. Corporations like Skydance don't care about civilization or a better world, they need line to go up, and the fastest, most efficient way to get that line up is to buy some fascists to run the country you're located in.
I feel like he just replaced Letterman a year or two ago and now the show is already ending. Where the hell did all the time go? How am I nearly 40 already?
If it makes you feel better, this has nothing to do with normal Hollywood celebrity shuffling and contractual disputes, this is entirely targeted political censorship. Colbert is/was the highest rated talk show on network television and was just nominated for an emmy.
i wonder if he will try to sue them for this. skydance ceo is a trumper , so theres already a conflict of interest.
That doesn't really confort me much, given that I just realized that it has been TEN YEARS since Letterman left! I hate how quickly time started moving when COVID first hit. Time never slowed back down, it never slowed back down!
Ten years is nothing compared to the 40 years this country has regressed
Or has left
Every week has been a month, and every month has been a week.
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This was part of CBS' bribery payment, along with the $16 million to settle the 60 Minutes case, which would have been an easy win in court.
ABC and CBS have been compromised and have paid bribes. When will he go after NBC?
He called it. He said that this would happen in order for the deal to go through. They are trying to silence as many people as possible like any other fascist authoritarian countries.
kinda wierd how some people in this thread are denying its not that. it was pretty obvious right after thier 16mil settlement.
Source (skipped ahead to the right timestamp):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzvx3L3DQb8&t=248
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He criticized the surpreme leader? Probably lucky to still be alive...
the ceo of skydance is a trumper, its more than a coincidence.
Criticized Trump. Had to go or the merger was not going to be approved by Trump's ass-suckers.
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Get him and John Stewart back together. Throw in some John Oliver, too.
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I hope he uses this to go off the rails going into the election summer
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I can't wait for it to be replaced with nonstop infomercials for supplemental medicare.
The jokes on them. people don't watch it on TV. They just look for the YouTube video with Stephen Colbert in it. He can do that on his own
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Hey, gotta pay for their corrupt bribes somehow, right?
Stephen deserves better, so does the audience, and I hope he spends the rest of the time there making the pus-sucking execs regret their bullshit. While I doubt they can feel shame or embarrassment, I'm confident he can find ways to make the stain set; and then move on to do something independent so I can support him, cause through ups and downs he's been a real one for a large part of my life. Mostly I hope Paramount actually dies of shame and fails entirely as a company, and the merger their executives burning this all for is a monkey's paw that gives them all gigaherpes and ass cancer.
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