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Wikipedia:
Mark Dice,[1] is an American video blogger, YouTube personality[3] and author known for his conspiracy theories about secret societies such as The Bilderberg Group, Bohemian Grove events, Satanists and the Illuminati control of the world.[4][5][6][7]

Probably believed Iraq had WMD.

https://x.com/wadestotts/status/1855052066093478265#m

https://x.com/TheChiefNerd/status/1871600142203412849

Colbert cuts off Claire Danes before she spills the tea about the intelligence community “allying itself” with the legacy media during Trump’s first term

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/potboiler-saturday-july-19-2025-c

The next delicious Times story ran late this week under the headline, “Fans React to Colbert ‘Late Show’ Cancellation With Puzzlement and Anger.” This one was even less amusing to progressives, generating even more overheated stories than NPR’s defunding, which is saying a lot.




On Thursday, Mr. Colbert announced live that CBS will close the curtain on The Late Show as of May 2026. The Late Show’s death sentence dropped like a piano from a Brooklyn tenement window, smashing not just Stephen Colbert’s career but a key cultural organ for post-Obama progressives.

According to the Times, fans flooded social media with “puzzlement and anger”— a journalistic admission that no one’s laughing anymore. By 2025, Colbert had long since completed his transformation from court jester to court stenographer, turning nightly monologues into moralizing lectures and bizarre medical rants wrapped in nervous applause lines.

Now, it’s curtains.

Colbert’s unfunny announcement arrived Thursday during a tearful backstage moment captured on his staff’s phones, a digital Irish wake already circulating among the last few loyal viewers. CBS cited a “strategic realignment.” In other words, “we’re bleeding money and TikTokers think this format is fossilized.” It was another scalp in this week’s wave of legacy media bloodletting, and unlike NPR’s defunding (which at least came with a political scapegoat), this one cut closer to the bone: Colbert was supposed to be the left’s comedic velvet hammer, arrogantly confirming liberal talking points with snide sarcasm and mocking conservatives whenever he got the chance.

Patrick says

Colbert was supposed to be the left’s comedic velvet hammer, arrogantly confirming liberal talking points with snide sarcasm and mocking conservatives whenever he got the chance.

Seriously, all politics aside, I never thought the guy was funny. Even pre-Late Show with John Stewart on Comedy Central. His bit and personality just weren't funny. Then he got political. Something most comedians know nothing about.

I cut the cable well over a decade ago. But in hotels and stuff you'd scroll past his show at night in the room. I don't think I laughed once anytime I stumble across his show(s). He just wasn't funny to me, which supposedly was his job. I kind of want to hate watch it now.

His last shows are going to be a sob story that somehow blames Trump for him not being funny. Trump is a masterful in getting into people's heads. Most days I don't even think of Trump unless he bombs Iran or something. I don't care about the Epstein stuff. Nothing will happen with the Russiagate stuff. I liked him better than Hillary or Harris or Biden so I voted for him. He doesn't consume my thoughts though. I don't let people do that.

Don't wish Colbert ill will as he likely has a family and such. But he needs to be off the air. He's actually probably a better writer than being on screen. He's not likable on screen.

Johnny Carson was funny, I'll say that John Stewart was funny when they weren't too TDS.

I think a lot of comedians were influenced by George Carlin (and he was good at political rants), and they tried to do the same, just not as well.

Fortwaye says

Johnny Carson was funny, I'll say that John Stewart was funny when they weren't too TDS.

I think a lot of comedians were influenced by George Carlin (and he was good at political rants), and they tried to do the same, just not as well.

Agreed even Stewart used to be funny before he drifted left. He eviscerated Tucker and the other guy on Crossfire before it got canceled, he was actually doing comedy and advocacy for the people back then.

Fortwaye says

I think a lot of comedians were influenced by George Carlin (and he was good at political rants), and they tried to do the same, just not as well.

Comedians have no business getting into politics with their monologue or act. To get a good act it's 6-12 months of writing and you still have to do shows, raise a family likely, etc. At minimum to talk politics you need to be reading 6-8 hours a day. You can have opinions which I don't take issue with, but they don't know what they're talking about 99% of the time.

Politics has to be YOUR life, not a writers as well which everything was written for Colbert. So you have a group of people writing and Colbert delivering stuff they know nothing about. Yet they acted like it was an informational show with some pretend bad comedy in there.

Shows like Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm are funny without being political. Not my favorites, but they were relatable to the average person. Colbert was a bit on the Daily Show and absolutely sucked on the Late Show. There's a reason he's getting the ax. Plenty of people still watch those shows at night. He sucked at his job. I'd want to relax and watch something funny and not political before bed.

https://covidsteria.substack.com/p/hollywoodsteria-best-colbert-and

I'm sure some USAID coin or its like was passed to the show.