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🎧 No One Knew How Johnny Carson Voted

Rob Long on what viewers do and don’t want before bed

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Stephen Colbert’s out, Greg Gutfeld’s in, and late-night TV is a shell of its former self. Rob Long breaks down what went wrong, why Johnny Carson wouldn’t survive 2025, and how Kimmel, Stewart, Meyers and Oliver turned late-night into political homework at bedtime — while fighting over the same half of the audience. But Rob doesn’t blame a certain president for the Late Show cancellation. He blames the thing that always forces showbiz’s hand: money.

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