Well, it’s official: “The Colbert Report” is finally getting canceled. It’s no longer called that, mind you. It’s now “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.” Nobody seemed to realize that, when David Letterman’s old gig was given to Colbert on the basis of his annoying, fake, facile, inflammatory right-wing pundit, he wasn’t really playing a character — he was just an annoying, fake, facile, inflammatory left-wing pundit instead. At the point you realized the whole act wasn’t an act but sincerely who he was, it got a lot less funny.
There are no shortage of reasons why Colbert’s show will soon be no longer. Call it the decline of the late-night talk show or blame it on Colbert’s obnoxious prep-school bully personality on top of his politics, or maybe even note that, in future years, “The Vax-Scene Dance” will replace “Jumping the Shark” as a pop-culture colloquialism for the moment where a show has officially reached the point of profoundly diminishing returns:
In other news, Stephen Colbert’s late-night “comedy” show has been canceled by CBS.
Couldn’t happen to a better guy.
Also, that reminds me of his “vax-scene” skit.
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