July 23, 2025 • 15 mins
Missing the days when late-night TV was all about laughter instead of political debates? With Stephen Colbert’s show ending in 2026, it’s clear the landscape is shifting. Business decisions—not conspiracies—drive these changes, as networks chase ratings and revenue. But, as usual, the Left is up in arms, screaming conspiracies and the end of free speech. Will the Left ever learn that we are just fed up with this nonsense. Maybe it’s time for late-night to get back to real comedy.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Stuart, you remember Johnny Carson, david Letterman,
those guys were funny, thoseguys were good, good for a few
laughs, paraded a bunch ofpeople out on their stage.
We laughed hard.
Carson was out for years andthen you had Dave and you had
(00:22):
others and it was funny and well, sometimes politics crept in
and you know, johnny Carson dida great Nixon at the time and
I'm dating myself here a lot.
It was a funny show that peoplelook forward to.
But unfortunately, stuart, whatends up happening is like
everything else.
(00:42):
You know, the entertainmentindustry can't help itself and
has to copy and replicate, andcopy and replicate, and it ended
up creating a bunch of theseshows that, over time, post Jay
Leno, post David Letterman,wasn't funny anymore, or only to
a certain sect of people,because from 2017 or 2016 to
(01:03):
2021, and then most recently,donald Trump was the only joke
that they could deliver, becausethere were no laughs, people
weren't watching, people weretired.
And most recently, the end ofthe Stephen Colbert show that is
now scheduled for May of 2026,stuart, not tomorrow, may of
(01:23):
2026.
It isn't not just funny, it'sridiculous of what the left has
treated this as potentially thedismantling of our constitution.
Welcome back everybody to theRent Network.
Stuart is finally back, thoughhis internet is working.
I'm David Solomon.
This is we Are the Rent Network, where every Monday, wednesday,
friday, noon Eastern, we dothis shit Absurdities of modern
(01:45):
life, ranting about stuff thatreally just makes no freaking
sense at times.
We are here.
We're very proud to say we'reunedited, uncensored, unfiltered
and totally unapologetic.
We enjoy doing this because welove to bring out the
stupidities that people aredealing with on a daily basis.
That you know what it's goingto make you go, what the basis.
(02:06):
That you know what it's gonnamake you go, what the.
So sit back, folks today,because we just want to show you
another degree of absurdity.
So, stewart, you know stephencolbert announced his show is
being canceled by cbs and I saidit may of 2026 and I get a
birthday present.
I get it for you.
And the comment was the onlyreason that Colbert is being
(02:29):
canceled is a politics.
Imagine that Stewart, a leftywoke talk show host, blaming
Trump for his show beingcanceled.
Stu, the left, gone crazy again.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Oh, boy, and you gave me an easy introduction.
Maybe some of you rememberprofit and losses.
Once upon a time a show went onTV based off of the commercials
that it was able to sell and itgot money based off of
viewership Seems ratherelementary that a business would
(03:11):
need to operate off of revenuebase.
Well, in a communist country,channels don't work off revenue
base, they work off propagandabase.
How much propaganda are wepiping into the population?
So you had a station like PBSthat was being funded by the US
(03:32):
government in its entirety,where it basically was a losing
operation promoting a specificmessage from a specific party.
Now, the late night show whichbegan in the 80s with David
Letterman and yes, davidLetterman was and still is left
(03:53):
of center.
However, he started this showas a funny kick-in-the-ass kind
of comedy run that eventuallyended up in the hands of Stephen
Colbert Stephen Colbert's, youknow.
Again.
David Letterman had everyone onhis show, from the monkey
(04:13):
trainer, lion trainer, becausewe all love the pets that he put
on, from his pencils that hetossed into the top of the
ceiling, to stars around theworld, dignitary stars, unique
personalities.
Well, stephen Colbert, the deafkid in one ear, literally was
(04:36):
incapable of bolstering anyoneof any substance to come on his
show.
And so, as a last ploy, ontrying to save himself and his
$40 million net loss run.
Now, net loss run doesn'tinclude all the expenses, that's
(04:57):
just the superficial ones thatwe are addressing, not the
production, not the pre, not thepost, but that show run at a
$40 million loss.
Now, I don't know about you,but what network can afford to
run a $40 million loss on onehour television when the host
(05:17):
can't get anyone to come up andshow on his stage except
politicians?
In fact, stephen Colbert hadmore politicians in his single
hour of television to almost anyother network except Fox News.
Believe it or not, stephenColbert beat CNN on politicians
(05:39):
on one-on-one interviews.
That is insane, if you thinkabout it.
Now Sunny Hostin is on the View.
She's ripping this apart as aconspiracy theory.
But you want to know somethingthe View may be next, because
what the left is starting torealize that are 1960 Democrats,
(06:00):
early 1970 Democrats is thatthese people are literally
taking the airwaves to apropaganda level seen only in
Russia, cuba, argentina, northKorea.
And you know what?
(06:21):
That slow pendulum that pushedover to one side.
Yes, you know what.
Maybe Donald Trump kicked CBS inthe nuts for doing something
that was wrong.
You know what.
They deserved it and you knowwhat.
Maybe the executives and theboard of directors said maybe we
(06:41):
got to put a sacrificial lambout there and Stephen Colbert
has a losing show.
You know, stephen Colbert,you're just a loser.
Pack it up, call it a day, finda job.
You got a year and May 2026,you just gave me CBS the best
birthday present almost that aman could ask for at age 55,
(07:03):
almost David Sonny Hostin.
I wish.
Wish is next with WhoopiGoldberg.
You know, those two are clownsand you know these people who
walk around as liberal elitists.
Here's what I'm proposing Iwant to take away their security
.
I want to take away theirpreferential treatment and treat
(07:27):
them like everyone else in thecountry.
They're just ordinary folkpeople.
They're there to entertain me,they're not there to give me the
news.
Well, actually I could say thenews.
Like CNN, msnbc have becomelike the late show, except David
Letterman, who had a little bitmore class, just seems to have
(07:50):
gone away.
The dodo birds.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
You know what, stuart , I got to tell you.
To me this is just a big joke.
But this is again the leftlosing its mind, and the left
continues to realize that peopledon't want to hear this.
Now, stephen Colbert, you'reright.
By the way, he used to have ashow on the Comedy Channel.
He was a pretend Republican andhe couldn't wait to get rid of
(08:15):
that show.
It was a paycheck and hepretended, but the night Obama
won, you saw his face, howecstatic he was.
You saw his true side and wegot it.
Okay, we got it.
But you know what, stuart, Igot to tell you something.
Here's the reality.
Okay, if I run a business and Ihave an employee and the
(08:36):
employee doesn't deliver what Ineed that employee to deliver, I
got to change the employee.
It doesn't make a freakingdifference whatsoever about
politics or about other things.
Now, is every show on CBS superprofitable, like, let's say,
the Super Bowl?
Heck, no.
And are you going to cancelshows like the Oscars, the Emmys
(08:59):
?
Probably not.
But you know, cbs, for example,lost the National Football
League for many, many years andthen they paid to get it back
because they realized it's howlucrative these are.
Business, moves, people,business.
And yet when the left doesn'tget what they want, they need to
find the reason, because itcan't be real, it can't be
(09:21):
logical, it has to be aconspiracy.
And when you see guys who gooff the rails for example,
former ESPN and MSNBC host KeithOlbermann is one of those
examples.
He went off the rail like sohard left, so hard woke.
They keep giving him amicrophone but he can't keep a
job because people tell himlisten, dude, if you don't
(09:44):
deliver and we need ratings, yousaid it Ratings brings
advertisers, which brings profityou don't deliver the ratings.
As a host, you don't have a job.
It's that freaking simple.
But not that the Lyft can't doit.
So Sunny Hostin, who you broughtup, has lost her mind because
(10:05):
she's concerned, it's political,it's political.
Every decision that doesn'twork for her is political.
She says if it's political,this is the dismantling of our
democracy, this is thedismantling of our constitution.
And she's looking for people toreally say to her yes, sonny,
you're right.
Because you're right, shethinks maybe, maybe she's next.
(10:28):
It's not about your politics,it's about ratings.
And if you want to continue tosay I am being accosted, now
listen Seth Meyers and all theseother ones.
You know, jimmy Kimmel, they'reall going.
Oh no, oh no.
And they all ran to his show.
The show is solidarity for himand show him that we're on your
(10:50):
side.
And this time the next thing.
Now, one of funniest thing thatsunny hostin said.
This is hilarious.
He's worried about it'sbothering the first amendment
and that it and it could youimagine, if, can, if freedom of
to speak truth to power, shegoes.
Listen to this.
Sorry, the first amendment, thefirst amendment for a and that
is a freedom of the press,freedom of speech, freedom to
(11:13):
speak truth to power.
If it is taken away, if thecomedians are being attacked,
then that means our Constitutionis being dismantled.
What did you do to anybody whomade fun of Biden?
What did you do when you madecomical remarks about the NOLF?
It's such a hypocrisy, it'ssuch nonsense.
You've gone crazy, lady.
(11:33):
You all have gone nuts.
You don't realize, you of all,I mean even senator warren and
bernie sanders.
They're all screaming.
And it's again.
It's the same lefty loser.
Hold on, whoa, whoa, whoa.
It's the same progressivelosers who are continuously
(11:54):
yelling the same crap.
And people are saying enough.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
But, david, you actually honed in on a point.
I called it communist media.
Called it communist media.
These politicians are used togetting their way because they
have people promoting theirideology and instead of it being
promoted by the people, it'sbeing promoted by these
(12:21):
politicians who are relying onthe networks in their
organization to promote thisinsanity.
And when you start removingthat freedom of being able to
use other people's money topromote your political agenda,
that's where their whole worldstarts caving in.
(12:43):
When the media starts showingwhat really is going on on the
planet, they lose.
You know, elizabeth Warren, thelittle Pocahontas, still has
never come to terms with thefact that she lied.
You know, mond're a band ofliars and losers that have no
(13:10):
other way except to allow amedia that supports them and
they support to survivesymbiotically.
It's the only way it exists.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
But you think about it from this perspective.
Ok, because I know you like topick on people.
I'm not picking on it, I'mgoing after the facts here.
Cbs made a business decision.
Now here's the thing whichpeople are not really paying
attention to.
If CBS really wanted to cutStephen Colbert, they would have
done it this fall.
They've cut shows.
Why are you going to throw awayanother 40?
(13:43):
Think about it.
Why would CBS throw awayanother $40 million to keep
Colbert on air?
Because that's what they'redoing here.
Right, they gave him a runwayto get off, but it wasn't good
enough, stuart.
Okay, colbert's job, his job, helost his job.
Maybe he'll have to go sellpencils on the street for all I
know.
But he lost his job and he'scrying.
(14:04):
When you lose your job, you gettwo weeks' notice.
You might just get fired.
He got how many months?
Come on, baby.
Stop with the whining, stopwith the crying, because once
again, you're showingprogressives on the left that if
you don't get what you want,stomp your feet, whine and cry.
It's a nonsensical story.
(14:24):
That, my friend, is where theradical left is taking America.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
I got a conspiracy.
You know, the view is a bunchof old maids rambling and on and
it's all women I think, I nowhave the new member of the view.
His name is stephen gobert well, anyways, I, I, whatever.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
ladies and gentlemen, that's it.
Stewart's played the musicagain.
Thanks for tuning in, folks.
We'll type again on Friday,please, please, please, click on
our links and join us on allour channels therentnetworkcom
YouTube channel.
We love you.
Catch you Friday.
Stuart, you remember Johnny Carson, david Letterman,
those guys were funny, thoseguys were good, good for a few
laughs, paraded a bunch ofpeople out on their stage.
We laughed hard.
Carson was out for years andthen you had Dave and you had
(00:22):
others and it was funny and well, sometimes politics crept in
and you know, johnny Carson dida great Nixon at the time and
I'm dating myself here a lot.
It was a funny show that peoplelook forward to.
But unfortunately, stuart, whatends up happening is like
everything else.
(00:42):
You know, the entertainmentindustry can't help itself and
has to copy and replicate, andcopy and replicate, and it ended
up creating a bunch of theseshows that, over time, post Jay
Leno, post David Letterman,wasn't funny anymore, or only to
a certain sect of people,because from 2017 or 2016 to
(01:03):
2021, and then most recently,donald Trump was the only joke
that they could deliver, becausethere were no laughs, people
weren't watching, people weretired.
And most recently, the end ofthe Stephen Colbert show that is
now scheduled for May of 2026,stuart, not tomorrow, may of
(01:23):
2026.
It isn't not just funny, it'sridiculous of what the left has
treated this as potentially thedismantling of our constitution.
Welcome back everybody to theRent Network.
Stuart is finally back, thoughhis internet is working.
I'm David Solomon.
This is we Are the Rent Network, where every Monday, wednesday,
friday, noon Eastern, we dothis shit Absurdities of modern
(01:45):
life, ranting about stuff thatreally just makes no freaking
sense at times.
We are here.
We're very proud to say we'reunedited, uncensored, unfiltered
and totally unapologetic.
We enjoy doing this because welove to bring out the
stupidities that people aredealing with on a daily basis.
That you know what it's goingto make you go, what the basis.
(02:06):
That you know what it's gonnamake you go, what the.
So sit back, folks today,because we just want to show you
another degree of absurdity.
So, stewart, you know stephencolbert announced his show is
being canceled by cbs and I saidit may of 2026 and I get a
birthday present.
I get it for you.
And the comment was the onlyreason that Colbert is being
(02:29):
canceled is a politics.
Imagine that Stewart, a leftywoke talk show host, blaming
Trump for his show beingcanceled.
Stu, the left, gone crazy again.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Oh, boy, and you gave me an easy introduction.
Maybe some of you rememberprofit and losses.
Once upon a time a show went onTV based off of the commercials
that it was able to sell and itgot money based off of
viewership Seems ratherelementary that a business would
(03:11):
need to operate off of revenuebase.
Well, in a communist country,channels don't work off revenue
base, they work off propagandabase.
How much propaganda are wepiping into the population?
So you had a station like PBSthat was being funded by the US
(03:32):
government in its entirety,where it basically was a losing
operation promoting a specificmessage from a specific party.
Now, the late night show whichbegan in the 80s with David
Letterman and yes, davidLetterman was and still is left
(03:53):
of center.
However, he started this showas a funny kick-in-the-ass kind
of comedy run that eventuallyended up in the hands of Stephen
Colbert Stephen Colbert's, youknow.
Again.
David Letterman had everyone onhis show, from the monkey
(04:13):
trainer, lion trainer, becausewe all love the pets that he put
on, from his pencils that hetossed into the top of the
ceiling, to stars around theworld, dignitary stars, unique
personalities.
Well, stephen Colbert, the deafkid in one ear, literally was
(04:36):
incapable of bolstering anyoneof any substance to come on his
show.
And so, as a last ploy, ontrying to save himself and his
$40 million net loss run.
Now, net loss run doesn'tinclude all the expenses, that's
(04:57):
just the superficial ones thatwe are addressing, not the
production, not the pre, not thepost, but that show run at a
$40 million loss.
Now, I don't know about you,but what network can afford to
run a $40 million loss on onehour television when the host
(05:17):
can't get anyone to come up andshow on his stage except
politicians?
In fact, stephen Colbert hadmore politicians in his single
hour of television to almost anyother network except Fox News.
Believe it or not, stephenColbert beat CNN on politicians
(05:39):
on one-on-one interviews.
That is insane, if you thinkabout it.
Now Sunny Hostin is on the View.
She's ripping this apart as aconspiracy theory.
But you want to know somethingthe View may be next, because
what the left is starting torealize that are 1960 Democrats,
(06:00):
early 1970 Democrats is thatthese people are literally
taking the airwaves to apropaganda level seen only in
Russia, cuba, argentina, northKorea.
And you know what?
(06:21):
That slow pendulum that pushedover to one side.
Yes, you know what.
Maybe Donald Trump kicked CBS inthe nuts for doing something
that was wrong.
You know what.
They deserved it and you knowwhat.
Maybe the executives and theboard of directors said maybe we
(06:41):
got to put a sacrificial lambout there and Stephen Colbert
has a losing show.
You know, stephen Colbert,you're just a loser.
Pack it up, call it a day, finda job.
You got a year and May 2026,you just gave me CBS the best
birthday present almost that aman could ask for at age 55,
(07:03):
almost David Sonny Hostin.
I wish.
Wish is next with WhoopiGoldberg.
You know, those two are clownsand you know these people who
walk around as liberal elitists.
Here's what I'm proposing Iwant to take away their security
.
I want to take away theirpreferential treatment and treat
(07:27):
them like everyone else in thecountry.
They're just ordinary folkpeople.
They're there to entertain me,they're not there to give me the
news.
Well, actually I could say thenews.
Like CNN, msnbc have becomelike the late show, except David
Letterman, who had a little bitmore class, just seems to have
(07:50):
gone away.
The dodo birds.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
You know what, stuart , I got to tell you.
To me this is just a big joke.
But this is again the leftlosing its mind, and the left
continues to realize that peopledon't want to hear this.
Now, stephen Colbert, you'reright.
By the way, he used to have ashow on the Comedy Channel.
He was a pretend Republican andhe couldn't wait to get rid of
(08:15):
that show.
It was a paycheck and hepretended, but the night Obama
won, you saw his face, howecstatic he was.
You saw his true side and wegot it.
Okay, we got it.
But you know what, stuart, Igot to tell you something.
Here's the reality.
Okay, if I run a business and Ihave an employee and the
(08:36):
employee doesn't deliver what Ineed that employee to deliver, I
got to change the employee.
It doesn't make a freakingdifference whatsoever about
politics or about other things.
Now, is every show on CBS superprofitable, like, let's say,
the Super Bowl?
Heck, no.
And are you going to cancelshows like the Oscars, the Emmys
(08:59):
?
Probably not.
But you know, cbs, for example,lost the National Football
League for many, many years andthen they paid to get it back
because they realized it's howlucrative these are.
Business, moves, people,business.
And yet when the left doesn'tget what they want, they need to
find the reason, because itcan't be real, it can't be
(09:21):
logical, it has to be aconspiracy.
And when you see guys who gooff the rails for example,
former ESPN and MSNBC host KeithOlbermann is one of those
examples.
He went off the rail like sohard left, so hard woke.
They keep giving him amicrophone but he can't keep a
job because people tell himlisten, dude, if you don't
(09:44):
deliver and we need ratings, yousaid it Ratings brings
advertisers, which brings profityou don't deliver the ratings.
As a host, you don't have a job.
It's that freaking simple.
But not that the Lyft can't doit.
So Sunny Hostin, who you broughtup, has lost her mind because
(10:05):
she's concerned, it's political,it's political.
Every decision that doesn'twork for her is political.
She says if it's political,this is the dismantling of our
democracy, this is thedismantling of our constitution.
And she's looking for people toreally say to her yes, sonny,
you're right.
Because you're right, shethinks maybe, maybe she's next.
(10:28):
It's not about your politics,it's about ratings.
And if you want to continue tosay I am being accosted, now
listen Seth Meyers and all theseother ones.
You know, jimmy Kimmel, they'reall going.
Oh no, oh no.
And they all ran to his show.
The show is solidarity for himand show him that we're on your
(10:50):
side.
And this time the next thing.
Now, one of funniest thing thatsunny hostin said.
This is hilarious.
He's worried about it'sbothering the first amendment
and that it and it could youimagine, if, can, if freedom of
to speak truth to power, shegoes.
Listen to this.
Sorry, the first amendment, thefirst amendment for a and that
is a freedom of the press,freedom of speech, freedom to
(11:13):
speak truth to power.
If it is taken away, if thecomedians are being attacked,
then that means our Constitutionis being dismantled.
What did you do to anybody whomade fun of Biden?
What did you do when you madecomical remarks about the NOLF?
It's such a hypocrisy, it'ssuch nonsense.
You've gone crazy, lady.
(11:33):
You all have gone nuts.
You don't realize, you of all,I mean even senator warren and
bernie sanders.
They're all screaming.
And it's again.
It's the same lefty loser.
Hold on, whoa, whoa, whoa.
It's the same progressivelosers who are continuously
(11:54):
yelling the same crap.
And people are saying enough.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
But, david, you actually honed in on a point.
I called it communist media.
Called it communist media.
These politicians are used togetting their way because they
have people promoting theirideology and instead of it being
promoted by the people, it'sbeing promoted by these
(12:21):
politicians who are relying onthe networks in their
organization to promote thisinsanity.
And when you start removingthat freedom of being able to
use other people's money topromote your political agenda,
that's where their whole worldstarts caving in.
(12:43):
When the media starts showingwhat really is going on on the
planet, they lose.
You know, elizabeth Warren, thelittle Pocahontas, still has
never come to terms with thefact that she lied.
You know, mond're a band ofliars and losers that have no
(13:10):
other way except to allow amedia that supports them and
they support to survivesymbiotically.
It's the only way it exists.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
But you think about it from this perspective.
Ok, because I know you like topick on people.
I'm not picking on it, I'mgoing after the facts here.
Cbs made a business decision.
Now here's the thing whichpeople are not really paying
attention to.
If CBS really wanted to cutStephen Colbert, they would have
done it this fall.
They've cut shows.
Why are you going to throw awayanother 40?
(13:43):
Think about it.
Why would CBS throw awayanother $40 million to keep
Colbert on air?
Because that's what they'redoing here.
Right, they gave him a runwayto get off, but it wasn't good
enough, stuart.
Okay, colbert's job, his job, helost his job.
Maybe he'll have to go sellpencils on the street for all I
know.
But he lost his job and he'scrying.
(14:04):
When you lose your job, you gettwo weeks' notice.
You might just get fired.
He got how many months?
Come on, baby.
Stop with the whining, stopwith the crying, because once
again, you're showingprogressives on the left that if
you don't get what you want,stomp your feet, whine and cry.
It's a nonsensical story.
(14:24):
That, my friend, is where theradical left is taking America.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
I got a conspiracy.
You know, the view is a bunchof old maids rambling and on and
it's all women I think, I nowhave the new member of the view.
His name is stephen gobert well, anyways, I, I, whatever.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
ladies and gentlemen, that's it.
Stewart's played the musicagain.
Thanks for tuning in, folks.
We'll type again on Friday,please, please, please, click on
our links and join us on allour channels therentnetworkcom
YouTube channel.
We love you.
Catch you Friday.
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