Late Night TV Hosts Gather for Stephen Colbert's 'Funeral'

Stephen Colbert hosted a funeral for his show last night, with his fellow late night hosts. It’s funny how some people live in a completely different world. None of these men have any influence on me whatsoever. I have no respect for them. They aren’t funny or entertaining to me.… pic.twitter.com/jAPlTCE4yQ

— Link Lauren (@itslinklauren) May 12, 2026

These people destroyed Late Night TV talk shows. Some destroyed storied franchises.

This was how NBC’s ‘Today’ covered on Tuesday the circlejerk between Colbert, Kimmel, Fallon, Meyers, and Oliver, gushing it’s “such a great show...filled with countless jokes, endless laughs” celebrating Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ as having been a home for “a mix of celebrity… pic.twitter.com/BqSGpBEIUb

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) May 12, 2026

As Stephen Colbert counts down to his "Late Show" farewell on May 21, he brought together the ultimate late‑night crew — Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, and John Oliver — for one memorable episode. pic.twitter.com/d97hVchHah

— ABC News (@ABC) May 12, 2026

Jimmy Fallon is going dark on the night of Stephen Colbert’s final "Late Show" and will air a rerun of "The Tonight Show."

Fallon joins Jimmy Kimmel in this showing of late-night solidarity, as ABC previously confirmed that “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” would be bowing out to give “The… pic.twitter.com/lRUkBFa9V2

— Variety (@Variety) May 12, 2026

All these hosts and their shows are completely irrelevant to me.

I watch one late night TV comedy/talk show -- Gutfeld!

'The View' Announces All-New Cast Of Angry, Middle-Aged Women https://t.co/uay1ttMTnY pic.twitter.com/hk6jok7wsQ

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) May 12, 2026

Jake Tapper, Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel - Gaslighters

It was just released that Google was pressured by the Biden administration to remove YouTube accounts.

But go off @jaketapper https://t.co/KQKDUbBBQx

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) September 23, 2025

Trump on Kimmel's Cancellation

"Great News for America: The ratings challenged Jimmy Kimmel Show is CANCELLED. Congratulations to @ABC for finally having the courage to do what had to be done..." - President Donald J. Trump pic.twitter.com/Vhj6DQSssu

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) September 18, 2025

Greg Gutfeld is King of Late Night.

Trump was right again.

Kimmel was next. pic.twitter.com/klbcrSs1NA

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) September 17, 2025

Jay Leno Criticizes Current Late Night 'Comedy'

Jay Leno criticizes modern late-night comedy for alienating half the audience with partisan politics https://t.co/3dLPKRu3VA pic.twitter.com/Qsv64Omu9y

— New York Post (@nypost) July 27, 2025

I was a loyal late night TV viewer for decades. It was a dramatic change for me to turn off late night TV, which I did early in President Trump's first term.

I watched late night shows to laugh and relax. When they no longer did that for me, I left. Like millions of other people, enjoying late night TV is a memory.

Late Night Hosts at Colbert's Show

Late night TV hosts Jimmy Fallon, John Oliver, Seth Meyers and Jon Stewart all showed up to Stephen Colbert’s show tonight to show solidarity after CBS cancelled it. pic.twitter.com/WgtBPxqk2u

— Pop Base (@PopBase) July 22, 2025

Stephen Colbert is really milking this cancellation.

This gathering of hosts serves as a reminder of how they've destroyed late night TV.

Late Night Comedy Shows Target Trump 98% of the Time

No joke!

Read more: https://t.co/iMxN4quzx7 pic.twitter.com/MPgAJb7N0v

— Media Research Center (@theMRC) October 30, 2024

This is why their ratings have tanked. They've alienated more than half the country.

This is why Gutfeld! is the king of late night.

Roseanne Barr on Biden's D-Day Posture

Roseanne Barr reacts to the viral video of Joe Biden awkwardly crouching on stage on D-Day: “He’s definitely pooping.. he looks like all the grandkids. They try to hide it because they don’t want to get potty trained — Jill’s holding her nose”🤣 pic.twitter.com/lX1iDgGlmX

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) June 6, 2024

Will all the late night talk show hosts comment on the video of Biden's strange movement on stage on D-Day?

Ignoring this a dereliction of comedic duty.

Jesse Watters: Biden's Embarrassing Late Night Performance

Despite Biden's ice cream stunt and embarrassing sunglass gags, he flopped Seth Meyers' softball interview. He lost his train of thought multiple times, plagiarized a Trump hoax, and couldn't name his agenda. Now, even Obama world is saying no to Joe. pic.twitter.com/YmJARX7mZV

— Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) February 28, 2024

Biden's Ice Cream Ploy

The image of Biden wearing a suit, eating an ice cream cone, talking about Israel, Hamas, and Gaza is ridiculous. He looks like a weirdo. Seth Meyers, Biden's ice cream buddy, looks like an idiot as well. The outing to the ice cream shop is so staged and awkward.

I suppose Team Biden wanted to conjure up an image of good ol' Uncle Joe, but it looks like a promotional video for a memory care facility.

Doddering Biden slobbers on an ice cream cone while talking about a ceasefire in the Middle East. Inappropriate.

Biden's Sad Late Night Appearance

Late Night With Seth Meyers celebrated its 10th anniversary last night.

That's hard to believe. It's already been 10 years that I've spent not watching Seth Meyers. Time flies.

From clips I've seen of Biden's appearance on the show, the interview was uncomfortable at best, with Meyers and the audience pretending to ignore the Big Guy's decline.

Biden loses his train of thought after ⁦@sethmeyers⁩ asks how Americans can be assured he’s not too old for another 4 years pic.twitter.com/erYeNBXE7l

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) February 27, 2024

BIDEN (malfunctioning): “I was asked by Xi Jinping when I was in the Tibetan mountains with him…” pic.twitter.com/3PslrTBIkF

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) February 27, 2024

BIDEN: “My 2020 agenda is to finish the job” pic.twitter.com/HylzgezMRx

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) February 27, 2024

Late Night Show Political Jokes

Watchdog finds 81% of all political late night show jokes in 2023 targeted conservatives https://t.co/ov146x6Jpj pic.twitter.com/FHvEmYHZYG

— New York Post (@nypost) January 7, 2024

Not funny. Not entertaining. Garbage.

Five Late Night Hosts Podcast - 'Strike Force Five'

5 Late Night Hosts Combine Forces In Vain Attempt To Produce A Single Funny Joke https://t.co/fDLM8yWSsS pic.twitter.com/dL5NGgIPRj

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) August 31, 2023

No, thank you.

Why I Don't Watch Late Night 'Comedy' Shows

STUDY: Five Months Of Late Night: 93 Liberal Guests, 1 Conservative https://t.co/gAQPowF020

— NewsBusters (@newsbusters) February 7, 2023

I watch Gutfeld!

It's smart, fun, and entertaining.

No wonder Gutfeld! trounces Colbert, Kimmel, and Fallon, etc.

Greg Gutfeld - King of Late Night

🧚‍♀️ pic.twitter.com/k6jw1gr9Ut

— GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) November 9, 2021

A cable show is beating network programming, crushing the competition.

The established late night shows, on TV forever, all morphed into the same thing. They're joyless, Democrat propaganda mills.

Gutfeld! has the advantage of being different. It's entertaining, funny, and overall enjoyable.

Gutfeld! Beats ALL Late Night Shows on 'Climate Night'

'Gutfeld!' beats all late-night shows on their widely hyped 'Climate Night'https://t.co/rXuQoD2dQ9

— Fox News (@FoxNews) September 24, 2021

Late night shows should be entertaining. I need laughs at the end of day, not lectures and whiny political lectures.

Gutfeld! - April 5

Fox News' late-night program 'Gutfeld!' to kick off on April 5https://t.co/wPsxo8oyit

— Greg Gutfeld Show (@GregGutfeldShow) March 10, 2021

Fox News announces its new late-night program 'Gutfeld!' will start on April 5, airing weekdays at 11pm/ET.
• @greggutfeld will also continue as co-host of ‘The Five’.
• ‘The Greg Gutfeld Show’ will air its final episode on Saturday.https://t.co/eEcQv6G1ZS

— TV News HQ (@TVNewsHQ) March 10, 2021

This is great.

Late night TV on weekdays will have humor restored.

It has been a wasteland for years. One by one, late night shows became unwatchable if you weren't onboard the Democrat/Leftist train.

Finally, half the country will have the option of watching a topical, humorous take on the day's events that doesn't demean, insult, and alienate us.

Seth Meyers Killed 'Late NIght'

I watched Late Night with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.

That's decades of NBC TV late night viewing. That habit came to a screeching halt when Seth Meyers took over the program.

Especially at the end of the day, I need to be entertained, not ridiculed, not called stupid, deplorable, racist, etc.

Late night “comedy.” https://t.co/c99J8XxHt7

— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) May 14, 2019

I wouldn't watch any late night talk show now if you paid me.

Well, maybe if you paid me a lot I would. But that's not happening.

Gutfeld Monologue: Seth Meyers

WATCH: Greg's latest monologue. #Gutfeld pic.twitter.com/kjORFVyB5K

— Greg Gutfeld Show (@GregGutfeldShow) May 12, 2019

Greg Gutfeld is smart and funny.

Seth Meyers is not smart and not funny.

Seth Meyers, Late Night TV, and Trump

Really #latenightseth?https://t.co/DElV5ajIrU

— Conservative Review (@CR) June 23, 2018

From Brent Bozell and Tim Graham, Conservative Review:

CNN host Van Jones, a former Obama White House aide, interviewed NBC late-night host Seth Meyers with the usual reverence that liberals offer to comedians of the Resistance. “You’re an icon. You’re a legend,” Jones gushed. “You’re doing a phenomenal service to the country.”

But the best comedy in this interview came when Jones asked about the jesters lining up against President Trump. “You are really tough on him. A lot of the late-night folks are really tough on him,” Jones acknowledged. “Do you feel that the red-state folks have a legitimate complaint when they say all these late-night guys are just a, you know, attack squad against the president and there’s no diversity there when it comes to ideological diversity or fairness?”

Next he’ll wonder if CNN has an issue with Trump, too.

Meyers started with a who-needs-ratings answer: “Look. I can understand that they don’t like it. And I certainly respect their opinion to choose not to watch.” In other words, this show isn’t really performed for anyone other than disgruntled liberals who think they’re living in hell.

Then came the line that makes you reach for a drug test: “With that said, most comedians are pretty consistent in calling out hypocrisy and lying. I don’t think, you know, we don’t every day just say, ‘Hey, we got to attack Donald Trump. What is there?’ It’s the opposite. The thing comes first, and then we realize in order to talk about it is to, in some degree, to attack Donald Trump.”

“[M]ost comedians are pretty consistent” on hypocrisy and lying? Does anyone remember the comedians hammering Hillary Clinton when she lied or demonstrated hypocrisy? What we remember is comedians rolling out the red carpet to honor her. Women at Comedy Central nearly fainted in her presence as she winked at them.

This paragraph is noteworthy:

In the February 2013 issue of GQ magazine, Meyers nominated Hillary Clinton for the GQ “100 Hottest Women of the 21st Century.” He told the magazine: “I think somebody who is getting sexier every year is Hillary Clinton. Every year she seems better at whatever she’s doing.”

That's the funniest thing Meyers has ever said!

The conclusion:

When Jones asked how he can still “find the funny,” Meyers was more honest about his personal Resistance: “If you can point out how insane it all is, I think that helps keep you sane and keeps bringing you back. … If you take a few days off criticizing what the president does, I feel like maybe that means he wins, and I don’t want somebody to be so abnormal and have them win by us ignoring it.”

Trump. Must. Lose. That is the late-night “comedy” rule. That’s the only consistency.

Bozell and Graham nail it.

I watched NBC's Late Night with David Letterman, and Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.

For decades, I watched NBC's Late Night.

Then, Seth Meyers took over as host. I couldn't watch anymore. It wasn't entertaining. So, I broke a decades-old habit and left NBC.

For decades, I watched NBC's Tonight Show. I watched Johnny Carson and Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien and Jay Leno and Jimmy Fallon host the show.

For the past two weeks, I turned off Fallon as well.

It's not like it used to be. There are so many options now when it comes to entertainment. I can pretty much watch anything I want whenever I want.

Why would I watch a program that routinely insults me?

I won't.

Tammy Baldwin and Seth Meyers

Sen. Tammy Baldwin will be a guest on Late Night with Seth Meyers tonight.

Funny that she's on that show when she is so rarely heard from in Wisconsin media.

NBC is certainly pushing its "Defeat Trump" agenda.