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CNN's Scott Jennings Had the Perfect Response to Stephen Colbert's Show Being Canceled

Matt Vespa
Matt Vespa  |  July 23, 2025 12:30 PM

 

The irony about The Late Show with Stephen Colbert being canceled is that the reactions have been more humorous than anything this show has produced in years. A painfully unfunny show that loses tens of millions of dollars a year is getting axed, and people see Donald Trump’s fingerprints all over this, in CBS’ legal dispute with the president. Trump sued them over editing a shambolic 60 Minutes’ interview with Kamala Harris in 2024, making her seem less stunad, though it didn’t help. He won, securing a total of $36 million from the network’s brass, both old and new, in this dispute. 

The lefty reactions to Colbert's show being trashed have been nothing short of ridiculous. There were protests...who has time to do that?

First, this isn’t some authoritarian exercise. Second, get a grip.  CNN and Salem Radio's Scott Jennings and guest Kevin O’Leary both had good takes for why this show is getting trashed. Jennings, though, had the smackdown lines:

Look at the reporting on this on and off the record. Executives all over are saying we had to do it for financial reasons. This is a massive show with a massive staff. It’s losing a massive amount of money. This is the nature of the TV business right now. You just are not economically viable. If you’re supposed to be doing a comedy show, that’s not funny, that’s losing $50 million a year. I mean, only — only liberals, extreme liberals would think that we have to keep subsidizing partisan rants every night that are economically not viable just because. Why? It makes absolutely no financial sense. He works for a for-profit company. Don’t you have to turn a profit at some juncture? And he’s not doing it. And you know, there’s a lot of people in this general business right now who think that I exist to go after Donald Trump at all costs, But no one stops to think, do I exist to make money or not? Maybe these things aren’t compatible When you cut out half the country from your possible audience.” 

If you lose $50 million, you’re going to get the boot. It’s that simple.  

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Colbert, stop sucking. It’s too late for that.  

Trump is still president, and your show is going away. What’s not to love about that?