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When a network lays off one of America’s greatest satirists, it’s not because he failed. It’s because he succeeded too loudly.
Jul 18, 2025 at 5:48pmWeb
Show threadDamonHDJul 18, 2025

@godpod In the UK, if you visit the Houses of Parliament and have a copy of Private Eye (satirical mag) with you, it may get confiscated as "protest material"...

#PrivateEye #inconvenientTruths

Show threadTheosoreassJul 18, 2025
@DamonHD @godpod the odd minister refers to articles in it occasionally, though they all read it and in 2 or 3 years its stories may become news if the powers cant hide the story,power to the eye
Show threadTristan Colgate-McFarlaneJul 18, 2025
@godpod see also Ann Telnaes at WaPo
Show threadOregon Wine WomanJul 18, 2025
@godpod
Pardon my "french", but A-effing-men!
Show threadNelson JohnJul 18, 2025
@godpod "Exactly. When truth wrapped in satire hits too hard, the system gets uncomfortable. He didn’t fail—he threatened the narrative."
Show threadChris A MoodyJul 18, 2025
@godpod https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t615v1Iompc
When This Is Over, We'll Remember Who the Cowards Were

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Show threadFrank Bennett 🇯🇵Jul 18, 2025
@godpod As God is my witness, Stephen Colbert is not a satirist. He's a topical humorist. The two things are not the same.
Show threadThe Lack Thereof Jul 18, 2025
@fgbjr are you telling me that the Colbert Report was not satire?
Show threadFrank Bennett 🇯🇵Jul 19, 2025

@lackthereof Back in the day? That was. Light satire.

Context: A conservative relative (now MAGA) enjoyed the Report, thought it was funny. She was later dismayed to find that Stephen Colbert despises the cruelty of the Republican Party. She had understood the Report to be harmlessly poking at the innocent foibles of the heros presented on Fox News.

Full blown satire collapses those two impressions into a single experience, trapping us into confronting our own venality.

Show threadjerJul 19, 2025

@fgbjr

I wasn't aware that it's up to the consumer of the satire to be smart enough to understand that it's satire before it can count as satire. (Some venality just can't be reached.)

@lackthereof

Show threadFrank Bennett 🇯🇵Jul 19, 2025
@nyquildotorg @lackthereof The point is not about King Consumer, it's about the author, and authorial intent. But we're speaking at cross purposes. To say that something is not satire isn't to call it's quality into question. Colbert is a talented political commentator and humorist with a powerful and effective voice. I enjoy his work. It's not designed to inspire doubt and self reflection in his target audience, and *that's okay*. Because that's a different mode of discourse.
Show threadJoshJul 18, 2025
@godpod @blogdiva I am super stoked to give wherever he lands all CBS’ money. :)
Show threadSquiggleJul 19, 2025
@godpod @zog [Producers] agreed to pay Trump $16 million to settle a lawsuit over edits to an October 2024 interview conducted on CBS’s “60 Minutes” with Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris. Colbert, who frequently skewered Trump on his show, called the settlement a “big fat bribe” on air this Monday.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/18/cbs-cancels-stephen-colbert-00462089
Show threadSquiggleJul 19, 2025
@godpod OTOH Colbert's show was losing CBS millions of dollars. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/business/media/stephen-colbert-late-show-cbs.html
Stephen Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ Was Losing Millions at CBS Before Cancellation

CBS could not figure out a path to profitability in an entertainment world increasingly dominated by streaming.

The New York Times
Show threadkevinJul 19, 2025
@godpod Here’s my quandary, both or my quandaries. #starTrek and @theDailyShow.
Show threadwebonaire has moved!Jul 19, 2025
@godpod in case anyone didn't know or forgot about the cojones on this guy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X93u3anTco
Stephen Colbert Roasts Bush at 2006 White House Correspondents Dinner

Stephen Colbert mocks President Bush to his face at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Dinner.

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