TV Programming: Stephen Colbert Says Late-Night Talk Show Hosts’ Jobs Are No Laughing Matter
http://twitchy.com/warren-squire/2025/11/08/stephen-colbert-says-the-role-of-late-night-tv-is-to-tell-you-how-to-think-about-the-news-n2421386
Stephen Colbert demonstrating the proper way to give the Democrat Party salute.
Remember watching late-night TV several years ago and having a few laughs before drifting off to sleep? Well, alleged comedian Stephen Colbert says those hosts were doing it all wrong. He says his job is not to entertain you, but to indoctrinate you.
Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) ~ 🚨 NEW: Stephen Colbert Says the Role of Late Night TV is to Tell You How to Think About the News
“We're like your friend who ... paid attention to the news more than you did ... and then we curate that back to you at the end of the day. But it's really more about how we feel about it ... I'm really performing for the audience and the camera captures it.”
Video ~ http://x.com/i/status/1986765425246441743
Ah, I see ... YOU pay more attention to the news than everyone else does, eh? YOU "curate" ... that is, to SELECT AND ORGANIZE the "best, most appropriate" news for everyone else's consumption. So, YOU have the mistaken pomposity to believe that YOU desperately NEED to tell everyone else WHAT is important and HOW to think about it. But, in the end, it only really matters more how YOU feel about it all.
Heh heh heh heh heh ... but, Colbert, the actual truth of the matter is that YOU are nothing but a delusional, irrelevant douchebag whose opinion about anything means absolutely nothing to everyone else who possesses at least half-a-brain. CBS unceremoniously sh!t-canned YOU because you're obviously an unfunny, incompetent boob and a liar.
Ellie A (@EllieGAnders) ~ Amazing admission. Basically late night TV is propaganda. They'll tell you what to think.
rc1221 (@rc111606491) ~ Not just what to think, but how to feel. They curate clips in a manner which increases anger and outrage.
Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) ~ He said the quiet part out loud.
Drake (@NoMoreDaysLost1) ~ Genius thing to weaponize really. Give people their opinions when they're most exhausted, half awake, possibly medicated/intoxicated, and about to drift off with those curated talking points embedded in their subconscious. Then add doom-scrolling with an echo-chamber algorithm.
PAC-West After Dark (@GhostofLarrySc1) ~ “All those things from the day that made you confused, angry, anxious” ... so, basically we are here to amplify the worst of YOUR emotions.
Pretty much.
Yeah, Colbert's diseased narcissism has carried him off to his own methane saturated Never-Never Land.
Kevin M. Nelson (@KevinMNelsonUSA) ~ It was never about satire and entertainment. It was always about programming and propaganda.
Rob Smithson (@RobSmithson6) ~ Propaganda? COLBERT?? No WAY!
Video ~ http://twitter.com/i/status/1986992133811691587
One of the cringiest things we have ever seen on television.
It really makes us pine for the late-night hosts who knew their role.
GdayAmerica (@ArtistMuse1963) ~ Johnny Carson, the legendary late night host, warned of these mis-steps back in the 1980’s ... ⬇️
Video ~ http://twitter.com/i/status/1968496199792484401
Carson NAILED IT, right there!
Brett Yokom (@BrettYokom) ~ Johnny was actually good at his job. This current crop became wholly unfunny and woke and had no choice but to pivot away from comedy.
boston_ian (@Pr1meRealEstate) ~ There’s a self righteous, egotistical, arrogance about all of the late night hosts. Colbert happens to still believe most people don’t see him for the propagandist that he is. Hubris.
Nick (@Nick_SBSB) ~ Silly me, I thought their role was to make people laugh.
Nope. Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Myers, and the rest are there to brainwash you into the Democrat Party. See, late-night TV is really no laughing matter.
Poor, lil' Colbert ... he is finally coming to realize that he is a washed-up has-been who once had his moment in the spotlight - but, no longer - and he is raging against his irrelevance.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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