acesfull86
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Also a good reminder to those bemoaning the Colbert cancellation that he could’ve tried, I dunno, being funny?
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Tapate50
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Or as the View called it "trampling on the first amendment"
zitothebrave
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Late Night Television has been declining for ages. But COlbert's had the highest ratings. But young people aren't watching late night television anymore.
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Highest ratings does not mean profitable business
zitothebrave
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Never said it did. Just pointing out the amusement because by that standard no late night TV is likely making money or CBS's sales department really sucks and NBC and ABC can get better deals than they can.
To be somewhat fair here, Colbert’s brand of late-night talk show was doing better than the competition, so it’s not like he just personally performed poorly. But the outrage over it was largely nonsensical posturing. Yes, if it were to be discovered that someone within Trump’s orbit actually compelled Paramount to axe Colbert in order to secure their merger, that’s a pretty big issue. And I don’t even necessarily doubt that Paramount thought it would be beneficial to that end. But short of a pressure campaign from the White House, this is just a business making a financial decision that’s no different than something like Disney firing Gina Carano.
The silver lining is even if Colbert is performatively clutching his pearls over it, he’s a much better comedian when he has some edge to him, and this does set up some potentially very funny television.
Credit where it’s due, there are some on the left that have been very dense about what South Park does. When Eric Cartman or Mr. Harrison is saying or doing something offensive, there is a portion of the audience on both sides that deeply misunderstand what the fuck those characters are there for. Cartman isn’t just a mouthpiece for the creators, he’s more often than not very intentionally a villain. Whether a person finds that brand of humor interesting or not is up to the viewer, but it should not be interpreted as the show blindly agreeing with what the character is doing or saying.