CBS’ current cancellation of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” has had a reverberating impact on the tv panorama. Whereas most have expressed shock and even rallied assist across the late night time comedy staple, former “Tonight Show” host Jay Leno and former CNN anchor Piers Morgan have some contrasting views concerning the state of late night time.
Leno, who exited the late night time TV scene in 2014, says he doesn’t subscribe to mixing politics and humor for a mass viewers — a formulation Colbert has favored since his Comedy Central heyday with “The Colbert Report.”
“I like to think that people come to a comedy show to kind of get away from the things, the pressures of life, wherever it might be,” the comic mentioned throughout an interview with David Trulio for The Ronald Reagan Presidential Basis. “And I love political humor, don’t get me wrong, but what happens (is) people wind up cozying too much to one side or the other.”
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Stephen Colbert on ‘The Late Present with Stephen Colbert’ in 2023. (Scott Kowalchyk/CBS)
He added: “Funny is funny …. I don’t think anybody wants to hear a lecture.”
Leno’s chat was apparently carried out earlier than CBS introduced the tip of “The Late Show” after greater than 30 years.
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Anti-Trump demonstrators collect exterior the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York Metropolis final week to protest the cancellation of ‘The Late Present with Stephen Colbert.’ (Picture by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
Morgan expressed much less tact in his ideas concerning the present hosts of late night time TV exhibits.
The British broadcaster and former winner of “The Apprentice” gloated concerning the Colbert cancellation on social media.
“This is so damning,” he tweeted on Sunday. “Most of America’s biggest late-night hosts have become nothing more than hyper-partisan activist hacks for the Democrats – a party that’s rarely been more unpopular. No wonder Colbert got canned. More will follow.”
His remark echoes what the 79-year-old MAGA chief shared on social media days earlier — claiming to have inside information concerning the destiny of exhibits hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon, within the wake of CBS pulling the plug on the top-rated “Late Show,” in what they mentioned was “ purely a financial decision.”
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