Stephen Colbert, the smug host of CBS’s “The Late Show,” is a classic example of why echo chambers are doomed to fail.

Colbert’s approach to late-night comedy was to offer snarky solace to his fellow progressives while hurling nightly insults at the tens of millions of Americans who don’t agree with his far-left politics.

Not surprisingly, that business model, designed to regularly tick off the 46% of Americans who identify as Republicans, eventually failed. 

Liberals have been in high dudgeon for months after CBS announced that it planned to cancel Colbert’s testament to self-indulgence, but the comedian has only himself – and the sycophants who surrounded him – to blame.

Stephen Colbert was a losing investment for CBS

In 2025, Colbert drew an average audience of only 2.5 million, a small fraction compared to the hundreds of millions of Americans who........

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