The Left’s Nervous Breakdown Over Colbert Is Kinda Hilarious

Another NSFW post, courtesy of the Democrats. It seems that dropping the F-bomb is “in” right now for leftists, so be warned. There are likely more NSFW warnings to come. 

The next step and all of this is Colbert daring his bosses to pull them off the air before next year.

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) July 22, 2025

Over the past few days, I have been enduring, and now am sorta enjoying, the liberal meltdown over CBS’s upcoming cancellation of Steven Colbert’s deeply unfunny Late Show. 

Note the audience’s response. Not laughter, which is involuntary.

Applause. Cheers.

He’s signaling to his tribe that he belongs, and they respond by celebrating their shared hatred of the out-group. Whatever else it is, it ain’t comedy. https://t.co/5xn1KA6g55

— jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) July 22, 2025

The cancellation could only have one reason, we are told: Donald Trump. As we know, every celebrity who has ever crossed Donald Trump was summarily fired soon afterwards, which is why they have all fallen into line. 

Jon Stewart reacts to CBS cancelling “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” and tells corporations and advertisers to “sack up” pic.twitter.com/v8MrNpg28w

— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) July 22, 2025

All, that is, except for every damn one of them, who won’t shut up about how much they hate Donald Trump. It has become so common–like dropping the F-bomb, I suppose–that it has become something of a mantra.

Hi, Steve, how are you doing? “I’m terrible, I hate that f-ing Donald Trump because he is a racistsexisthomophobiccisgender colonialist. How are you?”

Colbert’s $50 Million Flop pic.twitter.com/7mw9O7qcG2

— Gutfeld! (@Gutfeldfox) July 22, 2025

John Stewart–who manages to be funny about once every few weeks–seems to be worried about his own job and is giving the finger to everybody involved. 

People favorably contrast Colbert with Stewart, but they’re both overrated clowns reading words written by other people, desperate entertainers now past their prime. Even at its peak, The Daily Show was pure propaganda, a nightly smugness bacchanal
pic.twitter.com/N59qZnPiNN

— Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) July 22, 2025

You’d never know it given the quality of the content, but Colbert needs two hundred–yes, TWO HUNDRED–employees to put on a nightly talk show. That’s a modest number, given that reports indicate that Jimmy Kimmel needs three hundred to be even less funny than Colbert. 

The Stephen Colbert Show had a lot of pathetic moments. This one with Mark Cuban may take the cake.pic.twitter.com/C4i2mp2uzc

— MAZE (@mazemoore) July 21, 2025

I know it is hard to imagine that a show that features such luminaries as Steven Breyer and Adam Schiff might be losing money, but apparently Colbert somehow managed to do so–to the tune of about $50 million a year, which, when you add it up over a few years, turns out to be quite a lot of money. 

Stephen Colbert had a budget of 100 million a year and 200 people on staff for a show that lost 40 million a year.

We had 600k views on YouTube and 140k on Rumble livestreams yesterday with 5 people in studio with me, who mainly get paid in Chipotle.

(Extra guac on good days.) pic.twitter.com/Doz0mn7aNP

— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) July 22, 2025

Still, everybody is convinced that Colbert was fired because Donald Trump is a tyrant. Brian Stelter has spent days talking about it, and warning that we are sliding toward tyranny. 

A country where you can’t lampoon the president is not a free country. Of course, we’re not there, not even close, in the US, but there’s a bit of a chill in the air today pic.twitter.com/KaSAreJQZj

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) July 18, 2025

What got me past my disgust with all this whining about freedom being at stake because CBS is no longer making a $50 million a year donation to the Democratic Party by airing this drivel is the realization that all the people whining are celebrities who are just worried about their own growing irrelevance. 

2018. Senator Kamala Harris goes on Colbert and pretends like she had seen evidence of Trump colluding with Russia.

Such clowns.pic.twitter.com/P9kxjMa2Ql

— MAZE (@mazemoore) July 21, 2025

Almost everybody who cares about this and is whining is a celebrity themselves. Of course, they are worried. Stelter, for instance, has a job at CNN again, but he was fired not so long ago. The other late-night hosts are part of a dying breed–the audiences for these shows cannot sustain such high staff counts, and the only people left in their audience are aging MSNBC viewers who think it is hip to hate anybody who voted for Donald Trump. 

My man.
Colbert is barely drawing 2.0 ratings.
His share of the 18-49 demographic is 200k.
Mid-tier YouTubers triple that.

He didn’t get canceled for “political reasons”.
He got canceled because Late Night TV is deader than Elvis. pic.twitter.com/dlnLsP0bIY

— RazörFist (@RAZ0RFIST) July 18, 2025

Fox News’ Gutfeld! is outperforming all these shows, and why not? It’s more interesting and more funny. While it doesn’t have the slick production values–it’s just people sitting down shooting the bull–it engages the mind a lot more and, ironically, showcases more diversity than any of the other late-night shows. 

Guys.. pic.twitter.com/XfqbyyXtDC

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) July 21, 2025

Podcasters are beating them all, though, and on a shoestring. Late-night talk shows are dying off, both because there is a dearth of talent and because people have a lot of options other than watching unfunny people rant about how awful most Americans are. 

Jimmy Fallon, John Oliver, Jon Stewart, Seth Meyers and other stars take over ‘The Late Show’ audience to support Stephen Colbert after cancellation news https://t.co/vtbjWYmnF0 pic.twitter.com/w84PiOJViM

— New York Post (@nypost) July 22, 2025

Chances are good that most of the people who are appalled that Colbert’s show is getting cancelled don’t even watch it unless a friend of theirs is on it–or themselves. 

The people who care about Colbert are the same ones who compared Joe Biden to George Washington, and in one case–Jeff Daniels–thinks that Kamala Harris could have been a 21st-century Lincoln. 

and here i thought ‘Dumb and Dumber’ was just a film he acted in.https://t.co/d0DJAShqwl

— Stanley Scism (@skscism) July 22, 2025

They are scared little people. Big egos, little talent, and growing in irrelevance. 

Seen in that light, their whining doesn’t bother me anymore. I just wish they wouldn’t swear so much. 

Leftist outlets whine that CBS canceling Stephen Colbert’s failing show is censorship and a violation of the First Amendment. pic.twitter.com/qC5zDaJI8u

— Free Speech America (@FreeSpeechAmer) July 22, 2025

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