Those days are long, long gone.Late-night talk shows are now yet another vehicle for left-wing political activism.Hosts like Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, Jimmy Kimmel, John Oliver and Seth Meyers have all but abandoned any pretense of comedy in favor of yet another lecture on their ideological preferences.
As a result, despite outsized salaries, ratings have dropped dramatically, and these shows are less important than they've ever been.That led to the cancellation of "Late Night with Stephen Colbert" after years of losing money, with CBS saying they were losing $40 million a year to do a less entertaining version of an MSNBC show.Naturally, the few devoted left-wing viewers of the Colbert show were furious.
And that includes Jimmy Kimmel himself.Stephen Colbert hosts The Late Show with guests Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, John Oliver, and Seth Meyers during the May 11, 2026, episode in New York.(Scott Kowalchyk/CBS)DEMOCRATS FAWN OVER STEPHEN COLBERT FOR HOLDING 'TRUTH TO POWER' AFTER CBS CANCELS SHOWKimmel, in a new interview with Vulture, explained how "defeated" he felt when he heard that Colbert's show was being taken off the air."I feel a little bit defeated about it," he said in the interview.
"In a lot of ways, I feel like I’m looking at my own future."Kimmel, of course, blamed President Donald Trump for the show's cancellation, and cast doubt on CBS' statement that Colbert's show was losing a fortune.His proof? That in 2023, the New York Times reported that Colbert turned down a longer, five-year contract in favor of three.
To him, that implies the show wasn't losing money for the network."Am I to believe that over the course of those two years, they suddenly started losing $40 million a year?" he said."These are just made-up numbers."Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel speaks onstage during the Bloomberg Screentime event in Los Angeles, California, on Oct.
8.(Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg)As for Trump, Kimmel claims he feels "sorry" for the President of the Unite...