{"id":1058,"date":"2026-06-03T16:14:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T16:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=1058"},"modified":"2026-06-03T16:14:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T16:14:02","slug":"ron-hart-colbert-and-kimmel-killed-late-night-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=1058","title":{"rendered":"RON HART: Colbert and Kimmel Killed Late Night Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_1 --> <\/p>\n<p><span>The great comedy tradition of Johnny Carson, Jay Leno and even David Letterman was ruined by a few arrogant heirs and woke CBS and ABC\/Disney executives.\u00a0 They slowly and \u201cwoke-ly\u201d suffocated late-night comedy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=1056\">Hollywood Scheming To Tank Paramount\u2019s Bid For Warner Bros. Discovery<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Late-night hosts became angry Progressives. Like the legacy media, which had become just a propaganda wing of the Democrat Party, they lost their way. We need an honest, fourth estate (media). I would argue that political satire is the fifth estate. Giving one party a monopoly on either is bad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The difference in what I do, (in which I state up front that I am a libertarian op-ed humorist) and what Kimmell and Colbert did is that they pretend to be independent arbiters of truth. Their networks are given free airways via the FCC (essentially, a monopoly for 3 channels) to go into almost every household in America. <strong>(RELATED: Donald Trump Tosses Stephen Colbert Into A Dumpster In Edited Video)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Political satire, done well, can make people think and speak truth to power. When the Taliban took back Afghanistan when our ill-planned debacle there ended, the first person they killed was a comedian known for making fun of them. It is why I have a pistol by my bed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Elon Musk opened up social media to a broad range of uncensored views when he bought Twitter, and the stranglehold died. Back then, if you questioned the Russia Hoax, election integrity and forced Covid vaccines you were deplatformed. Thank you Elon; you are a great African-American.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_2 --> <\/p>\n<p><span>When Obama ushered in the woke agenda, comedy died, slowly suffocated by its own left-leaning fear of offending anyone, and then by small, inorganic mobs of radical leftists who tried to cancel any voice with which they disagreed. Then, the autopen leftists of the Weekend at Bernie\u2019s White House of Biden kept Obama\u2019s cancel culture going.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Colbert had his own special brand of self-righteous, performative \u201cvirtue.\u201d Pretending to be a show host for everyone, he called the country \u201cidiots\u201d for electing Trump.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Late Show<\/span><\/i><span> spent $100 million (a year) and lost $40 million (a year). Colbert, who pretends to hate the rich, took home a reported $20 million of that \u2014 not exactly \u201csharing the wealth\u201d with his staff. His guests (almost all left-wing, B-level entertainers or politicians promoting something) appeared for free. The jokes and skits might have been written by the DNC or Big Pharma. In other words, money spent on union writers was wasted. <strong>(RELATED: Elon Musk On Track To Be World\u2019s First Trillionaire After latest Move)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_3 --> <\/p>\n<p><span>I am a free speech absolutist. This was not censorship that ended Colbert, it\u2019s clearly economics.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Having written this op-ed humor column for 25 years now, I espouse the right to be far more tolerant of humor; the left is perpetually offended and meddlesome. The woke left would be rich if pretending to be offended paid better.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=1054\">Trump To Attend Second White House Press Corps Dinner After Assassination Attempt<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>My only joke that upset a few religious right folks was: In this Christmas season, with wars over the Holy Land and Jesus\u2019s birthplace festering, let\u2019s remember that with science today we are learning more about Biblical events. For example, Mary and Joseph were supposed to name their baby Joseph Jr, not Jesus Christ \u2014 until Mary stubbed her toe.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And while they were slightly offended, a few religious right-types did not try to cancel me, they just voiced their objection to that joke. Weekly I would get small groups of woke mob, loud hyenas and leftist loons trying to cancel me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Most recently I got death and doxing threats from lefties when I wrote about the ICE detention center being built called \u201cAlligator Alcatraz.\u201d The joke was, folks were excited to have this built in the swampy interior lands of Florida, and even the alligators were excited to hear that there was going to be a new Mexican place opening near them. <strong>(RELATED: California\u2019s Bid To Unmask ICE Agents Goes Down In Flames)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The humorless left said I was calling for alligators to eat Mexicans. This is the same group who thinks \u201c86 47,\u201d which calls for the death of a sitting U.S. president, is super funny.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Selective outrage defines the left. Green Bay Packer Josh Jacobs was arrested for 5 counts, including for allegedly strangling and suffocating a woman. He came back to the Packers camp and the NFL said it was \u201cbusiness as usual.\u201d The media and late-night were silent. Jacobs is just accused of beating up a woman; it is not like he introduced Trump at a rally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Late-night entertainers consider those who harm ICE agents to be heroes. I remind the violent New Jersey ICE detention center protesters to look toward Lady Liberty in the New York harbor. That lady came here from France 150 years ago and still hasn\u2019t been allowed on the mainland.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>There is no appetite for humorless DNC talking points lectured waspishly to a dwindling audience. Thus, humor stopped working and the free markets did. We should celebrate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>A libertarian op-ed humorist and award-winning author, Ron does commentary on radio and TV. He can be contacted at Ron@RonaldHart.com or @RonaldHart on Twitter.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The views and opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the author and do not reflect the official position of the Daily Caller.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=1051\">Obamacare Enrollment Fraud May Cost Taxpayers Billions In 2026, New Study Shows<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The great comedy tradition of Johnny Carson, Jay Leno and even David Letterman was ruined by a few arrogant heirs and woke CBS and ABC\/Disney executives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[299,1475,1476,607,786,787],"class_list":["post-1058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting","tag-elon-musk","tag-green-bay-packers","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-ron-hart","tag-stephen-colbert","tag-the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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