Stephen Colbert’s lefty lunacy: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: The cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s “The Late Show,” which is understood for its anti-Trump humor.
Stephen Colbert’s restriction — or maybe elimination — of visitors from the proper, and his puerile attempt at humor is just not humorous (“The Left Show with Stephen Colbert,” July 27).
His monologues are a unhappy camouflage for his political agenda: unwarranted hatred for President Trump.
Ron Goldman
Brooklyn
Jay Leno is spot on when he says that late-night TV hosts are alienating half their audiences (“Leno’s ‘left’ jab at comics,” July 28).
Fewer people are watching to start with, and these overrated, overpaid clowns simply keep delivering the identical outdated liberal rubbish.
I consider the legacy media has simply as a lot to do with it because the buffoons. One can solely hope that different hosts apart from Colbert get canceled.
Rob Feuerstein
Staten Island
At the top of the day, Colbert turned a cult chief. He claims to be a religious Catholic, however he delivers a message of hate each night time.
He had each proper to pounce and make jokes about Trump, however when does it change into imply moderately than significant?
Life is hard enough nowadays; why incite people moderately than calm them and allow them to neglect concerning the world for an hour?
Dan Ricciardi
Brooklyn
Rather than persevering with to lose tens of millions on late-night speak reveals or canceling them completely, the mainstream networks ought to emulate the Greg Gutfeld model on Fox.
Place your host on a chair in a room surrounded by a number of like-minded panelists and allow them to riff on the information of the day for a half hour.
No cavernous theater that may seat a thousand sycophants; no multi-member band protected by union contracts; and, most of all, no visitors I’ve by no means heard of pushing films I don’t wish to see, songs I don’t wish to hear or books I don’t wish to learn.
Jim Vespe
Mamaroneck
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Only Colbert discovered his jokes about Trump humorous. It appears the one time the viewers laughed was when Colbert did one of his ridiculous dances and made a idiot of himself.
The critics could also be proper about Trump being chargeable for Colbert’s ouster. His viewers has been silenced and Trump has had the final snicker.
Nicholas Maffei
Yonkers
I watched Stephen Colbert’s “Late Show” for the primary time in a few years. He was not humorous, and the show was not entertaining. Maybe that’s the reason it’s being canceled.
Gilbert Schwartz
Aventura, Fla.
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The Issue: Wrestling icon Hulk Hogan’s death by cardiac arrest at age 71.
I admired Hulk Hogan and what he stood for (“Hulk had a ‘weak heart,’ ” July 26).
He was a wrestler, actor and showman with a coronary heart of gold. But more than that, Hogan was a true patriotic American, to not point out true MAGA all the best way.
He was a massive supporter of President Trump and on the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee he ripped off his shirt in true Hulk Hogan model.
He will really be missed. My prayers exit to his household, associates and all Hulksters in all places.
Frederick Bedell Jr.
Bellerose
We have misplaced one other American icon.
I’m sure tens of millions of younger youngsters really feel unhappiness like by no means earlier than. He advised all of them to at all times prepare, say your prayers and take your nutritional vitamins. He helped them to be the best they might ever be.
I’m constructive there’s a fitness center in heaven for him. He was a true hero.
Kim Cody
Whitestone
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