This year strongly hinted at the end of a broadcast network era for the late-night comedy show. CBS made the bold move by declaring that it would only award one more season to “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” In the Johnny Carson era, his show dominated the airspace. Today the “comedians” cater to a left-wing audience in what sounds like group therapy.
President Donald Trump’s re-election was a powerful signal that the continued mockery of the “Orange Man” was not stopping him from winning. But liberal pundits still equated comedians with democracy. On ABC’s “The View,” co-host Sunny Hostin dramatically proclaimed that this decision to stop losing money on Colbert was not financial (as CBS claimed). “This is the dismantling of our democracy. This is the dismantling of our Constitution.” She brought up that old adage about liberals “speaking truth to power.” But they never speak truth to ‘power’ when their favorites win. They did not speak “truth” when former President Joe Biden was clearly in cognitive decline.
Late-night comedians’ most memorable moments in 2025 were irredeemably nasty. Take Jon Stewart during his Monday-only appearance on “The Daily Show,” in which he mocks the free market in February. ‘Capitalism is by definition exploitation. That’s how it works. That’s fine. But the role of government should be to alleviate the negative consequences of that exploitation for Americans, not to subsidize that betrayal with our money. [bleeped] at a Diddy party and they make us buy the baby oil!”
That’s not as nasty as Stewart’s old underling John Oliver on HBO’s “Last Week Tonight” in March, in which he disparaged former President Ronald Reagan. “I have to admit, you can say positive things about Reagan, like ‘He was our only president who made a movie with a chimpanzee’ or ‘He’s dead.’ But his moral clarity may come as a surprise to all homosexuals who lived through the 1980s. “I’m just saying, if you brought Reagan back from the dead and told him all the racist things Trump has been up to in less than two months, he’d come so hard he’d die again.”
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“The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” and guest Prince Harry during the Wednesday, December 3, 2025 show. (Scott Kowalchyk/CBS News via Getty Images)
The late night guests knew how to echo their hosts. When Trump took over operations at the Kennedy Center, actor Nathan Lane unleashed a tirade on the Colbert show, mocking what Trump would show on stage. “Like tomorrow night, they have a youth choir made up entirely of Elon Musk’s children. Since ‘Hamilton’ has called off his engagement, they’re producing Lee Greenwood’s all-rap musical tribute to Ronald Reagan starring Kanye West. It’s called ‘Trickle Down.’ This will be followed by a new production of ‘The Sound of Music’, told from the point of view of the Nazis. Trust me, believe me, you don’t want to hear the list of their favorite things.”
Even America itself was destroyed because of Trump’s re-election. British actor Alan Cumming performed a superiority dance on Jimmy Kimmel’s show in July. “America, how are you? No, really, how are you? I mean, how are you, besides the fact that you’re a country that just reintroduced concentration camps, took away healthcare from 17 million people to give billionaires a tax cut, and also finance an armed militia of masked men who commit horrific kidnappings and crimes against humanity on a daily basis? Besides all that, are you doing? I wouldn’t have thought so.”
This might help people understand why these shows are dropping in the ratings. You must be in a special category of haters to end your day with these rants. NewsBusters’ Alex Christy found that 92% of political jokes told on late-night shows were about conservatives, up from 82% in 2024. The guest list was even worse, almost unanimously left-wing 99% of the time: 196 liberals to just two conservatives. Jimmy Fallon’s conversation with Greg Gutfeld was striking for how remarkably rare it was.
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The worst late night of the year, of course, was Jimmy Kimmel’s blatant lie about the political views of Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer. “We hit some new lows this weekend as the MAGA gang desperately tried to characterize this kid who killed Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of their own and did everything they could to score political points.”
It was a new low. It was a time for mourning, not ridicule and lies. Two channel groups decided to refuse to air Kimmel’s show, so ABC shut it down… for four programs. Four reruns of ‘Family Feud’. But the elite media suffered from fits of rage for a month. CNN host Jake Tapper stated on the Seth Meyers show, “I thought this was pretty much the most direct government intrusion on free speech that I’ve seen in my life.”
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Kimmel ended the year with the award for the “Alternative Christmas Message” on Britain’s Channel 4, where Kimmel, like his guest Alan Cumming, labeled America a “right mess,” a crumbling democracy in a country full of dummies. “We’re not smart. We’re Americans. No one knows better than you. We’re always a little late to the game, but will we get through it in the end? Maybe. Give us about three years. Please.”
ABC only extended Kimmel’s contract for one year, because there’s only so much money a company is willing to lose for someone’s terribly nasty “free speech.” Kimmel can still follow Colbert out the door, since he’s not into broadcasting, just digital signage.
