Posted on 08/05/2023 6:50:32 PM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1
Experts cite declining viewership of hosts like Colbert and Kimmel, begging the question if they're still relevant.
Political satirist Tim Young says their months-long absence makes it "easy to forget" about them.
"Their tired attempts at making funny news-based monologues that were always about Trump had become exhausting and unquotable, so they'd rarely even be covered by entertainment news anymore," Young told Fox News Digital. "Late night shows are so forgettable that I think people have just moved on... they just aren't missed." Viewership across the late-night landscape had been dropping long before the writers strike. In 2018, the midpoint of Trump's presidency, Colbert averaged 3 million viewers. In 2023, the "Late Show" audience fell to 2.1 million, losing nearly a third of viewers the process. Fallon lost almost half of his audience during the same timeframe, going from an average of 2.3 million viewers in 2018 to 1.3 million in 2023.
Kimmel, who notably expressed he didn't mind in 2017 if viewers were turned off by his liberal politics, shed roughly half a million viewers since 2018, averaging just 1.5 million this year.
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Nobody is watching these shows except Boomers and old Gen-X’ers.
Yep.
It’s a good thing they don’t.
I doubt it.
May their “shows” stay off the air permanently!
Not me!
I know.
Colbert is off the air?? yes, there is a God in Heaven!
Colbert is like some kind of blend of a homosexual woke fascist grandmother. The guy is an absolutely disgusting propagandist.
That’s too bad about Kimmel.
Sniff. 😂😂😂
I don’t know anyone who cares much about liberal hate night garbage. It won’t be missed.
The union pigs are striking right now in their effort to raise more money for the far-left massas. They want to make sure the commies and Nazis continue their takeover of America.
Bring back Jonny Carson reruns!
There were a few decades where almost EVERYONE stayed up for, at least, the Johnny Carson opening monolog. We were working a swing shift at a large grocery store. We had a radio that had AM FM SW & some television audio reception. At exactly 11:30pm we would make sure to catch The Tonight Show opening monolog. Oh! Those were the days!
Funny you should say that. I think I stopped watching late night shows before Carson retired.
Which is another way of saying I can’t miss what I’ve never watched.
Kimmel was funny at the time. So he has the talent for it if he's not too woke.
I was going to say Toruń Carson and ratings will go up.
I remember Kimmel when he co-hosted “Win Ben Stein’s Money” on the 90s. I wonder what his politics were back then. Too bad Stein didn’t rub off on him.
I think it was a different time. Now everyone is like LeBron James. A follower of Che Guevara.
Can’t remember where I read it years ago but someone said in a classroom of K-6 kids there was a TV in the corner above the class and it had only snow for about 10 minutes. All the kids one by one stopped talking and stared almost in a trance silently looking at the screen watching for the educational program to start.
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