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The Buck Sexton Show

Buck Brief - Colbert Weeps As Libs Destroy Late Night

The Buck Sexton Show

Premiere Networks

News, Government, Politics

4.74.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Late-night TV used to make America laugh. Now it lectures America every night. Buck breaks down the collapse of modern late-night comedy and why hosts like Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, and others turned once-iconic shows into partisan political theater. From the golden era of Johnny Carson and Jay Leno to today’s endless anti-Trump monologues, we examine how late-night television lost its audience, lost its purpose, and ultimately lost the culture. Why are ratings collapsing? Why are these shows getting canceled? And how did comedy become so painfully unfunny?

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:04.6

They finally did it.

0:06.1

The Libs destroyed late night comedy.

0:08.7

This has been a long time coming, as you know, and it's not a surprise to any of you

0:14.9

who have even tried to watch a few minutes for the last decade or so of Colbert's show,

0:23.4

Fallon Show, Kimmel's show.

0:28.0

There's others, too, but they're even lesser players and all this.

0:34.4

You know, it's on the one hand, it's great because these guys are getting their just desserts by getting canceled.

0:35.4

But on the other side, it's a shame. I grew up watching

0:39.2

Jay Leno for decades late night TV was this beautiful bipartisan escape. Johnny Carson made fun

0:46.8

of everybody. David Letterman, well, he's a jerk and a lib. So I never liked Letterman. But, you know,

0:53.9

Jay Leno was just funny. He would take a little

0:56.7

shot at both sides, but I watched a little bit of Leno growing up. But you could certainly

1:02.0

turn it on and expect that the primary purpose was comedy. But then the Lib TV execs handed the keys

1:10.1

to this new generation of late-night clowns.

1:12.7

But worst among clowns, they're not funny.

1:16.6

Stephen Colbert is the chief example of this.

1:19.1

He drove the whole thing off a cliff into a ditch of smug one-note trumped arrangement theater.

1:29.0

So as Colbert waves goodbye to the late show on May 21st, we get to watch the

1:33.0

farewell tour of a guy who didn't build anything. In fact, he was gifted a throne

1:37.9

and then he turned it into a participation trophy. Just showed up, did the bare bare minimum and let's start with that obvious

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