For years, late-night TV has drifted into the left-wing abyss, offering little more than boring, partisan monologues and the smirking condescension of hosts smugly winking to their like-minded coastal audiences. Nothing about these shows compelled viewers to stay up past the evening news, and certainly nothing justified the astronomical paychecks of their hosts.
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The decline of late night has become a major topic since the cancellation of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” which became a multimillion-dollar boondoggle for the network after decades of alienating half the country. CBS will pull the plug on Colbert in May 2026, and it seems likely that other late shows will follow suit.
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But it looks as if Jimmy Fallon and the bigwigs at NBC may have
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