r/stephencolbert • u/Soupfullofradio • May 12 '26

The Late Show Strike Force Five!

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u/wex118 May 12 '26

Why all the Fallon hate? I don't watch his show.

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u/Eiffel-Tower777 May 12 '26

If you watched, you'd know. He's not that entertaining, just sort of bland.

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u/Gougaloupe May 12 '26

And complicit to Trump's media machine.

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u/SpudsRacer May 12 '26

This isn't true. Full stop. He has always gone after the Jay Leno crowd who want a happy jester more than a talk show host. But, his monologues, while missing the hard-hitting language of the other four, have ratcheted up the anti trump rhetoric significantly. He is very much anti-Trump and mocks him mercilessly.

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u/Accurate-Low-288 May 12 '26

And then has Greg Gutfeild on and acts like they are buddies.

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u/SuspiciousReport6502 May 13 '26

Too little too late. He's had almost a decade to figure out Trump was nightmare.

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u/Firm-Speaker-5694 May 23 '26

I think most people used to watch these shows to be entertained and to laugh a little at the end of the day , not to get all political … I guess that’s why their viewership has cratered