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The colbert report was also freakishly amazing.. now he is not funny..

Jimmy Kimmel and Seth Meyers are currently the funniest on late night, but I think Steven Colbert still has it. He has a lot more space to work now that his persona doesn't require him to pretend to be conservative.

Mock conservative is way funnier than pious genuine liberal.

I found mocking blue-haired non-binary gender-fluid moralists way funnier. It would draw a really big audience, but you may not mock them - it's hate speech.

edit: speech not crime

Maybe you're just not as funny as you think you are.

Maybe NPC show is also not as funny, but the alternatives are being cancelled by butt-hurt moralists. This is sure true in Germany where "censored" would be the better word for it. I only know the big ones in the US and they were funny at some point, but the ones I saw all suffer from TDS by now. It's weird how people get so enraged by one person to the point they get silly and the silliness doesn't stop when the (media) presence goes away. It looks like a big hug box with a lot of copium junkies.

That's not funny and I don't need to be funny, but I feel like the people in this hug box should be made fun of.

Wow. TDS? You are a sad little person with sad little hangups about your dear leader.

I am German. If I'd make jokes about my dear leader I could face prison ;)

Your dear leader is the one you suppress speech about by labeling dissent as derangement.

Do you feel suppressed by me? You should also consult Wikipedia about "the leader" of the Germans.

I didn't label dissent as derangement and I even outlined (my) definition of TDS. You could easily apply it to other people than orange-utan and it isn't strictly limited to political affiliation either. However, nobody today embodies the baseless outrage triggering like the guy with the tiny hands. And let's face it, baseless outrage is also more often seen in one political movement today.

Some even say they are suppressed by challenging opinions ;)

Awww. Aren't you delusionally pathetic. I said you were trying to suppress dissent about your dear leader with your pathetic propaganda tactics. I didn't say you were successful. Your dear leader is a tool and you're a fool for parroting his propaganda. Run along now.

I don't like Olaf Scholz either; what's your point?

> I said you were trying to suppress dissent ...

No, you did not.

> No, you did not.

I get that reading comprehension isn't your thing. And living in denial is your thing. But that's just pathetic. Try again.

> Your dear leader is the one you suppress speech about by labeling dissent as derangement.

Where in that sentence is the "trying"? It's not even implied; it's just not there.

TDS really disables any rational thought.

There you go again. What a pathetic tool. I would say nice chatting, but it wasn't remotely. Have a nice day.

In another timeline, Conan kept the Tonight Show and is still doing it, instead of all of his podcasting stuff.

For me, he’s the funniest one since Letterman and probably actually funnier than Dave was.

Jimmy Kimmel is extremely funny; Seth Meyers is too nice to be super funny; Colbert is not very funny now, and a little too self-involved -- I think he will eventually end up on the wrong side of some future controversy.

Conan

Last I saw him (I don't bother anymore) he can have a few good off-the-cuff moments with guests typical of the usual late-show talking heads, but you just can't make talking to celebrities/actors that interesting on it's own. Unfortunately, that's the show.

CR had more going for it. Writers on a comedy network also have more balls. Maybe Colbert himself changed but I think he just molded into his role, which was inevitable.

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