Oh, yes, we should have seen this coming. Stephen Colbert’s late night show was cancelled. Now, sure, it could have been the supposed money issue, but the timing is rather suspicious. He takes a shot at tRump, and the show was cancelled shortly after. CBS also settled a lawsuit with Trumpolini shortly before this, to the tune of $16 million for a “deceptively” edited piece on Kamala Harris last year. What a bunch of hooey.
CBS has an upcoming merger that they want to go through, and Agent Orange could tank it. So they decide to settle instead of fighting it. Again, I say, what a bunch of hooey. CBS could have won, but they rolled over and played dead. That’s … sad. Too many people are choosing not to fight tRump, and most of them are now worse off than they were before this nonsense. So, Stephen’s show was cancelled. From Variety:
Stephen Colbert had a succinct message to President Trump, one that involved an anatomical impossibility. In his monologue opening Monday’s “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” Colbert referred to Trump’s celebrating CBS‘s sudden decision to axe the show. The U.S. president, in a post on Truth Social last Friday, wrote, “I absolutely love that Colbert got fired. His talent was even less than his ratings.”
Feh. tRump got his feelings hurt, so the show gets cancelled. Of course, this means the gloves are off. What could Trump do to him? The answer is “not a damn thing.” The remaining shows are going to be something. A comedian can choose his subjects. So, here we are.
With mock outrage, Colbert said, “How dare you, sir? Would an untalented man be able to compose the following satirical witticism?” Colbert then appeared in an on-screen frame that said “Eloquence Cam” and, staring directly into the camera, affected a clipped New York accent: “Go fuck yourself.” (The f-bomb was bleeped out.) The line drew a massive roar of approval from the audience in the Ed Sullivan Theater, followed by cheers of “Stephen! Stephen! Stephen!”
Ha. Yes, laid it right out. Well said, sir! As it turns out, the contracts of producers and writers typically sign one-year contracts in August, so CBS had to announce the cancellation sooner rather than later. It still doesn’t explain the fact that they rolled over and paid a suit that they could have won. But CBS settled. That’s just pitiful. It certainly lowers their standards.
In the monologue, Colbert noted that Trump also said in his online post, “I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next” to be fired. To which Colbert said, “Nope, no, no. Absolutely not. Kimmel, I am the martyr. There’s only room for one on this cross. And the view is fantastic from up here. I can see your house!”
“Folks, I’m gonna go ahead and say it: Cancel culture has gone to far,” Colbert quipped at the start of the show. “Over the weekend, it sunk in that they’re killing off our show. But they made one mistake: They left me alive,” he said. “And now,” Colbert said, “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, starting right now” — and he then offered this comically milquetoast critique of Trump: “I don’t care for him. Doesn’t have the skillset to be president. Not a good fit, that’s all.”
WHAM. There ya go. Don’t ever get on the “bad” side of a comedian because you give them an open invitation to bust on you, so if you’re El Presidente Imbécil, you’re going to be “insulted” for the duration of the remaining shows. It won’t be every night. It will sneak up on him when he least expects it. I can see many frivolous lawsuits down the pike. Trumpolini is going to get his fee-fees hurt, and it will be glorious! Enjoy!
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Stephen is too funny not to parlay this into another career move. Trump has bigger things to worry about…his fat ankles…his rear end that requires two zip codes…a wife who hates him, and has to wear a retainer, so the grinding of her teeth won’t drown out his demented blathering… three entitled pissants that carry his DNA…a cokehead, a cretin, and an entitled pampered punk. If the cost of makeup, girdles, and Depends gets too steep, orangebob shitpants will need to stock up.
the writers of Murphy brown v Dan Quayle. these idiots just can’t learn from the past.