In the depths of the Covid pandemic, the West’s cultural overlords teamed up with our newly authoritarian governments to cajole, browbeat and manipulate audiences into supporting the wholesale theft of their liberties, from lockdowns to mask and vaccine mandates.
From that terrible time, Stephen Colbert will forever remain, in my humble opinion, the worst offender. I felt something akin to genuine horror when I watched his ‘Vax Scene’ sketches while the US government was pushing for mandatory vaccinations. In one sketch, channeling his inner Caesar Flickerman, the evil talk-show host from The Hunger Games, Colbert grimaces and shimmies, while a row of people in syringe costumes and medical gloves awkwardly dance around the stage. It was probably one of the most dystopian, propagandistic pieces of television content ever created. If there is a hell for bad entertainment, Colbert will be going there.
So when news broke last week that CBS’s long-running The Late Show would be closing up shop, and that Colbert, its final host, would be moving on, my first thought was: good riddance.
In an exquisite example of corporate doublespeak, Paramount Global, CBS’s parent company, sang Colbert’s praises as it fired him, saying he was ‘irreplaceable’. So much so that he is being booted off the air altogether.
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