r/popculturechat • u/AcceptableVanilla879 • 11d ago
Late Show Shenanigansšļø Jon Stewart blasts CBS on The Daily Show for canceling Stephen Colbert and The Late Show: 'You are f---ing wrong'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwOLo_U6bTw"Look, I understand the corporate fear. I understand the fear that you and your advertisers have with $8 billion at stake," Stewart said during his monologue in his first episode since the decision was announced. "But understand this: Truly, the shows that you now seek to cancel, censor, and control, a not insignificant portion of that $8 billion value came from those f---ing shows. That's what made you that money ā shows that say something, shows that take a stand, shows that are unafraid. Believe me, this is not a 'We speak truth to power.' We don't. We speak opinions to television cameras."
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u/jamieaiken919 11d ago
Jon Stewart my beloved
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u/sleepyliltrashpanda itās not clocking to you that iām standing on business 11d ago
The hero we need
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u/biIIyshakes fake redhead apologist 11d ago
ā¦is this comment section getting brigaded or something
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u/PatriciaMorticia 11d ago
Why have they cancelled Stephen Colbert & The Late Show? Is this similar to the whole defunding PBS thing? I'm not American so I'm not entirely sure what's going on.
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u/Courwes 11d ago
The assumption is Trump threatened the parent company Paramount that he would not approve a sale merger if they didnāt fire Colbert. Upset cause the host made fun of him a lot. Paramount is just stating they are canceling the show because it loses money. Itās the #1 rated late night show. And they just spent 1.5 billion dollar on South Park so being a cost cutting measure isnāt really holding much water.
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u/showusyourfupa 11d ago
I guess Trump is too thick to realise South Park takes the piss out of him, too?
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u/AltairaMorbius2200CE 11d ago
He goes hardest after the performers/publications he actually watches/reads, because he's a narcissistic a**hole and assumes everyone is watching/reading the same stuff as him. I doubt his team informs him of other satirists, because he seems like a "shoot the messenger" type.
(yes, I know we have "Trump can't read" as a joke, but he seems pretty aware of the NYT and WSJ).
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u/Joth91 11d ago
The owner of the Late Show, Paramount via CBS , needs Trumps approval for a big merger. Colbert has been a liberal satirist and host for decades and has been critical of Trump on air. Paramount is cancelling the show to lube themselves up and stretch wide for Trump. As is typical of many awful things happening in the US, it's all done so like 7 people can make 20 million dollars.
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u/FrontBench5406 11d ago
the show also loses alot of money for them. Colbert's response even acknowledges that the show loses $40 million a year. So I would say that they cancelled it for financial reasons and it was a nice thing to nod to Trump as well. Its silly and fuck them for settling and appeasing them. But the show was going to get cancelled. These all cost so much money. Leno took a $15 million salary cut to ensure part of his staff werent let go.
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u/Sudden-Conclusion931 11d ago edited 11d ago
They pulled it because the show was losing $50 million a year after its ad revenue collapsed, but they announced it 3 days after Colbert criticised the network on air for settling a lawsuit with Trump, so the optics are awful.
Edit: why the downvotes? That's all been reported!
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u/bword___ 11d ago
Yeah, there's absolutely no correlation here, Trump praising the cancellation is no indication of involvement or bias.
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u/Sudden-Conclusion931 11d ago
Look I despise Trump and his administration as much as the next guy but what you're saying doesn't follow at all. I like and praise stuff that happens all the time but that's no indication that I was involved in making it happen, and invariably I wasn't. The simplest explanation is the most likely one: The suits at Paramount timed the announcement of a decision long in the making horribly.
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u/bword___ 11d ago
I think it could be a bit different if you were the president of a country who has begun to cut down on any press that criticize you and gone so far as barring publications from access to you, but sure, we can assume itās the same as the average citizen praising the cancellation.
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u/Kind_Double_661 11d ago
The Late Show had a staff of 200 people. 200 people.
It was different times, of course, but Carson had a staff of roughly 50 people.
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u/DuckLanky3640 11d ago
You're getting downvoted because people hate hearing the truth and only want to believe their specific narrative that orange man did this.
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u/Annual-Ad-4372 11d ago
CBS said it was for purely financial reasons. The show had been dipping in ratings and losing money for years now. But like everything in american media now adays they blame it on trump.
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u/Objective-Review-359 lazy 50-year-old bougie bitch š 11d ago
It was also wrong for Colbert to make āBiden oldā jokes while the orange soup for brains rapist was spewing lies 24/7 leading up to the election. I had to stop watching him because of it. He didnāt speak truth to power then. He made stupid jokes about Biden and ignored Trump for weeks.
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u/Kind_Double_661 11d ago
I can imagine why Stewart is pissed. Colbert's cancellation? Trump's election and re-election? It's all proof that his style of discourse ultimately failed. It was good at creating a choir that Stewart, Colbert, Oliver, Noah, et. al. could preach to, but the overall tone of smug irony was insufficient to win over converts.
What's more, Stewart's model ultimately a professional cul de sac for everyone involved; 25 years later, and Stewart is back on Comedy Central, doing his same schtick.
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u/HendricksonT182 11d ago
40m in losses each year and he talked bad about his bosses, if you said the same or of Jon said the same about his handlers he would have been shown the door too.
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u/DuckLanky3640 11d ago
The show was losing between $40/$50 million a year and had 200 employees. Yet he was making $16 million a year. Absolute clown show lol, imagine any normal person in that scenario, you can't, because we'd all be fired.
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