Bleeping Bleep Bleep – Late Night's Dying Stab at Relevance

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This was the moment.

The late-night landscape is dying. Revenue is drying up. Iconic programs like “The Tonight Show” draw a fraction of their old audience. 

Today’s viewers get political humor from YouTube creators, Elon Musk’s X and their favorite podcasts, not stuffy late-night shows.

How would the remaining hosts respond to “The Late Show’s” shocking cancellation? Would they create a heartfelt but funny ode to Colbert’s reign? Remind audiences why we cared about these comic institutions in the first place?

Thank fans for their loyalty and vow the best is yet to come? Perhaps they’d respond with their funniest bits in ages.

Nah. They dropped the “F-bomb.” Again and again.

Colbert then appeared in an on-screen frame that said “Eloquence Cam” and, staring directly into the camera, affected a clipped New York accent: “Go f*** yourself.” (The f-bomb was bleeped out.)

He then attempted some comedy. Note the word “attempt.”

“And now,” Colbert said, “for the next 10 months, the gloves are off. I can finally speak unvarnished truth to power and say what I really think about Donald Trump, starting right now” — and he then offered this comically milquetoast critique of Trump: “I don’t care for him. Doesn’t have the skillset to be president. Not a good fit, that’s all.”

Inflation is down. Gas prices are, too. The job market is improving for American citizens, not illegal immigrants. Criminal gang members, ignored by the Biden administration, are now behind bars or deported.

Maybe he’s a better fit than we’re being told.

Not to be outdone, the late-night host who mainstreamed profanity into the format offered more of the same. “The Daily Show’s” Jon Stewart weighed in sans bleeps.

“Shows that say something, shows that take a stand, shows that are unafraid — this is not a ‘We speak truth to power.’ We don’t,” Stewart said. “We speak opinions to television cameras. But we try. We f—— try, every night.

Stewart and Colbert, along with Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers and John Oliver, ignored President Joe Biden’s obvious dementia-like condition for political reasons. Colbert and Kimmel helped raise money for Biden’s doomed re-election campaign.

In recent days, they ignored multiple Biden officials taking the Fifth rather than address the former president’s cognitive state.

Stewart kept on cursing, wrapping with a gospel choir singing “sack the f— up” or “go f— yourself.” No bleeps. Just stunning and brave profanity.

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The “Daily Show” host was let go by Apple TV+ in 2023 for dubious reasons. Stewart gave generic answers regarding the dismissal.

Some hero.

Meanwhile, the top-rated late-night show skewered the high-and-mighty Colbert for forgetting his prime directive.

Be funny.

“The free market is exactly that. Free to fire someone who’s stinking up the market like they took a dump in the produce section. That show is like the dope who maxed out the credit card because he thinks the stripper really likes him.”

It’s why Fox News’ “Gutfeld!” draws more eyeballs than any of his competition.