Late-night TV is truly dead - and you can only blame egotistical, politically obsessed Kimmel and Colbert themselves

https://nypost.com/2025/09/18/opinion/late-night-tv-is-truly-dead-at-the-
hands-of-kimmel-and-colbert/

Late-night TV is well and truly dead — at the hands of the hosts 
themselves.

Their weapon? Their own blind rage at half the country.

Hosts like Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert have deluded themselves into 
thinking that their mandate is to save democracy with one-sided political 
rants, rather than serving up breezy topical humor to send Americans to 
their nightly slumber.

On Wednesday night, Kimmel was put on ice by ABC. Local affiliates had 
said they wouldn’t air “Jimmy Kimmel! Live” because of his vile monologue 
suggesting Charlie Kirk’s killer was a MAGA true believer.

“We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately 
trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything 
other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political 
points from it,” Kimmel had said on-air Monday.

But it was his grotesque commentary that was hitting a new low.

His pronouncement was well out of step with what we already knew to be 
true about the shooter’s affiliation. Yet Kimmel chose to dive into a 
conspiracy theory to exploit a horrific political assassination.

If the ideologies were reversed, virtuous lefties would have been red in 
the face, screaming: “That’s disinformation!”

The reality is, this moment of reckoning was self-inflicted — and 
inevitable. For the last decade, Kimmel and Colbert have decided that 
viewers don’t need chuckles and interviews with the celeb du jour.

We don’t even need jokes.

Nope, we need to be lectured on politics and told that one side of the 
country, those who voted Republican, is inherently evil and destructive.

Even as their cultural power dwindled and viewers splintered into more 
diverse online offerings, Kimmel and Colbert continued with their 
collective lead foot on the gas pedal.

But network shows don’t rake in the advertising bucks they used to — and, 
sometimes, the headaches simply aren’t worth the money.

Kimmel, once an affable and irreverent bro comedian, morphed into a bitter 
and sanctimonious progressive more interested in scoring points against 
Trump than in serving weary viewers some much needed levity and 
distraction at the end of a long, hard day.

But it wasn’t ever just about our president. Kimmel’s monologues became a 
full and unfair demonization of Republicans and anyone else in the growing 
coalition that voted for Trump for a myriad of reasons.

He mocked people who didn’t want to take the Covid jab, saying they didn’t 
deserve medical attention. “A vaccinated person having a heart attack, 
yes, come right in, we’ll take care of you. Unvaccinated guy who gobbled 
horse goo? Rest in peace, wheezy.”

And those viewers were expected to tune in and clap?

Then there’s Colbert, who turned “The Late Show” into the Dem variety hour 
with scintillating guests like Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and former Labor 
Secretary Robert Reich. Losing upwards of a reported $40 million a year, 
no wonder it was canceled by CBS in July.

Never one to learn, Colbert is living out his remaining months in the 
“Late Night” chair lobbing f- bombs at the man in the White House.

Are we not entertained, America?

On Wednesday morning, I watched a 1979 clip of legendary “Tonight Show” 
host Johnny Carson talking to Mike Wallace for “60 Minutes.”

Carson, who hosted from 1962 to 1992, said the role of a late-night talk 
show host was not to “deal in serious issues,” calling that a “real 
danger.”

“Once you start that, you start to get that self-important feeling that 
what you say has great import,” he said. “And you know, strangely enough 
you could use that show as a forum. You could sway people. And I don’t 
think you should as an entertainer.”

How prescient Carson was.

One can argue about FCC involvement and the complexities of deals with 
local-affiliate owners like Nexstar.

But the truth is, Kimmel had committed the great sin of an entertainer.

He became too self-important. So enamored with his personal war against 
Trump that he lost sight of his audience and his purpose.

Kimmel followed his ego instead.


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November 5, 2024 - Congratulations President Donald Trump.  We look 
forward to America being great again.

We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that 
stupid people won't be offended.

Every day is an IQ test. Some pass, some, not so much.

Thank you for cleaning up the disasters of the 2008-2017, 2020-2024 Obama 
/ Biden / Harris fiascos, President Trump.

Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the 
The World According To Garp.  Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood 
queer liberal democrat donors.