Stephen Colbert is such a cynical, hateful unfunny worm

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franz wrote:

I am talking about the organization that athletes and celebrities have been donating to. The organization’s goal is to essentially overthrow the ‘nuclear family structure’. They have now removed this from their website to disguise their true goals as an organization.

Their goal was never “to overthrow the nuclear family structure “ - don’t be a sheep. Banding together as a community to raise children so that a nuclear family isn’t required is not the same as having a goal of destroying nuclear families. Not even close.

Anyway, seems soooooo relevant to a thread about people pretending to have liked Colbert before but not now.

Colbert's show skyrocketed to number one with Trump's election. Colbert fulfilled a very needed role for the country. Trump constantly flooded the media with self reports of him being spectacular. He also forced all of his appointees to heap the most sickening praise upon him. At meetings they would go around and each person would have to praise Trump as if he was a God. It was bizarre.

We needed someone with Colbert's cutting wit to take Trump as a counter balance. To say the emperor has no clothes. Colbert is excellent.

That said, I did think he show started losing some creativity when he worked without an audience.

My favorite is Jimmy Kimmel. He is politically very astute and very funny. Where Colbert often seems like he is playing a role, Kimmel seems more genuine to me.

Flagpole wrote:

pauliewalnuts12 wrote:

I just watched his hot take on the capitol being stormed.

In addition to being smarmy, arrogant and spiteful towards “the other” (ie middle America), his monologue was painfully unfunny and hackneyed. Reddit-tier humor.

It’s clear he sees himself as some sort of modern-day Thomas Paine. He’s really just unfunny. And I used to like him. Sad!

Colbert is smart, witty, funny, and talented. He's also a good interviewer. Your political bias prevents you from recognizing talent.

So much for the tolerant left.......................

Dan Kahneman wrote:

i detest dems and reps wrote:

Meh. Selective outrage.

I'm sick of Democrats and Republicans. Both sides have violent extremists supporting their causes and are unwilling to cut them off. Extremists on both sides have committed deplorable violence. Both sides downplay the violence done by their own supporters as being people on the fringe and are quick to criticize the other side as being consumed with violence while not admitting to their own culpability. Sick of all of them. It's like two bratty kids claiming, "But he started it."

This is a good example of false equivalency. The Republican extremists were incited to attack our government by the leader of the party. I did not hear Joe Biden inciting the rioters to riot. Huge difference.

i detest,

You deleted and changed my quote. I gave you the truth, BUT YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!

Sorry.

pauliewalnuts12 wrote:

I just watched his hot take on the capitol being stormed.

In addition to being smarmy, arrogant and spiteful towards “the other” (ie middle America), his monologue was painfully unfunny and hackneyed. Reddit-tier humor.

It’s clear he sees himself as some sort of modern-day Thomas Paine. He’s really just unfunny. And I used to like him. Sad!

When people finish a thought with "sad!" I just know they're a butthurt trumper

otter wrote:

BLM!! wrote:

Colbert Report was funny I guess, but his Late Night show is pretty bad. Even if you’re liberal, it’s been the same Trump jokes for 4 years now just like the other late night shows. It makes it kind of hard to enjoy.

This is how I see it. His entire show revolves around poking fun at Trump. He is good at it but you kind of know why he is going to say every night. I

If he wants to have a show past this month he is going to have to reinvent himself. Right now I find him to be boring. I’m not alone.

Well the majority likes him so he'll be fine.

Colbert is just the modern day Johnny Carson, Their Personalities are so similar.

WinnytheBish wrote:

otter wrote:

This is how I see it. His entire show revolves around poking fun at Trump. He is good at it but you kind of know why he is going to say every night. I

If he wants to have a show past this month he is going to have to reinvent himself. Right now I find him to be boring. I’m not alone.

Well the majority likes him so he'll be fine.

Well, yes, the majority of leftist nutjobs do so that may not necessarily be a good thing.

You seem to believe in bias without any evidence, which isn't surprising considering you support Dumb Trump.

pauliewalnuts12 wrote:

I just watched his hot take on the capitol being stormed.

In addition to being smarmy, arrogant and spiteful towards “the other” (ie middle America), his monologue was painfully unfunny and hackneyed. Reddit-tier humor.

It’s clear he sees himself as some sort of modern-day Thomas Paine. He’s really just unfunny. And I used to like him. Sad!

Word. Leftists get so full of themselves they are unbearable. Colbert is a complete hack now.

Dan Kahneman wrote:

i detest dems and reps wrote:

Meh. Selective outrage.

I'm sick of Democrats and Republicans. Both sides have violent extremists supporting their causes and are unwilling to cut them off. Extremists on both sides have committed deplorable violence. Both sides downplay the violence done by their own supporters as being people on the fringe and are quick to criticize the other side as being consumed with violence while not admitting to their own culpability. Sick of all of them. It's like two bratty kids claiming, "But he started it."

This is a good example of false equivalency. The Republican extremists were incited to attack our government by the leader of the party. I did not hear Joe Biden inciting the rioters to riot. Huge difference.

I seem to remember his veep encouraging them on some widely circulated show. Whose show was that again. Oh that's right Colbert's.

douglas burke wrote:

Colbert is just the modern day Johnny Carson, Their Personalities are so similar.

Not even close. Colbert is the modern day Letterman, but he never shuts his mouth. I guess that's what the Tik Tok generation needs tho.

otter wrote:

This is how I see it. His entire show revolves around poking fun at Trump. He is good at it but you kind of know why he is going to say every night. I

If he wants to have a show past this month he is going to have to reinvent himself. Right now I find him to be boring. I’m not alone.

I don't watch his current show. I watched a little of the Colbert Report in the past.

I have seen his segments that have been shared on YouTube and that's probably how most people see him or any of the other late night hosts.

I can tell you that Trevor Noah got boring for me and I haven't kept up with the Daily Show.

As far as anyone having a show or content past this month, they will be following the post-presidency version of Trump for sure.

And there will be content to discuss.

And I think he will poke plenty of light-hearted fun of what Biden will be saying in the next four years.

And he will still poke fun at Fox News overreactions.

The shows will go on.

The Unkle wrote:

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White Israeli Jews are some of the most racist people on planet earth. It is too exhausting for U.S. Blacks to fight White Gentile racists and White Israeli racists simultaneously. Even more exhausting since many White Gentile racists often are in bed with White Israeli racists.

Black U.S. citizens ... wrote:

The Unkle wrote:

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White Israeli Jews are some of the most racist people on planet earth. It is too exhausting for U.S. Blacks to fight White Gentile racists and White Israeli racists simultaneously. Even more exhausting since many White Gentile racists often are in bed with White Israeli racists.

White Israeli Jews? That would be as opposed to all the black ones, then?

But how about comparing to the racist people on planet Mars?

And even more exhausting than too exhausting, huh? That must be tiring.

I can tell you're a great thinker. Tell us more.

America's fury wrote:

douglas burke wrote:

Colbert is just the modern day Johnny Carson, Their Personalities are so similar.

Not even close. Colbert is the modern day Letterman, but he never shuts his mouth. I guess that's what the Tik Tok generation needs tho.

Late night talk show hosts should shut their mouths? That's an interesting concept.

I would agree that he's not a naturally funny comic, (like maybe Billy Crystal or Jon Stewart) and he sometimes (much more over the past several years) oversteps into snide and now and then juvenile humor (making fun of names and people's looks.) I don't think though that your idea of him being "cynical, smarmy, or arrogant" are on the mark. Especially over the past few years there's been much to be critical about. His role is to be critical, but to evoke laughter and some relief from tension and tragedy. Of this former stuff he and all commentators in the media have been severely tested, comic or traditional, pundit or lampoonery.

I see him as a very smart, very literate and informed critic of the times using a bit of this and a bit of that in his comedy style, borrowing from every predecessor, from Steve Allen on. He is an amalgam of many comics and therefore tough to identify as a distinct personality.

So he is hard to categorize or to see as an individual "voice."

But make no mistake, he's not sinister, cynical, or mean-spirited. He's like the rest of us, who are trying to keep our spirits up, not let the would-be oligarchs, racists, and White Nationalists completely brainwash the nation.

Yeah, Mr. Colbert falls short of my idea of a really funny guy, but to call him mean nasty, and anything less than brilliant (have you noticed that all of his barbs and arrows are backed up with evidence and common sense?) would be to expose one's own shortcomings on seeing what's going on under and beyond what's being fed to us by the the actual cynical, smarmy phonies in government.