Re: "Go Fuck Yourself": Colbert Unleashes Anti-Trump Tirade Amid Report His Show Loses $40M Annually

In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] wrote:
>On 2025-07-23 23:18:53 +0000, anim8rfsk said:
>> Ubiquitous <[email protected]> wrote:

>>> Late-night host Stephen Colbert went on a lengthy tirade against 
>>> President Donald Trump during Monday night’s episode of “The Late 
>>> Show,” addressing a report that his program loses $40 million per 
>>> season.
>>> 
>>> Several comedians and fellow hosts showed up for the latest episode to
>>> support Colbert and bash Trump.
>>> 
>>> At one point, Colbert responded to Trump’s celebratory social media post
>>> about the show being canceled, in which the president taunted Colbert,
>>> saying, “His talent was even less than his ratings.”
>>> 
>>> “How dare you, sir,” Colbert said. “Would an untalented man be able to
>>> compose the following satirical witticism? Go f*** yourself!”
>>> 
>>> “Cancel culture has gone too far,” Colbert said during his monologue. 
>>> “Last week, we learned that ‘The Late Show’ will be ending in May. I 
>>> want to thank everybody who reached out to me over the weekend, including 
>>> one text from an unknown number, offering a high-paying IT work-from-home 
>>> job for only two to three hours a day. Yes, I am very interested and I 
>>> will be sending you my routing number in May. Daddy needs a job.”
>>> 
>>> The host mentioned how it’s now sunk in that CBS is “killing” his show.
>>> 
>>> “But they made one mistake. They left me alive. Now, for the next 10 
>>> months, the gloves are off. I can finally speak unvarnished truth to 
>>> power and say what I really think about Donald Trump. I don’t care for 
>>> him. Doesn’t have the skillset to be president,” Colbert continued.
>>> 
>> 
>> I hope CBS if not the FCC fines him a six figure penalty every time he
>> pulls this crap.
>
>If you think that was gratuitous you should've seen Jon Stewart's 
>Monday night "Daily Show," I went back and watched it. He brought out 
>some kind of Harlem choir out at the end of his Epstein bit (which 
>contained plenty of vulgarity) and they kept singing "GFY" over and 
>over ad nauseum. Seemed like an authentic church choir and it kind of 
>surprised me they'd consent to that but whatever.

I'm going to assume they were actors, not real Gospell singers, but at this 
point, Stewart has become a charactiture of himself.