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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now it's seventeen w o rs Beat on the Street
with Natalie Migliore.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Finally we are rid of Stephen Colbert. The world is
a better place. But how do New Yorkers feel about it? Well,
that's what Natalie Mgliori asked them today in her Beat
on the Street.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Natalie, you're saying good morning, Larry. Wait, you're saying the
world is a better place. But my opening line was
some sad news for Late Night.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, it's not sad news.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
It's sad.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I'll tell you what. It's sad news that the Late
Night Show is going away. I'm sad about that for
David Letterman, who founded the show. I'm not sad that
Stephen Colbert is going away. You know, he was a
big trumpeting fool.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Well we're ditching, okay, we're ditching the opening line.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Now out the parent company of CBS and you know
the Late Night Show, The Late Show is making the
decision to end The Late Show.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
With Stephen Colbert. Lights at the Theater on fifty third
and Broadway will go dark come May twenty twenty six,
with Colbert telling audience members he's actually still grappling with
the decision since finding out on Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
That's sad, especially being from New York. You know, that's
something someone everyone will watch. Basically that's been here forever.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
So I don't understand what's going on.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Good because he was unfair.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
I think it's okay because he's like every other news has,
oh white man with nothing interesting to say.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Well, he's a comedian.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
No, he's like the want the glasses.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Yeah, I know, yeah, he talks about the news.
Speaker 6 (01:46):
Not he's not funny about it.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I'm gonna say.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
I mean, I didn't realize he was a comedian, so he.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Should have worked on it. That's maybe why the show ended. Yeah, yeah,
that girl stops short of saying he's not funny. I
realize now you can't hear the s when she went
to gonna say he's not funny. But that was our
little conversation. But that's maybe not the reason. Entire amount
cited financial concerns against a challenging backdrop It's changing time,
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saying it has nothing to do with the show's performance
or content, But it really begs the question, Larry, are
people watching late night TV anymore?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
No?
Speaker 5 (02:23):
I go to pa at eight thirty.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
But that's a shame.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
No, I have no sign, to be honest, so it's
the first time I hear about it.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
No, I don't watch any of those shows unless it's
somebody that I follow I really like, is like a
guest on it.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Other than I don't really watch it. But I do
not regularly, not as regular as I used to. But
I do old school stuff like that Johnny Carson, all
them old people. Yeah, like old school stuff.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Sell reruns. Yeah, reruns.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
I'll watch rerun stuff that I didn't get to see
that I want to see, Like, oh, I is interesting.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
So I'll watch it. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
He was tucking David Letterman, who actually guarded the Late Show,
and Jay Leno, who at the time was his competitor.
Now Powermount says it's going to end the Late Show entirely,
which means it's not going to look to replace Colbert.
Some are accusing powera amount of retaliating against Colbert after
he criticized the network for settling a sixteen million dollar
(03:19):
lawsuit with President Trump. These New Yorkers would maybe agree.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Hell, yeah, that's kind of obvious, which is really really
messed up. Yeah, he should sue if he can which
I'm sure he can. That's a drag because I love
Stephen Colbert and I'm gonna miss him, but I'm sure
he's going to pop up someplace else, so paramount.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I'm hoping it don't happen, but we're going to miss him.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Yeah, And even though people say they've heard about the
show ending, that was sort of a sample. I want
to say a sample sale No, but that was a
sort of a sample of people who were said, but
they're not so devastated. Everyone else, especially young people who
say they're not even watching TV, like any TV.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
I feel that people.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Were just watching more like Netflix and things like that.
So that's that's just the reason why.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
I haven't watched TV. And I don't even know how long.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
You know, everything's online YouTube and I might stream some things.
It's the times, right, like they're always looking for something newer, better,
I guess, I don't know. I hope it's you know,
the story for all of them. Well, a lot of
us do watch less TV everything. Everyone streams everything. It's
super competitive, so I it kind of sucks, you know,
because I'm probably part of the reason.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
You know, there you have the end of an error, Larry,
But you came on the air very happy about Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
No, I've been talking about it throughout the morning. I
know you're out working, but it's it's a great day
for America that Stephen Colbert is off the air. I
will tell you I was disappointed in him. I used
to love him on The Daily Show. I used to
think he was very funny on The Daily Show. And
even before that, they you know, he was doing improv.
He was just a funny man. But what he got
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on the show, and I'm sure David Letterman was disappointed
with what he was doing, because David Letterman never did this.
We never knew David Letterman's politics, but he made it
a political show, and he specifically kept going after Donald Trump.
And after a while, you're losing half your audience and
some of the stuff's just not funny.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
It's just like you know what, Larry.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
I was in bed by then anyway, because we get
up at the crack of bow before the sun comes up,
so I never even paid attention. So I'm tucking dead
by the time that guy even says alone to people,
I'm like whatever, But so.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
No good for you.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
And the ratings, by the way, for all of those
those shows except for Jimmy Fallon.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
Well, it's funny because you know, I asked my kids
about it, and I don't think they've ever seen the
show in real time. They'll see clips on TikTok and
that's it, and I'm sure that's where this kind of
late night world might be going.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
That's it is exactly where it's going. And Jimmy Fallon
was way ahead on that because he does little bits
that you can share and they pop up on Instagram
and they pop up everywhere. But Stephen Colbert, oh, so
sad to see you go, you know, don't. I hope
he doesn't arise anywhere else. I'm sure he's going to
probably will get his own show on MSNBC or CNN.
(06:21):
Oh no, no, they're cleaning house too. He might be
all done for wouldn't that be a wonderful day? Thanks
so much, Thanks so much, Natalie. Natalie is going to
be back Monday morning at eight point fifty