🎧 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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Well ... yeah -- what you say about late night shows in general rings true (it's been years since I've watched any of them) -- but we can't ignore the timing of CBS giving the axe to "The Late Show" just as Sherry Redstone was on her knees groveling before tRump, laying $16 million at his feet while begging him to allow the sale of Paramount to go through. We'll never know whether the famously thin-skinned tRump demanded the show be cancelled or if Ms. Redstone decided to sacrifice it as a goodwill gesture to assuage the tender ego of the Glorious Leader, but at this point it doesn't much matter.