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For Late Night’s Trump Critics, the Escape Routes Are Vanishing

nomadcowatbk said:
How many podcasts are on Trump's radar? His targets are mainly on linear TV and how much control does the FCC over the podcast market
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www.independent.co.uk

Trump urges Erika Kirk to sue comedian who mocked MAGA women

‘Sue their a** off,’ Trump told Charlie Kirk’s widow during a White House Easter event
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https://twitter.com/x/status/2036953526811930846

www.newsweek.com

Donald Trump gives Erika Kirk advice after Druski skit

The president spoke to Erika Kirk while giving a speech at an Easter lunch at the White House.
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Apparently Trump decided to target a social media comedian named “Druski” over a skit parodying Erika Kirk the current leader of Turning Point USA. Well apparently Trump is offended by what he sees on Social Media when his allies are parodied. The difference between Druski and the late night hosts is that Druski gets targeted by Trump Directly. The late night hosts on the other hand have to deal with Brendan Carr threatening to going after their New York and Los Angeles affiliates licenses. But the effect is the same.
 
kwthom said:
Some might even consider that he's returning to his first love...and maybe stepping out on a bit of a limb to do so.

People expanding their horizons in front of our eyes. Good for him; wish him the best in his new endeavor.
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This is classic Stephen. He rarely does the same thing twice.

Jon Stewart praised Stephen for taking what was a big leap 11 years ago from a tight half-hour of satire (The Colbert Report) to a 90-minute late night talk/variety show.
 
umfan said:
Imagine you're a real screenwriter who has to subordinate your work to a hack.

Colbert has no business doing this.
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You just seem to have a grudge against Colbert for some reason.

As for what a "real screenwriter" is, I'd say that it is someone who manages to sell one or more scripts that get produced.

One of the most popular episodes of the original Star Trek series is an episode titled "The Trouble With the Tribbles". It came about because the scriptwriter, David Gerrold (who was in his early 20s at the time), had submitted an unsolicited script to the producers, even though he had no screenwriting credits at the time. His initial submission was rejected, but the producers thought he had potential and encouraged him to keep trying. The eventual result was an episode of the series that is widely considered to be one of the standouts.

Obviously, Colbert has quite a bit more experience than did David Gerrold -- but the point is that there isn't some sort of qualification that determines that only certain people can be scriptwriters. And I suspect that Colbert has the talent to contribute something worthwhile.
 
Pull-quote from the original article:

For anyone questioning Colbert’s credentials, Jackson himself addressed this in no uncertain terms.

“I have never met a bigger Tolkien geek in my life. His encyclopedic knowledge of Tolkien is spectacular, and points to a deprived childhood in some respects,” Jackson told Entertainment Weekly in 2012.

Colbert’s Tolkien bona fides extend well beyond superfandom. He, along with his wife and kids, made a cameo in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.

He also moderated a panel for The Hobbit at San Diego Comic-Con in 2014. And he wrote, directed and starred in Darrylgorn, an eight-minute short film set in JRR Tolkien’s Middle-earth, per Variety.

This isn’t a celebrity vanity project. Colbert has spent decades demonstrating fluency with the source material — and now, with Boyens and Jackson alongside him, he’s putting that knowledge on the page.
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latenighter.com

Stephen Colbert to Host 'Strike Force Five' Reunion on 'The Late Show' (Exclusive) - LateNighter

Stephen Colbert is set to welcome not one, but four other late-night hosts to 'The Late Show' in a reunion of the Strike Force Five.
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Here is one as Colbert gets ready to leave.

Though CBS has yet to confirm the booking, multiple sources tell LateNighter that Seth Meyers let slip during an audience Q&A Wednesday that he, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, and John Oliver are set to jointly appear with Colbert on his show Monday, May 11.

It will mark the first time all five hosts have appeared together on a single late-night stage.

The group famously first teamed up on Strike Force Five, a 12-episode podcast launched during the 2023 writers strike, which halted production across the industry—including The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Late Night with Seth Meyers, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, and Colbert’s Late Show.
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Damn, the only way that could be better is if Jon Stewart showed up too. (Not likely though, he tapes his Monday segment of The Daily Show at about the same time.)
 
Weiserguy said:
Damn, the only way that could be better is if Jon Stewart showed up too. (Not likely though, he tapes his Monday segment of The Daily Show at about the same time.)
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Colbert has shifted his taping time to accommodate Seth Meyers’ taping schedule in the past. They could probably work something out—-but my guess is Stewart, like Letterman, gets his own segment on a different night.
 
michael hagerty said:
Colbert has shifted his taping time to accommodate Seth Meyers’ taping schedule in the past. They could probably work something out—-but my guess is Stewart, like Letterman, gets his own segment on a different night.
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Probably true, especially since Jon is (or used to be) an E.P. on Colbert's version of The Late Show, and has been an E.P. since the early days of The Colbert Report. All those guys are friends, with Oliver coming out of TDS's stable too, so it wouldn't surprise me if it did happen.

BTW, it's been a beautiful thing to behold how Stephen's been giving the shiv to the suits at CBS and the parent mafia, smooth and hilarious.
 
Colbert has a large late-night audience, ( over 2.5 million according to link below), and his cancellation at CBS will not have as severe an impact on curtailing his voice as CBS might think, IMO. He may be able to make the move to podcasts and You Tube, much as Conan O'Brien did. If Colbert wants to continue creating comedy content, I think his audience will continue to follow him. Leaving linear tv is not the death knell anymore that the powers in charge believe it to be. I think he will find a way to return. JMO - D.



latenighter.com

Here Are Final Late Night Ratings for Q3 2025 - LateNighter

The late-night hierarchy held steady in the third quarter of 2025, with Stephen Colbert leading the 11:35 PM hour, and Seth Meyers continuing his dominance at 12:37 AM.
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Daryl Lynn L.A. said:
Colbert has a large late-night audience, ( over 2.5 million according to link below), and his cancellation at CBS will not have as severe an impact on curtailing his voice as CBS might think, IMO. He may be able to make the move to podcasts and You Tube, much as Conan O'Brien did. If Colbert wants to continue creating comedy content, I think his audience will continue to follow him. Leaving linear tv is not the death knell anymore that the powers in charge believe it to be. I think he will find a way to return. JMO - D.



latenighter.com

Here Are Final Late Night Ratings for Q3 2025 - LateNighter

The late-night hierarchy held steady in the third quarter of 2025, with Stephen Colbert leading the 11:35 PM hour, and Seth Meyers continuing his dominance at 12:37 AM.
latenighter.com latenighter.com
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They don't care. It's not silencing him per se, it's removing him from their airwaves, per the extortion of the administration. Wheregoes, if anywhere, becomes someone else's issue; they've done their part by casting him out of their little kingdom.
 
AbrahamJSimpson said:
They don't care. It's not silencing him per se, it's removing him from their airwaves, per the extortion of the administration. Wheregoes, if anywhere, becomes someone else's issue; they've done their part by casting him out of their little kingdom.
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This will be a blessing for Colbert. He will be free to do what he wants without the limits and constraints of broadcast tv.
 
Don CT said:
This will be a blessing for Colbert. He will be free to do what he wants without the limits and constraints of broadcast tv.
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I hope it is. But I’d prefer he have the opportunity to choose when to end the show rather than owners capitulating to a mafia-esque regime to get a dubious deal done.
 


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