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Leno Exposes Late Night’s 'Serious' Problem
Townhall.com ^ | March 21, 2019 | Chris Stigall

Posted on 03/21/2019 3:45:31 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Doogle

Colbert is on CBS, Kimmel is on ABC, and Fallon is on NBC. But all are DNC sock puppets.


21 posted on 03/21/2019 5:54:03 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: Doogle

Of the three main characters Stephen Colbert is the one I despise the most, by far.
He is so full of himself he thought he could get his sister elected to congress just by his endorsement.. Sorry Charlie.
He was really taken aback when she lost .
Disgusting creep.


22 posted on 03/21/2019 5:57:30 AM PDT by Vinnie
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To: miss marmelstein

You said it.


23 posted on 03/21/2019 5:58:42 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Gen.Blather

It’s part of “reparations”. /s

The FCC, don’t know if they still do it, but “race norm” the listener numbers for black-owned radio stations, basically screwing the advertisers for phantom audience numbers.


24 posted on 03/21/2019 5:59:50 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: NJRighty

I wished I could get antenna TV


25 posted on 03/21/2019 5:59:51 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: minnesota_bound

and that is probably 29 minutes to long.


26 posted on 03/21/2019 6:01:32 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

The Republican bashers are competing for the same fans. The reason Rush got so big is that he had no competition while the news networks were all competing against each other. Fox is #1 because no one is doing what Fox does. If the networks kill Fox, someone who wants to make money will have to create another one.


27 posted on 03/21/2019 6:03:30 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: AppyPappy

Fox is self-destructing anyway


28 posted on 03/21/2019 6:05:13 AM PDT by 38special (For real, y'all.)
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To: miss marmelstein

I also saw Leno back in the early ‘80’s. I don’t recall in any detail what he said, but I do remember that it was funny.

I remember that he told some jokes about his elderly parents; he talked about them in a way that was funny but loving at the same time. Something about a VCR.

I was talking to a friend of mine last night about “comedians” today. If they couldn’t talk about sex or bodily functions and couldn’t use the “f-word” most of them couldn’t talk at all. He said “they don’t have a sense of humor.” I couldn’t disagree at all.


29 posted on 03/21/2019 6:17:12 AM PDT by susannah59
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To: V V Camp Enari 67-68
I’ve given some thought to why it is not a single “late-night” show employs a host with some conservative (or even middle-of-the-road) political views to cater to the vast audience of normal Americans at their disposal.

The only answer I could come up with (and I think it’s a valid one) is that the networks realize the host would get the same treatment by the celebrity class that Donald Trump got on Inauguration Day.

No doubt most celebrities would both boycott the show and browbeat those who would even consider making an appearance.

30 posted on 03/21/2019 6:18:14 AM PDT by daler
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To: Kaslin

“A man hired to host a variety show on a major network has effectively declared sixty-plus million voters unwelcome to tune in. In an era of perpetual corporate panic and preoccupation not to offend - major television networks continue to openly embrace politically segregated programming as a preference.”

What I am doing is looking at publicly traded companies who have alienated 1/2 the country and see which ones are ripe for downside investments.


31 posted on 03/21/2019 6:19:28 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Trump is the best project/program/portfolio manager in the world!!!!)
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To: susannah59

None of them can work clean like the comedians of old who I still revere. There were a few geniuses like Richard Pryor and George Carlin who got quite filthy but they were geniuses, not morons like Colbert and the rest of the late nights.

The body function garbage they picked up directly from the Brits (and maybe Mel Brooks). The lowest form of humor possible.


32 posted on 03/21/2019 6:23:43 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: kosciusko51

“Colbert is on CBS, Kimmel is on ABC, and Fallon is on NBC. But all are DNC sock puppets.”

Kimmel is the worst because of “The Man Show.” The fact that leftist women stand behind him is testament to the fake outrage of the left.


33 posted on 03/21/2019 6:25:52 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Trump is the best project/program/portfolio manager in the world!!!!)
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To: mewzilla

They are already on the Antenna Network every night, they run the old 90 and 60 minute shows and they are great and fun to watch.


34 posted on 03/21/2019 6:30:07 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Kaslin

Because of the partisan stupidity that Colbert and others have been spewing, hardly anybody even watches late night talk shows anymore except for the partisan left... So if they don’t cater to them they would end up with no viewers at all and ultimately cancellation.

Pandering to the left is all they have. In fact, I’ll wager that more people tune into Johnny Carson re-runs on you-tube, than tune into the current tonight show on a daily basis.


35 posted on 03/21/2019 6:31:28 AM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: Kaslin
I wished I could get antenna TV

I get it over the air for free. No cable TV subscription needed for me to watch it. Go to their website, type in your ZIP code in the "channel finder" tab and see if it is available over the air in your area. An inexpensive indoor digital antenna might be all you need to invest in to get that station.

36 posted on 03/21/2019 6:40:21 AM PDT by NJRighty ("It's sick out there and getting sicker" - Bob Grant)
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To: miss marmelstein

I’ve been told, and probably you have too, The problem isn’t that the comedians aren’t funny; the problem is me. I don’t have a sense of humor. Not having the sense of humor of a 12-year-old boy is not the same thing as not having a sense of humor at all!

Most of them aren’t smart enough nor funny enough to make ordinary life the source of humor. Things like “Who’s on First” or the Tim Conway/Harvey Korman dentist skit are just beyond them.


37 posted on 03/21/2019 6:50:38 AM PDT by susannah59
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To: rhombus10
"self-absorbed, baby-killing salt pillars"

Most accurate label ever.

38 posted on 03/21/2019 7:11:00 AM PDT by Egon
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To: mewzilla
Somebody just buy the rights to Johnny Carson.

Reruns of the Tonight Show I would happily stay up to watch.

I'm pretty sure Carson, and now his sons and is regularly shown on 'Antenna TV' seven days a week.

Just as an aside, something that I noticed only years later watching reruns, as the years went by Carson was less and less concerned with keeping his far left lean hidden and it clearly came through when he had a like minded celebrity on the show. Though even then compared to the idiots on the late shows now he was politics neutral.

39 posted on 03/21/2019 8:38:46 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: kosciusko51

..guess you could tell I don’t watch late night azzholes..


40 posted on 03/21/2019 8:49:48 AM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73....8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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