Whereas Stephen Colbert has acquired loads of assist from fellow tv mainstays and late-night hosts following the unceremonious cancellation of The Late Present, Piers Morgan isn’t amongst them.
Earlier in the present day, the British media persona took to X to slam Colbert and different longtime late-night hosts, alleging these figures have been nothing greater than puppets for the Democratic Get together.
“That is so damning,” Morgan wrote alongside a canopy of New York Submit that outlined the political leanings of Colbert’s company, which skewed towards the left. “Most of America’s largest late-night hosts have turn out to be nothing greater than hyper-partisan activist hacks for the Democrats — a celebration that’s not often been extra unpopular. No surprise Colbert bought canned. Extra will observe.”
Morgan, who has alternately supported and critiqued president Donald Trump and doesn’t take into account himself right-wing, continued his commentary in a number of different tweets, starting with an endorsement of Jay Leno’s current feedback questioning why late-night hosts would “alienate” half their viewers by “cozying an excessive amount of to at least one aspect or the opposite.”
The host of YouTube’s Piers Morgan Uncensored continued in one other tweet, this time geared toward fellow U.Ok.-hailing peer John Oliver: “UPDATE: Simply watched a drooling @60Minutes phase tonight about John Oliver who was pleased with telling his viewers to not vote for Trump ultimately election. He instructed them to vote for Kamala Harris as an alternative. That’s not comedy, it’s partisan political activism.”
And, when responding to a tweet by political commentator and MSNBC contributor Brian Tyler Cohen, Morgan acknowledged, “Trump didn’t cancel Colbert… he cancelled himself with poor scores, large prices, and boring viewers with anti-Trump bias.”
Only a couple days after Stephen Colbert ripped into mother or father firm Paramount‘s $16 million settlement with president Donald Trump on the air — a transfer he likened to a “large fats bribe” aimed to grease the Federal Commerce Fee’s approval of a year-long pending merger between Paramount World and David Ellison’s Skydance Media — he revealed to audiences that CBS could be axing The Late Present, the franchise first begun by host David Letterman in 1993. Executives defended the cancellation, calling it “purely a monetary determination in opposition to a difficult backdrop in late night time” that “just isn’t associated in any solution to the present’s efficiency, content material or different issues occurring at Paramount.”
Since Colbert made the stunning revelation public July 17, Trump has vocally celebrated the present’s retiring, as a majority of the present’s writers represented by the Writers Guild of America have known as on New York State Legal professional Basic Letitia James to launch an investigation into “potential wrongdoing” at Paramount. This comes as plenty of Senate Democrats, like Adam Schiff and Elizabeth Warren, made statements defending constituents’ proper to know if the collection was canceled on account of political causes.
In further fallout, protesters gathered exterior the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York Metropolis the place Colbert tapes to push again in opposition to the choice. As for Colbert himself, he has made it clear that he won’t go mild into that good night time, telling Trump to “go f— himself.”
He added within the July 21 episode of his present, “However [CBS] made one mistake. They left me alive. Now for the subsequent 10 months, the gloves are off. I can lastly converse unvarnished fact to energy and say what I actually take into consideration Donald Trump. I don’t take care of him. Doesn’t have the skillset to be president.”
