CBS is ending Colbert’s Late Show as ratings sink amid growing concerns of bias
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This year marked the end of the network’s late-night comedy era. CBS made the bold move of announcing that it has given “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” one more season. In the Johnny Carson era, his show dominated the airwaves. Today, “comedians” cater to leftist audiences in what feels like group therapy.
The re-election of President Donald Trump strongly demonstrated that the constant mockery of the “Orange Man” did not prevent him from winning. But liberal comedians still equate comedians with democracy. On ABC’s “The View,” Sunny Hostin surprisingly announced that the decision to stop losing money on Colbert was not a financial one (as CBS claims). “This is the dismantling of our democracy. This is the dismantling of our Constitution.” He brought up that old saw about liberals “speaking truth to power.” But they never speak truth to “might” when their favorites win. They didn’t “tell the truth” when former President Joe Biden was apparently losing his mind.
The most memorable moments from late-night comedians in 2025 were irredeemably bad. Take Jon Stewart during his Monday-only gig on “The Daily Show,” poking fun at the free market in February. “Capitalism is exploitation. It’s the way it works. That’s right. But the role of government should be to alleviate the negative effects on the American people of that exploitation, not to fund that manipulation with our money. We get [bleeped] at Diddy’s party and they made us buy baby oil!”
That’s not bad since the old Stewart supported John Oliver on HBO’s “Last Week Tonight” in March, bashing former President Ronald Reagan. “I’ll admit that there are nice things you can say about Reagan, like ‘He was the only president of ours who made a movie about a monkey,’ or ‘He’s dead.’ But his moral clarity may come as a surprise to any gay people living in the 1980s. I mean, if you brought Reagan back from the dead and told him all the racist dirt Trump managed to do in less than two months, he’d be hard-pressed to die. “
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“The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” and guest Prince Harry during Wednesday’s December 3, 2025 show. (Scott Kowalchyk/CBS News via Getty Images)
Night guests could echo their hosts. When Trump took office at the Kennedy Center, actor Nathan Lane made a splash on Colbert’s show, teasing what Trump would say on stage. “Like the next night they have a youth choir made up entirely of Elon Musk’s kids. Because ‘Hamilton’ canceled his engagement, they produced a rap song for Lee Greenwood all on Ronald Reagan starring Kanye West. It’s called ‘Trickle Down.’ That is followed by a new production of ‘The Sound of Music’ told from a Nazi perspective. Trust me, trust me, you don’t want to hear a list of their favorites.”
Even America itself was trashed by re-electing Trump. British actor Alan Cumming performed a dance performance in July on Jimmy Kimmel’s show. “America, how are you? No, really, how are you? I mean, how are you doing without a country that just revived concentration camps, took away health care from 17 million people for billions in tax cuts, and funded an armed army of masked men who commit kidnappings and heinous crimes every day, with no basis in humanity? he thought.”
This can help people understand why these games are sinking in the ratings. You have to be a special class of haters to end your day with these greens. Alex Christy at NewsBusters found that 92% of political jokes on late-night talk shows were about conservatives, up from 82% in 2024. The guest list was even worse, almost unanimously on the left, 99% of the time: 196 liberals to just two conservatives. Jimmy Fallon’s interview with Greg Gutfeld lasted because of how rare it was.
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The night’s worst moment of the year was clearly Jimmy Kimmel’s blatant lie about alleged killer Charlie Kirk’s political views. “We had a blast over the weekend with the MAGA gang trying to label this kid who killed Charlie Kirk as anything but one and doing everything they could to score political points from him.”
It was a new low alright. It was a time for mourning, not for mockery and lies. Two affiliates of the station decided to refuse to air Kimmel’s show, so ABC shut it down … for four shows. Four reruns of “Family Feud.” But the elitist media had about a month. CNN anchor Jake Tapper announced on the Seth Meyers show, “I thought it was the most direct government violation of free speech that I’ve seen in my life.”
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Kimmel closed the year by being awarded “Another Christmas Message” on Britain’s Channel 4, where, as his guest Alan Cumming, Kimmel slammed America as a “righteous mess” with a crumbling democracy in a nation full of dummies. “We’re not shining. We’re Americans. No one knows better than you, we’re always a little late in the game, but are we coming to the end? Maybe. Give us three years. Please.”
ABC only extended Kimmel’s contract for one year, because there’s only so much money a business wants to lose to someone who’s “freedom of speech” is so bad. Kimmel can still follow Colbert out the door since he’s not broadcasting anymore, he’s only broadcasting.
