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What you see before you is one of the smuggest, most insufferable Left Wing prigs in the US “Entertainment” industry, Stephen Colbert, host of the formerly great The Late Show.

Which will be cancelled at the end of this season.

It was once a pretty good show, hosted by David Letterman from 1993 as CBS segued his  Late Night with David Letterman show over from NBC where it had run since 1982. That ’82-’93 version was especially great because it was genuinely whacky and funny as Letterman tried to differentiate himself from the champion of late night TV, Johnny Carson, whose Tonight Show on NBC preceded Letterman’s every weeknight, starting at 11pm Eastern Time IIRC, hence the “Late Night” title for Letterman’s midnight to 1am effort. In Chicago of course that meant an hour earlier; there were few weeknights I’d have stayed up until 1am just to watch Letterman.

When Carson retired in 1993 the role was taken by comedian Jay Leno and continued to be almost as successful, with millions of viewers (though never quite as high or consistent as during Carson’s 30 year stint), running until 2014. His approach to the show had a lot of similarities with Carson, possibly best captured in movies where he cameoed, like Dave and Space Cowboys.

In fact the Space Cowboys part was done as a normal ten minute segment of his show where Leno and the actors simply pretended it was a real Tonight Show guest set in front of a live audience, with the actors, James Garner. Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, and Clint Eastwood staying in character. Bits were then simply selected for the movie. Click the link to watch. Wonderful stuff.

Letterman had hoped to inherit the job, so when he didn’t it was off to CBS until he retired in 2015.

Late night TV is a very American thing, not really repeated anywhere else in the Western world, or at least not consistently. The paradox is that Carson was the king of the hill for two decades as competitors rose and fell against him, yet it has only been since his retirement that other shows have flourished even as their audiences have shrunk.

And what they have shrunk too are apparently Left-Wingers who must be fed and watered to retain them. Carson, Leno and even Letterman, stuck it to both Democrats and Republicans over the decades, and also to figures Left and Right. Here’s an example of Carson in 1988 having fun with a politician who would himself one day reach the top of the hill:

But that sort of humour, gently poking the borax at a Democrat or a Lefty idea and expecting the audience to have some knowledge, stopped a decade ago and Colbert was one of the leaders in doing that. The show, pulling just 2 million viewers per night or fewer, became a toxic cesspit of bitter humour and snark aimed at everything right-wing – even the Republican party. But what follows is perhaps is the cringiest thing he ever did, plus the contrast with what he was saying in mid-2020 when Hitler was President:

What a partisan piece-of-shit political shill.

This cancellation is made even more delicious is that it’s happened because Colbert was volcanic about CBS settling its defamation lawsuit with Trump for $15 million. Like much of the rest of the MSM, he blasted CBS management – live on his show.

Delicious. Colbert debuted the year Trump stood up to run for President, has hated his guts every moment since then, done everything to take him down and hold up his pathetic successor, and has now been taken out by Trump.

It could only be more perfect if the same thing happened to his comrades in the Late Night business, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Myers, and company.