What went wrong with this guy? He used to be actually funny. Now 90% of his show is "orange man bad". I'm not saying he can't make fun of Trump but, fuck, at least the other talk show hosts have variety. Fallon plays dumb games with his guests, Kimmel has that fat Mexican guy and fucks around with Matt Damon, Conan has a sidekick too, etc. Even Oliver and Meyers and Noah talk about other things for half of their shows.
But Colbert? He is so obsessed he made a cartoon show about Trump in the White House... and it bombed, even with the liberal critics. Why did he become so low effort?
I'm pretty sure the problem is that he's highly restricted on what he's allowed to do or say because it's a "late night show" on a major network so the studio dictates that he must keep his material safe and bland enough that he can have as big of a boomer demographic as possible. On Comedy Central they didn't need to restrict his actions because they didn't need to worry about alienating anybody; viewers of the CC channel knew to expect more edgy and possibly offensive humor. Unfortunately, since it's a daily news type show he needs to cover current events, but pretty much the only thing he can talk about without possibly offending part of the userbase is making fun of trump. So, that's all he does.
Chase Turner
Because the only things he ever did of note were fooling idiots into thinking he was a conservative, and the WH Correspondents Dinner. He’s an actor, not a personality. Seriously, when he’s not doing his Trump voice I don’t remember a damn thing about his show, and I only remember that because of psychic pebbles breaking down his impersonation.
He makes a better sarcastic conservative than a sincere liberal.
Easton Parker
Colbert wasn't trying to fool people into thinking he's conservative. The entire point of his old show was that it was an obvious parody. There were some small number of idiots that didn't "get it" but that clearly wasn't the intention. Colbert Report was unironically pretty funny and entertaining. The Late Show is crap, though.
Matthew Edwards
I'm convinced that after years of pretending to be a retarded conservative, he's now pretending to be a retarded liberal.
Carson Peterson
I just find it hard to believe that, after however long he's been on the Late Show, he hasn't fully made it his own. I mean Letterman had that signature laugh of his. I wonder if Colbert was only funny on CC because he was playing a character.
