Thread 213853085

>"Stephen Colbert Is Too Talented and Too Essential to Go Away" - Conan O'Brien
Do you agree?

>>213853085 (OP)
I need a shit

>>213853283
fpbp

>>213853085 (OP)
Frankly his worst role has been Late Night with Stephen Colbert.
Strangers with Candy and the Colbert Report were better uses of his sense of comedy. Frankly pandering to the CBS Crowd (home of 6 NCIS shows) ultimately left him a bit limited in what he could do.
He's also not as good at playing himself as he is playing someone adjacent to himself. Playing a late night host generally made him come off as who he was a preachy educated liberal with a touch of Southern self-hate.
He will be back because he's in high demand and hopefully in the form of a character where he's best suited.

>>213853330
He's more likable when he's nerding out over LotR or something instead of politics.

I think they both need to go to Haiti, if you catch my drift.

>>213853085 (OP)
All these guys, Kimmel, O’Brian, commenting on this sound nervous as hell. They know their medium is dying and they’re afraid

>>213853085 (OP)
No and even leftists on x hate him now too.
>They shit on him for just make stale “DORMPHF GLORMPHF” bits about trump and giving softball humorous interviews to people like Kamala
>But suddenly acting like a serious journalist with hard questions when it comes to people like Zohran

>>213853085 (OP)
Fucking jews stick together

>>213853427
Colbert and Kimmel haven't been genuinely funny in years, if ever. They're completely politically driven. They need to go.

>>213853460
> Fucking jews stick together
If only. Conan is 100% Irish. Pure inbred.

>>213853539
They all do but the fact remains their very medium is dying. Only old people watch broadcast tv and they’re asleep by 10pm. There’s nobody left to watch

>>213853085 (OP)
I imagine more than one streamer is already negotiating with him.

Why are these fags always so faggy when they talk about each other

>>213853364
As a Democrat, he was best politically when he was a satire of his opposition as opposed to a representative for his position.
That being said, that too is a dead position, he can't just go back to the Colbert Report when between Jesse Watters on Fox News and guys like Charlie Kirk these guys are more of a satire of themselves.
With Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity there was a tinge of honesty and seriousness to their position, even with O'Reilly a pseudo-intellectualism.
But Jesse Watters is already a failed comedian listing off idiotic conservative takes every night on Cable TV, if he does a Podcast Charlie Kirk and Matt Walsh are many degrees more absurdly stupid in their delivery and take than Stephen Colbert's Colbert Report character could possibly be.
He'll find his last decade or so in entertainment somewhere. A Podcast, with Amy Sedaris and Paul Dinello would probably get traction fast.

>Propagandist who dumbs down complex political issues into bite sized jokes and presents them in funny voices is essential.
This is inherently undemocratic. In an educated society clowns like this wouldn't exist.

>>213853427
O'Brien is not even part of the medium anymore, and he's made millys outside of it. He's just paying lip service. The fact that nobody gave a shit about him or his show after getting the stinky boot from NBC was a blessing in disguise.

>>213853637
You failed to mention that he's basically a satire of a left-wing radical, so he basically became what he satirized, but on the opposite side of the political spectrum.

>>213853085 (OP)
essential to what?

Can't he just continue his show on Bluesky?

>>213853085 (OP)
>All your childhood/teenage heroes are dead or pathetic diminished shadows of their former selves, your generation sucks, and the following generations look to be even worse, unless Gen Alpha turn into a bunch of hyper-competent chads out of nowhere.

The absolute state of civilization.

>>213853283
fpbp /thread

>>213853085 (OP)
>Too Essential to Go Away" - Conan O'Brien
>Do you agree?
kwab
remember that conan is just another lying bitch in hollyjew

>>213853451
They think it's super cool to whine about blumpf and guys like Colbert are just doing it wrong and making them look bad.

>>213853085 (OP)
HITLERS LANGUAGE

>>213853855
Conan’s move to LA for The Tonight Show (and then his TBS show) made me realize how much of what I loved about Conan was actually his New York writing staff.

>I just want to say that the idea that Stephen Colbert‘s show was losing $40 million a year is beyond nonsensical. These alleged insiders who supposedly analyze the budgets of the shows — I don’t know who they are, but I do know they don’t know what they’re talking about. The financial loss reports seemed to only be focused on advertising revenue and have completely forgotten about affiliate fees, which number in the hundreds of millions — probably in total billions — and you must allocate a certain percentage of those fees to late-night shows.
>It really is surprising how little the media seems to know about how the media works. There’s just not a snowball’s chance in hell that that’s anywhere near accurate. Even that — that’s all you need to know. Suddenly he’s losing $40 million a year? I will tell you, the first 10 years I did the show, they claimed we weren’t making any money — and we had five times as many viewers on ABC as we do now. Who knows what’s true? All I know is they keep paying us — and that’s kind of all you need to know.

>>213853901
German?

>>213853901
Imagine being so aggressively cringe that Republicans seem like the cool counter-culture by comparison.

You know what really pissed me off? It's that people completely forgot about the context of the "Reality has a well known liberal bias" quote. He was playing a Bill OReilly type. Basically his point is the world is neutral but conservatives are so paranoid they think even the world has a left leaning bias.
Now retards quote that to mean the rest of the world is inherently liberal and left leaning, because it's the natural state of things, and that America is the odd one out because it's so right leaning. They never point out that outside of the US and a select few anglosphere countries everybody hates LGBTQ and racial diversity garbage.

>>213853085 (OP)
>Too Talented and Too Essential
NOPE
He's a Deep State Propagandist. He's not even worth the time of day.

>>213853922
>All I know is they keep paying us — and that’s kind of all you need to know.

>>213853637
He's not going back to comedy. He'll either have a political podcast that no one watches or a cable news show that no one watches.

>>213853637
This is the saddest post I have ever read

>>213854051
He's only ever been a satirist with a touch of sincerity.
He may still be political, but it will be with an underlying comedy to it.
I also think that last bit about a podcast with Amy Sedaris and Paul Dinello is realistic. Sedaris has an intellectualism to her but also has been making her means mostly off voiceover stuff and Star Wars slop so they're all in the right position to do a podcast that might come off as just the right amount of smart, absurd and stupid. Albeit slightly less Boomer than Bill Maher's podcast.

>>213853085 (OP)
Too essential... like nurses and doctors?

he's actually funny as an actor and voice actor
too bad he is a direction brained retard and will do anything to help his "team" win like do the most boring repetitive form of TV

>>213854229
I’d argue Colbert has been far more boomer than marh is since taking over the late show. Marh has always been a political comic and knows how to carry himself as an entertainer and a satirist (I misspelled it and it got autocorrected to satanist which seems apt) but Colbert has always just been an actor so worked better on his Comedy Central show because the character gave him enough distance to actually make comedy, him losing that just has him preaching on stage about how amazing the democrats are 5 nights a week without the expectation of humor or impartiality.

Jon Stewart and his consequences has been disastrous for journalism and nerds expectation of the media and what it is and means

What’s the last bit or sketch that you found funny that Colbert has done? What has been his Tomahawk moment?

>>213853637
All that text just to say you dislike Jess Watters.

I thought late night television was just being a mouthpiece to the dnc.

>>213853539
Even as far back as the man show Jimmy Kimmel was getting moved by 12 year old Any Milonakis selling adults cups of beer for a nickel.

>>213854565
It has been. Which is why only boomers are watching.

>>213853922
What the fuck does this even mean. I'm all one for distrusting the media but why would they lie about his show losing 40 million a year. In the age where all forms of media are hemorrhaging money and movies aren't making back their budgets why is Colberts show not being financially solvent so unbelievable especially since Late Night really suffered during the Biden years.

>>213854436
Very “essential”, if you know what I mean, anon.

>>213853922
>”Whoever reported that is lying!”
>”Who knows what’s true?”

>>213853708
Losing The Tonight Show and going to TBS was the best thing that could have happened to Conan. Peak Conan was him in the late slot, and it was immediately clear that him on TTS was going to be an extremely watered down version of his old show. You can find hours of clips of him on YouTube with very little from his time there, because the only funny moment I can think of was when Norm came on and roasted him for losing the show.

>>213854614
Are you retarded? Why would the demographic that's the least likely to vote for the Democrats watch something that's a mouthpiece for the DNC?

>>213853843
Late night tv has been completely discredited from at least when current year man became a thing

In the world of entertainment these guys got replaced by a fat guy from Pennsylvania and a Jew from Las Vegas.

>>213855092
Probably because they grew up with media controlled by one group for the majority of their lives and haven't broadened their information input.
It's not like late night television does huge numbers. There are different groups of boomers if that's what you're hung up on.

>>213853085 (OP)
Go make a podcast then and get probably about as many viewers as ethan ralph currently gets

>>213853085 (OP)
No and the phrase itself makes no sense

>>213853085 (OP)
Conan's a faggot

>>213853791
>left-wing radical
I think that's a stretch. He appeals to liberal boomers.

>>213855092
>Why would the demographic that's the least likely to vote for the Democrats watch something that's a mouthpiece for the DNC?
There's plenty of old boomers/gen xers still voting democrat like they have been for decades.
You guys obsess over online culture wars when most apolitical normies just blindly vote for their team.
Still think Kamala lost solely because was a Indian black woman. Normies solely vote off looks too.

>>213854477
Why can't you spell Maher correctly?

>>213853811
programming the audiences

>>213853330
You were one shy of the classic "Frankly hat-trick"! So close.

>>213855308
Because he’s not important enough to me to know how to spell his name. My dad likes him and that’s about it

>>213853085 (OP)
they openly say it. essential to keep the narrative going

>>213853539
It's hard to read a take like this as genuine and not a just a seething MAGAtard coping. Considering you picked the least political talk show host (Colbert) as a means for your gripe.

>>213853855
>you can't feel bad that someone you don't consider your friend died

>>213853085 (OP)
I thought Conan was based and /ourguy/ ???

>Skibidi Biden
>The Vaxx-Scene
>Two scoops

>>213856748
Whoops didn't mean Colbert, meant to say Conan.

>>213853085 (OP)
Oh, yay, another thinly veiled/pol/ thread.

>>213856834
Nah Conan’s been a gay fag ever since that Haiti thing

>From Jon Leibovitz on Colbert, to the celeb parade of vax shilling, to the freezing of Canadian bank accounts and the loss of trust in media. revisit pandemic psyops via this 30 min doc i edited "Colbert, Fauci & The Art of Covid Propaganda".

Watch:

https://archive.org/details/colbertfauciandtheartofcovidpropaganda
https://x.com/StrangelyComp/status/1827265524956271060

>>213853085 (OP)
I used to visit the US every year and I never got why the fuck people watched these shows, even 15+ years ago they were painfully boring.

>>213856748
>>213856860
Conan wasn't mentioned in that post, you psycho.

>>213853085 (OP)
They’re already betting on him being the lefts Rogen once he moves the internet lmao

>>213856998
Yeah I realized that. I have dyslexia.

>>213853085 (OP)
Wrong and wrong. Next.

Conan: "Check please."

>>213853811
lmao still laugh that he went there to prove it's not a shithole, required 8 armed security guards from time of touchdown to when they got to the gated resort that is protected by armed security and razorwire, and thought the entire time that haiti isn't a shithole run by crooks with an average IQ of 75-80 country wide.

>>213856816
he wrote lies and tried to portray a false narrative, and you are upset it was called out?

Most of you don't have the attention span to read and comprehend this, but:

Conan traditionally had the lead in latino viewership. Way more than any of the other late night hosts. When Late night shifted into a pro-Democrat messaging model during the 2010s, this is when Conan became more and more vocal about news affecting immigrants, Haiti, and latin americans.

When you peel back the business behind late night, suddenly you realize these mouthpieces all got paid to hit certain targets.

Now go back to spamming stupid shit.

>>213857693
>Conan traditionally had the lead in latino viewership.
He had 50k latinos compared to 40k the other ones had? Dayum....crazy....

>>213857004
Only decrepit boomers give a fuck about him.

>>213853637
You are an actual retard if you think Charlie Kirk is less serious than Bill O'Reilly.

>>213857684
What lies?

>>213856748
>>213856860
lol retard

>>213853085 (OP)
>The opinion of a man who failed at tv for 30 years

>>213853820
MSNOW has opening. They should send over a tape and some headshots. Pitch The Coco and Colbert Show.

>>213853922
Okay Jimmy. You've got the exact numbers for your show. To the very last dime. How about you release those and start a conversation.

No? Thought not.

>>213858441
>50k latino
More than that, billy

Isn't he like loaded with Emmy's and Peabody's? He should be fine.

>>213853085 (OP)
people said the same thing about Conan and he's basically been forgotten

>>213854229
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>>213860336
51k? Wowzah!

>>213856854
I was so thrown off by how cringe Skibidi Biden was it somehow looped over into being hilarious again.

>>213858519
He's just so much of an idiot that he immediately becomes less serious regardless of how serious he takes himself.

>>213853085 (OP)
>He's too big to fail WAAAAAAAH!!!!
Uh oh government bailout time

I remember in the dvd commentary for one of the Venture Bros. seasons, they talked about the reason why they recast Professor Impossible was because Stephen Colbert's agent told them that he "didn't have time for their little show anymore". I think that was pre Late Night and really soured me on the guy.

>>213857693

If we was really pandering to Latinos he would have said Haitians are all subhuman niggers who deserve to be sent to extermination camps because Dominicans fucking hate Haitians.

>>213853283
The exact level of reply OP deserves

>>213859009
>>213856816
>>213857684
for one, he banned norm from his show, and once norm died he comes out like "ooh i love norm and miss him and we was best buds" he even spoke about him on the goyflix tribute to norm
he banned norm from the show because some writers and interns cried over a norm #metoo joke and "didnt feel le safe around him"
tl;dr the worst thing is the hypocrisy

>>213857004
This just in: dumb nigger thinks TDS-afflicted celebrity #100000 will somehow be important

>>213861085
Conan's "We tried to have Norm on later, but it just never worked out!" lie. Said after Norm died and couldn't correct the record.

Coco is an utter crawly worm.

>>213853922
Why did he even say this
Like if you're gonna bullshit, lie better
He does nothing but talk for ages and make himself sound like a retard who knows nothing about his own show

>>213853085 (OP)

"There are entire graveyards full of 'indispensable men'. " But I'm old enough to remember genuinely enjoying him on Strangers with Candy, like this guy >>213853330 said.

>>213861985
fanta mussolini had Colbert fired because he's the only one with the courage to call him out

>>213860178
What a budget rebrand

>>213853085 (OP)
Even if I did, I'd have to go contrarian to what that faggot Conan says.

>>213853085 (OP)
Colbert basically ghosted everyone that helped break him in to the business. He's a douchebag that deserves worse than he's ever gonna get.

>>213853922

>All I know is they keep paying us — and that’s kind of all you need to know.

What an idiotic thing to say. How does your continuing to receive a payment from a totally different business factor into your claim that a separate network eliminated his show due to budget cutting?

>>213857004
I keep hearing he’s signed onto a deal with CNN, I doubt Colbert would have the savvy to be successful on YouTube. The fucker should just do a flat out sketch show, he’s been mired in satire for decades now, stretch your legs and try art again for a change

>>213857693
I think late night show hosts are just wealthy and they have sex, so they don't act like retarded Trump supporting incel pedos. There's no side business to it.

>>213862964
Say 3 things about the democrats that you don't like

>>213861085
>>213861905
I thought that happened on Fallon's show--Fallon had to ban him because his shitty staff had a meltdown. You are saying it happened on Conan's show too?

>>213853085 (OP)
No, Stephen has lost his talent and stopped being essential a decade ago. Late night tv in general is shit and needs to fuck off.

>>213863116
The fact that all of them get into such a fucking shit fit when told that they should prioritize being a comedy show for everyone rather than a banal soap box for a political party should show you how bad the situation is

>>213853922
>I will tell you, the first 10 years I did the show, they claimed we weren’t making any money — and we had five times as many viewers on ABC as we do now. Who knows what’s true? All I know is they keep paying us — and that’s kind of all you need to know.
Lol, did he just admit to be a propaganda machine?

>>213863059
Fallon did publicly. Insistently. But Conan did too.

>>213853085 (OP)
certainly too talented to be wasting it on a boomer show

>>213853085 (OP)
he's neither of those thing

>>213863273
It’s funny to think that the ladies at the view had more backbone than any late night host

>>213853283
/thread

>>213853085 (OP)
>too talented
>too essential

too scoops.

>>213860914
He was great in Harvey Birdman too

>>213857004
why do they need a "left joe rogan" they have literally every other celebrity and onions podcast

he peaked in the bush era when things were a bit more lighthearted. He just comes off as a seething liboomer now obsessed with Trump like a cat lady wine aunt

>>213853330
I for one appreciate your frankness