{"id":15676,"date":"2025-07-18T09:29:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T16:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=15676"},"modified":"2025-07-18T09:31:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T16:31:41","slug":"a-blip-that-barely-registered-with-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2025\/07\/18\/a-blip-that-barely-registered-with-me\/","title":{"rendered":"A blip that barely registered with me…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"df411490-98de-11ee-95bb-0900ad5d0fe7_800_420-4005220073.jpeg\"Stephen Colbert\u2019s Late Show<\/em> has been cancelled.<\/p>\n

Under normal circumstances this would go un-noticed by me, and from his ratings, a shit ton of other people.<\/p>\n

But…<\/p>\n

Politicians in Washington D.C. decided to make a thing about it. Stephen Colbert\u2019s Late Show<\/em> was never funny to me. Colbert himself hasn\u2019t told a \u201cjoke\u201d for years that made me laugh. In my opinion, he\u2019s just not a funny guy.<\/p>\n

His ratings may suggest that I\u2019m not alone. Democrats in Congress jumped to criticize Paramount \/ CBS cancelling the show and are predictably trying to make it seem like Trump or his administration had something to do with it. Looking at you, Adam Schiff and Elizabeth Warren. (Can you say State Run Media? Of course that\u2019s what Schiff and Warren are claiming about the Trump administration isn\u2019t it?<\/em>)<\/p>\n

CBS says it\u2019s a business decision.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s possible these Senators watch The Late Show. It\u2019s also possible they like or find Colbert funny. Neither of them seem to have a sense of humor. It makes sense their taste in entertainment would be questionable.<\/p>\n

I miss the likes of Johnny Carson. He\u2019d make fun of everyone.<\/p>\n

Every time I\u2019ve tried to watch Colbert the \u201cjokes\u201d were at the expense of only one party. Or the jokes were pointedly aimed at people that were more conservative or in favor of common sense, and just came off as mean and hateful.<\/p>\n

Comedy in my opinion is something that can make people re-evaluate their positions or beliefs, and should do so by making everyone laugh. Even at themselves.<\/p>\n

The Comedian Jeff Foxworthy is a \u201cRedneck\u201d and famously makes a living poking fun at Rednecks with his \u201cYou might be a redneck if\u2026\u201d<\/em> line of questions. Yes, we all laughed, but he made rednecks think about having their new truck up on blocks in the front yard. He asked in a funny way where are your priorities, when you\u2019ve purchased a 60K vehicle but live in a leaky trailer and have to use an outhouse?<\/p>\n

Bill Engvall another comedian, asked funny questions about people and their behavior leading the listener down a common sense path, then underscored their beliefs inconsistency or hypocrisy with the punch line, \u201cHere\u2019s Your Sign”<\/em><\/p>\n

Ron White delivers scathing commentary with a smile and a jingle of ice in his scotch glass.<\/p>\n

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Ron White:<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are saying that I\u2019m an alcoholic, and that\u2019s not true, because I only drink when I work, and I\u2019m a workaholic.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019re all gay, it\u2019s just to what extent are you gay.\u201d<\/p>\n

He says, \u201cThat\u2019s bullshit, man, I ain\u2019t gay at all!\u201d I\u2019m like, \u201cYeah, you are and I\u2019ll prove it.\u201d He goes, \u201cFine, prove it.\u201d I\u2019m like, \u201cAll right, do you like porn?\u201d He says, \u201cYeah, I love porn, you know that.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019m, \u201cOh, you only watch two women together?\u201d He goes, \u201cNo, I\u2019ll watch a man and a woman making love.\u201d I said, \u201cOh, do you like the guy to have a tiny, half-flaccid penis?\u201d He said, \u201cNo, I like big, hard, throbbing co-\u201c<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"ScreenColbert on the other hand has focused on pretty much only the political arena with a decidedly anti-Republican, anti-Conservative, rhetoric. Even when one of these groups does something right, he\u2019s critical, mean, and pissy about it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Perhaps people are just tired of the nastiness. Perhaps CBS is reading the room and finally understanding that \u201cTrump Time\u201d 24\/7 is pass\u00e9. I suspect that a more fundamental truth is that corporate sponsors are trying to break from what has become seen as the loony left.<\/p>\n

Corporate sponsors and their advertising dollars are the only thing CBS is interested in. Corporations, no longer burdened by things like DEI, or the necessity to virtue signal with sponsorship of extreme leftist causes, are probably moving back toward the middle road.<\/p>\n

Anheuser-Busch learned the hard way that a significant part of America isn\u2019t interested in a cross dressing \u201cinfluencer\u2019s\u201d opinion, much less having that person as some kind of spokesperson.<\/p>\n

Puretalk Wireless is growing significantly by appealing to \u201cHard Working Americans\u201d who just want reasonable prices, and functional cell service. They\u2019ve recently partnered with Mike Rowe as their spokesman. (As an aside, they use the AT&T cell network and are significantly cheaper. Why pay AT&T, Verizon, or T-Mobile prices when you can get the same service for less? I\u2019ve seen zero difference in service since I switched about a year ago.<\/em>)<\/p>\n

People are starting to ask serious questions about what qualifies as \u201cMedical Care\u201d these days.\u00a0<\/p>\n

More people are thinking along these lines. If a child can\u2019t buy cigarettes, alcohol, or get a tattoo, require their parents permission to get their ears pierced, and this is so they don\u2019t make poor decisions that will affect them the rest of their lives, what about hormone treatments that disrupt their natural development?<\/p>\n

On demand abortions are billed as medical care, for whom? The mother? But what about the child. You know, the person that\u2019s being killed during the abortion, the child that can\u2019t buy cigarettes, get a tattoo, drink, or undergo hormone treatments?<\/p>\n

The dissonance within these \u201caccepted truths\u201d is fucking painful to process.<\/p>\n

Yet, we have almost constant trans this, trans that, demonstrations and assurances that grooming a 6 year old to be transitioned is \u201cLife Saving Medical Care\u201d. The suicide data doesn\u2019t appear to be backing up the claims.<\/p>\n

The medical profession burned their credibility down in recent years, much like Colbert has done by parroting a narrative and appearing to stand for nothing except doing as they were told.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Colbert may be another \u201cpersonality\u201d that ends up on the trash heap of discarded leftist bad ideas. His problem is that he\u2019s made a living being angry at anyone that questioned leftist ideas, and he\u2019s been at the forefront of virtue signaling.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I think Americans have grown tired of constant outrage performances and are starting to move more toward balance. I may be naive, but it\u2019s my hope at least.<\/p>\n

Colbert wasn\u2019t “reading the room\u201d. If he can change or more properly, come up with something new, prior to his last show in May 2026 Colbert might be able to save his career.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d say it\u2019s up in the air. He said some really nasty things about those who were vaccine hesitant. Now that more studies and data is coming out about side effects, and those people, he and others, said should be put in concentration camps<\/em> are being proved right, Colbert may have terminated his career the way Kathy Griffin did.<\/p>\n

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Why does the left always go to concentration camps? The fear mongers among the LGBTQIA2 blah blah community said, if Trump gets re-elected he\u2019s going to put all the LGBTQIA2 blah blah folks in Camps. The Leftists said put the unvaxed and vaccine hesitant into camps to die. Now they\u2019re saying Trump is going to put all migrants into camps. (Okay, that last one, I\u2019ll admit is a little close to home. On that, I have to ask was \u201cAlligator Alley\u201d the plan, or did it become necessity because judges and leftist Democrats found ways to obstruct deportations?)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

ABC is, I suspect considering cancelling The View <\/em>as well. The harridans on The View<\/em> refuse to consider the possibility that they could be cancelled, but I think the networks are waking up to a new reality…<\/p>\n

America is weary of “rage bait,\u201d and they\u2019re turning off their televisions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"GunsmokeAccording to the latest Nielsen streaming report, Gunsmoke<\/em> is one of the top 10 most-watched acquired series across all measured streaming services.<\/p>\n

What does that say about American\u2019s mood?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stephen Colbert\u2019s Late Show has been cancelled. Under normal circumstances this would go un-noticed by me, and from his ratings, a shit ton of other people. But… Politicians in Washington D.C. decided to make a thing about it. Stephen Colbert\u2019s Late Show was never funny to me. Colbert himself hasn\u2019t told a \u201cjoke\u201d for years … <\/p>\n

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