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

On 7/23/2025 10:36 PM, super70s 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.
> 
> Of course that's cable and not network so I guess they can do pretty 
> much anything they want without fear of the FCC.

Formally or informally, iirc, it has to do with the hour.  It'd be 
interesting to eavesdrop on whatever preceded the Monday relaxation.