Jason Shubnell

“Set me on a silver sun, for I know that I'm free; Show me that I'm everywhere, and get me home for tea” My cousin Jeremy, 44, passed away this month just two years after being diagnosed with ALS. People as pure as he was don’t deserve this. als.org

"Forget Pure Michigan. Welcome to Poor Michigan. Here, in a single generation, an enviable cornerstone of the industrial heartland afflicted by the "purple-state curse" squandered its leadership amid partisan wrangling, policy ping-ponging and good ol' fashioned hubris. The result: Confused business leadership, discouraged job-creating investment and too many kids left poorly educated." detroitnews.com/story/opinion/…

"He tried to win Democrats without sounding like one. He tried to win Republicans without Trump’s blessing. He tried to win unions while carrying the baggage of DMC and his ties to corporate donors... He tried to sell Detroit’s comeback while scandals over contaminated dirt, water shutoffs, overassessments, and downtown-focused development weighed down his campaign." metrotimes.com/news/politics-…

Hogan and Rodman were taking so long to get to the ring at Bash at the Beach 98, the TV time rights to Voodoo Child ran out and they had to start playing the nWo theme.

@TonyKhan Been here since day one. Thanks for existing.

Thank you all who watch AEW! This weekend is the 7-year anniversary of the first ever AEW show: Double or Nothing! Tonight’s show is SOLD OUT in New York! Don’t miss the 8th annual edition of #AEWDoN on ppv TONIGHT!

Oh sorry Zoomers, you don’t like girl bosses and drinking culture? We’re putting them both together and you won’t even be able to escape this millennial nightmare at a Cleveland Cavaliers game

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.

@CoreyWriting @DanFriedman81 Doesn’t he also air 90 minutes earlier in the night?

@DanFriedman81 Gutfeld far outperforms these guys and has a much smaller staff. I think the future of Late Night talk shows will be transitioning to much smaller-scale sets and staff, or they will become podcasts.

The budget for “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” was $100 million per year. It had a full time staff of 200 people, and was reaching just 2.7 million viewers on an average night during the show’s final quarter on the air. Colbert was the most-watched late night host. Jimmy Kimmel has a linear audience of 2 million, while Jimmy Fallon draws about 1.3 million. Jon Stewart on The Daily Show reaches 900k to 1 million, which more than doubles the 400k that watched when Trevor Noah was the host. Kimmel earns $16 million, Fallon earns $16 million, and Stewart makes $25 million. They had to pay him that to salvage the show after Noah, who was earning $16 million per year, lost more than two-thirds of his audience. None of the math for any of these shows works.

The tragedy of Stephen Colbert is that he really is a brilliant comedic talent and—according to those who know him in real life—a kind and thoroughly decent man. He could have maintained his liberal political beliefs while ring-fencing them from the Late Show and no one would have cared. Instead, though, he sold out, electing to become little more than a regime-media court jester, a funny man’s Rachel Maddow. He chose pandering to an actuarially decaying audience of geriatric shitlibs over remaining funny to a broad and politically inclusive audience, and he ultimately paid the price through declining relevance, reduced ratings. and decimated advertising revenue. It would be tragic, if it weren’t so completely well deserved.

The networks have been losing huge amounts of money keeping these late night variety shows running because no executive wants to be the bean counter who killed “The Tonight Show.” But it makes no sense for this to exist in the contemporary media landscape. This format was invented in an era when there were four over-the-air television channels and nothing else to watch. If you turned on the TV at 11:30, this was what you watched because it was all that was on. Now that you have everything streaming, why on earth would you watch this? In an era of YouTube, why would you sit through an entire hour of mostly filler when there will be a 90 second clip of anything interesting that might have happened on the show? 200 people worked on this. It occupied a giant theater on top of some of the world’s most expensive Manhattan real estate. Colbert was paid a $15 million salary. And the network was losing $40 million a year keeping this lumbering behemoth going. This should be a podcast with a staff of about 10. And I am sure that is what it is about to become.

Colbert was again guest host of Only In Monroe yesterday. Jack White was the guest! youtube.com/watch?v=jJTXB5…

Gaylord MI

"i have lived in bedstuy for 12 years" wowww really? since 2014? did you know biggie???

I've seen a handful of reports and headlines saying that the new ARMA bitcoin reserve bill will have the US buying 1 million bitcoin over the next five years. I got a draft copy of the bill from Begich's offices, and it doesn't say that anywhere. Word is the official text will drop sometime next week, so let's wait and see. Here's what we know so far 👇

Healthy dose of these this season and the Lions can reclaim their place as a Top 8 uniform wardrobe. But I won't hold my breath.

The Razor Ramon Rule

There are days when I miss being an editor and I particularly loved writing headlines. Whoever did this, I hope they took the rest of the day off.

@brianstelter What point are you trying to prove here?

Colbert notably did not mention Trump at all during Thursday’s finale. Nor did he dwell on the symbolism of his show being taken off the air... cnn.com/2026/05/22/med…

We checked – there was not a single mention of Trump's name during Colbert's final episode of "The Late Show."

"Bring Back Stephen Colbert." I made this video showing why The Late Show Failed. Using Stephen Colbert's own words. The primary reason is that the real Stephen Colbert is a coward. He says that himself. When he was doing sketch comedy playing a nauseated waiter, or hiding behind his overly confident Colbert Report character he had no reason to be afraid. He was never playing himself. He was fearless. Or at least the character he played was. But when he got behind David Letterman's desk he had to be himself. He couldn't hide. And this is where America lost one of the greatest satirist of our day. He originally said he liked Donald Trump. But during COVID under the fear and pressure of personal reputation and network pressure he chose to go with the crowd and get the cheap laughter. This is often called "Clapter." He originally questioned Big Pharma. Then fully embraced the vaccines. He originally said that he used the news too just to educate people to understand the punchline, but then the politics began to take over the comedy writing. I want the old Stephen Colbert back. The guy that was fearless and didn't think about what others thought of him. The Stephen Colbert who would talk theology with NT Wright, nerd out on Tolkien and create a real life SuperPAC to show the influence on political lobbying on politics. Then run for the President in South Carolina with the money. This was the Stephen Colbert we remember and mourn today as The Late Show comes to a final end. The late night comedy genre didn't die. It was murdered by political pressure, and a host that surrendered. But I still believe that Stephen Colbert we all remember is in there. And if he can just recognize his weakness, I think he could recover what he lost.

What you don’t know is that she is a critically-acclaimed musician from Pakistan’s elite social classes with a Grammy and more wealth and assets than any white or Black regular in Bed-Stuy (local or transplant). These divisive, reductionist takes come easy to elites for a reason.

Colbert became the arrogant narcissist character that he brilliantly parodied to begin his career. The story is, in the end, a tragedy.