I’ll note that Colbert has the highest viewership (and therefore ad revenue) in his time slot. This is almost surely about the Ellison family, which now controls CBS, wanting to silence him.

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    a purely financial decision

    🤨 … riiiiiiiiight …

    Remember: even in the most repressive autocracies, the leaders realised that jesters serve a purpose. Because if people can’t joke about how shitty things are at the present, they might see that as a sign that things are pretty bad, actually.

    If the comedy is mucked with, that’s a sure sign that the politicians are getting a tad bit touchy.

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      They should just go crazy with Trump jokes now. If networks cancels the show earlier it will prove it was not for financial reasons. If it doesn’t they will have a great last season.

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        To be fair, I don’t know how much crazier they can go with Trump jokes than they were already…