>  MP> OTOH, if CBS cancelled the show because it was no longer financially
>  MP> feasible, then so be it and good ridance.  Considering that CBS could
>  MP> have just fired Colbert, kept the show, and replaced him with someone
>  MP> else, I am inclined to believe that the political/merger issue may have
>  MP> been a happy coincidence for them.

> I bet they're letting him stay on until his contract ends.  Probably
> cheaper than outright firing him.

That'd make sense.

>  MP> It wasn't that long ago that another Colbert backed talk show, starring
>  MP> Charlamagne the Great, was quickly "disappeared" by Comedy Central
>  MP> (another Paramount holding) after he interviewed Kamala Harris and
>  MP> didn't softball his questions... something that I suspect pissed off
>  MP> Colbert and the folks at Comedy Central.

> I'm sure it did.  Stpehen Colbert has always impressed me as a
> talentless hack, politics aside.

Yeah, he isn't that funny.


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