And we're not done. The firing of Stephen Colbert makes it more likely the fat sack of anger and erectile dysfunction Jimmy Kimmel also be fired. Iger can't keep telling shareholders he's losing $35 million per year (or whatever) just for the sake of anti-Trump propaganda.

And of course we've already heard that Kimmel's contract is up next year and no one at ABC is rushing to re-sign him.

So now he's sniping at CBS.

The decision, described by the network as a "purely financial" one amid the ongoing Paramount-Skydance merger, has drawn sharp criticism from Kimmel, who didn't mince words in his public rebuke of CBS.

Kimmel, host of Disney ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live!, took to Instagram Stories shortly after Colbert's emotional on-air announcement, sharing a clip of his colleague breaking the news to viewers.

"Love you Stephen. F*** you and all your Sheldons CBS," Kimmel wrote, referencing the network's long-running sitcoms The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon as a jab at the network's programming priorities.

The blunt message quickly went viral, with celebrities like Adam Scott, Judd Apatow, and Katie Couric echoing support for Colbert while amplifying Kimmel's frustration.

Katie Couric is a celebrity?

What century was this article written in?

Paramount says the decision is "purely financial."

Boy they're not kidding.

CBS lost $40 million on Colbert's show this year alone.

Sources inside CBS have suddenly become much more forthcoming about the sobering economics of late-night television in 2025--go figure-- revealing that The Late Show with Stephen Colbert has recently been running at an annual shortfall of $40 million.

If that sounds unthinkable for the #1 rated show at 11:35pm, consider this: as Matt Belloni reports today in Puck, back in 2018, all of late-night television combined generated $438 million in advertising revenue. By 2023, that number had been cut in half, and it has continued to fall.

Given that The Late Show--with its handsomely paid host and a staff of roughly 200 employees--reportedly costs CBS $100 million per year to produce, that $40 million figure becomes easier to understand.

Belloni also reports that CBS executives had been discussing the future of its Late Show franchise for months, and that Colbert's team was informed around July Fourth that the show was in jeopardy.

Ah. As I suspected: Colbert "got brave" on July 7th and denounced his network only after the network told him they were cancelling his Regime "Comedy" propaganda hour.

("Regime Comedy" was used by Ed Morrissey in his post.)

$40 million lost in a single year. And yet the left is OUTRAGED that one of their money-losing propagandists is losing his job.

Simpering fembots like Chris L. Hayes (an Allahpundit fave) are crying that firing their shareholder-value-destroying, no-advertisers-want-to-touch-them TV clowns means that Democracy Is Dying In Darkness.

Oh?

Skip to 5:00 if you want to see Stephen Colbert's Regime "Comedy" in the past year.

How much money do you think the even-worse-rated Kimmel is costing ABC's beleagured, abused shareholders?

Regime "Comedy" is over.

#ResistanceMedia is going bankrupt.

Regime Comms are being turned off, one by one.

It's all coming crashing down, and I couldn't be happier.

All of these talentless, hateful cunts are bad memories of a wretched age -- the age of covid and conspiracies -- that most normies want to forget.