Stephen Colbert's obsessive fixation with Donald Trump

[quote]I can't even watch Colbert's show anymore because it consists of 90% Trump talking points.

Like Datalounge, you mean. Pro- or anti-, I do not fucking want to hear about Trump AT ALL. And Muriel is shutting down everything that isn't either politics or ass.

Stephen is a genius and probably the funniest man on television. He skewers Trump better than anyone, with truthful, right on point commentary. Sorry you don't approve.

Colbert is ugly and there's something creepy about him.

He's a practicing Catholic, so he has to overcompensate in order to keep his job. Only reason he didn't get booted years ago.

How about...oh, I don't know.....not watch him?

His ratings increased when he became more political in the Trump era, and Fallon's ratings fell when he refused to go after Trump.

I wonder what all these shows will do when Trump is gone. The View; MSNBC; the talk shows; comedy shows... it's 24/7 Trump.

I wonder what will happen to Datalounge when Trump is gone.

Jesus, look at DL. All Trump all the time. Even a thread about cooking pasta turns into a rant on Trump. It’s getting real old.

Colbert has never ever been funny. His Fox News shtick wasn’t funny and he is even worse now. He has always been a smug, arrogant douche.

Don't worry, R8 -- Datalounge will endure.

Colbert has jumped the shark. He isnt funny anymore.

Trump Derangement Syndrome. It's real.

R13 Kathy Griffin has turned into her Seinfeld character.

Waiting for the Colbert #metoo scandal!

I get what OP is saying, sick of hearing and reading about the orange fuckwit myself.

What did Fox News do when Obama was no longer president? They continue to spew lie after lie and they never were funny.

Colbert's Trump monologues are hilarious, beautifully written and delivered.

All of the late night TV hosts go after Trump but no one does it as well as Colbert.

After watching his monologue and following comic segment (mostly his very funny "Meanwhile" bit, usually not centered around Trump BTW), I switch to Jimmy Kimmel.

I don't care for Colbert's interviews. He just doesn't have the bite and snark that Kimmel has with guests.

[quote]He has always been a smug, arrogant douche.

You're very wrong about that. His problem with guests is that he's too much of a nice guy.

Colbert was hilarious on Strangers with Candy and his character on The Colbert Report was great. I do not care for his late night talk show. It's too obvious.

Troll thread trolls.

Uh yeah. It's obviously a late night talk show.

It's the Russians R19

I stopped watching Colbert a while ago because I was just tired of it. I realized that it wasn't that he wasn't funny but I was so sick about hearing about Trump and nothing about Trump any longer seemed funny. But I think I just needed a break. I caught his live show after the debates and I was crying from laughing so hard. Have watched a few times since and there has been some stuff to laugh about.

I think we are just Trump weary......

Ditto Ari Melber, Rachel Maddow, Chris Matthews, Chris Cuomo, Don Lemon etc. etc. etc. What will these losers do for material after Trump is gone? They’re all all Trump all the time. Fucking obsessed and it’s way past old.

You trolls crying "it's the Russians!" are so boring. OP said he doesn't like Trump. He's just sick of Colbert beating the topic to death. It's lost its lustre at this point.

Hating Trump and calling him out is still important. They just need to find a new way to do it. The Daily Show was a new approach twenty years ago. I got sick of John Stewart real fast, but a John Stewart is needed now. We need something subversive that would keep our attention. All outrage all the time is not sustainable over the long term.

I am tired of Ari Melber's schticks but like watching him because of that perfectly handsome Jewish face.

American democracy is collapsing in front of our eyes. The United States has been taken over by a multinational organized crime syndicate. A mentally ill sexual predator in the early stages of dementia has control of the world's largest nuclear arsenal.

Sorry if that's boring you, doll. Stick to Youtube makeup tutorials.

We're ALL tired of it, OP. And what R1 said as well.

I'm sorry OP. I thought the looming destruction of our democracy was an important topic.

Hes definitely fuckable r26.

He's sticking with what works for him. Making fun of conservative politics has been his shtick for like 15 years and Trump is the conservative in chief.

Trump is signaling the end of America as a superpower, just like the end days of the Roman Empire when circus and bread became very popular, the same is happening today. What a time to be alive to be able to witness this change.

Oh great r31 because nobody else in Hollywood was doing that.

I wouldn't call it an obsession, but Colbert is profoundly unfunny on CBS.

The genius of his Comedy Central character is how it deftly poked fun at many ludicrous situations.

[quote] I thought the looming destruction of our democracy was an important topic.

Which we hear about on literally every other fucking channel in the entire fucking universe.

I thought evening talk shows were supposed to entertain and relax people. Shrieking about things that horrify us all is not what I would consider "relaxing."

It’s the ‘Trump Outrage Of The Day!” every fucking day on CNN and MSNBC. Like there’s nothing else happening in the world besides Trump, Trump and TRUMP.

Assholes.

I think it's weird that he does the voice.

How old are you, OP? Not trying to insult you at all. I wonder if my theory is correct.

Anyway, Trump is SUCH an outrage, on SUCH a large scale that, yes, Colbert (or anyone) is justified to go on and on about him. As an older person, I know how absolutely INSANE and ABSURD what Trump does every minute of the day is. I wonder if younger people, with not as much to compare it to, feel the same way.

Have his numbers gone up or down lately?

[quote] I wonder if younger people, with not as much to compare it to, feel the same way.

No we don't, gramps.

I actually avoid national news like the plague but I do enjoy how Colbert sums up the day nicely.

He brings forth all the ridiculousness of the day and makes me laugh at the absurdity of it all.

Op, he was 3rd in the rankings, behind Kimmel and Fallon, before Trump. Now he is first.

r35, Colbert was always political. His show before it he played a conservative character. He's not going to get an earlier time slot and not go political. If there was no Trump he would go on endlessly about Congress, Clintons and who ever was running in the Republican primary. He just might not be doing so well in the ratings.

R35, here's a thought ... watch something else.

R44 Here's a thought.....stop policing other people's opinions.

How was I "policing" your opinion? Did I tell you to shut the fuck up? No, I didn't. I suggested you stop watching something that you clearly don't enjoy and watch something else. To me that seems incredibly obvious. Unless of course, you're just posting to bitch about somebody who doesn't like Trump.

The show is nominated for 10 Emmys

Who watches the Emmys?

The Emmys jumped the shark when Alec Baldwin won one for his awful trump impression. Granted, it’s a good imitation, it just isn’t funny.

OP = The Fake Democrat Concern Troll, trying to manipulate people into letting right-wing shitstains do whatever they want AGAIN.

Americans need to not only trash Donald Trump and his white trash army of suckers every chance we get, but we need to stage sit-in protests, boycotts and blockade the government from functioning until Trump is impeached along with Kavanaugh, the Electoral College is abolished and Senators carry more votes if they represent bigger states.

R50 is certainly doing their part in getting Trump re-elected

The behavior of the Trump administration is far from normal and should be called out as much as possible.

Lick my shitter, r51. Your reverse psychology and underhanded, stealth right-wing propaganda will never work on me. Your ideas serve only Trump.

Democrats lose elections when they don’t present a clear and progressive alternative to Republican disaster-making. The majority of Americans are sick of Trump and his corrupt shit right now, so we need to prosecute the Republicans like Tip O’Neill would.

And every citizen needs to devote most of his time to trashing Donald Trump, not just Stephen Colbert.

Republicans are the Pro-Crime Party now, i.n addition to neglect and failure.

R53 It's not reverse psychology, and I'm not right-wing. I've never voted Republican in my life. It has been proven that when you consistently tell people they are wrong, it only serves to reinforce their original belief. Pointing out Trump's fucked up-ness does not change the minds of his sycophant followers, because they voted for him, and plan to again. Harping on how awful he is and making incessant jokes is only calcifying his followers' belief that he can do no wrong.

I used to love Colbert. But after an entire day of hearing Trump crap there is nothing I want to do less than lay in bed at midnight and listen to Colbert go on and on about him. At some point I need a break from it.

R50 is Boris plant.

OP, it is plainly part of Trump's strategy (if you think he can even conceptualise "strategy") that if he keeps doing what he does long enough, detractors will disengage, as you are doing.

I think Colbert believes he is a key part of The Resistance, and what they have to do is keep on showing, day after day, how terrible all Trumps lies, gaffes and incivilities really are, to prevent people from tuning out his egregious behaviour and therefore not being part of the democratic process. Otherwise, you get Hitler or Stalin. You really do. (And if it isn't Trump, God knows there are plenty of monsters in that GOP who could carry the torch once's he's scorched the earth).

You can switch it all off because it's on TV, of course, but you're really not doing your duty by your country if you start going "Yeah, yeah, I know already."

Oh, and R3 and R10 = Trump.

You can't shit on Trump enough as far as I'm concerned. My last words on this earth are probably going to be "Fuck Trump."

I think Stephen Colbert idolized Trump before he got into politics like when Trump was the Big Pimp of Wall Street. Now that Trump is an exposed bigot Stephen Colbert can't believe he was stupid enough to idolize someone so ruthless and can't go home at night without masturbating to what he thinks about Trump.

Trump is an AFRODISIAC for Stephen Colbert.

[quote]My last words on this earth are probably going to be "Fuck Trump."

Maybe you’ll find some appropriate medication before then.

I've read a lot of dumb shit but your post is stupid enough that I'll remember it r59.

[Quote]like when Trump was the Big Pimp of Wall Street

...what fictional time was this?

[quote]I absolutely fucking abhor Trump

You always know someone is about to pop off with some serious bullshit when they start off with this nonsense.

R61, no thanks. I prefer keeping my feet firmly planted in reality.

Also, Fuck Trump!

Dems are so nasty with the constant cussing r53.

R65, and the mrs.

HE is the BIG PIMP of WALL STREET and PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE RIGHT NOW. YOULL NEVER BE ON HIS LEVEL SO WHAT DOES IT MATTER. AND YOU MIGHT THINK IT WAS A DUMB STUPID POST BUT ITS NOT AS DUMB AND STUPID AS YOU VOTING FOR TRUMP TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. HOW FAR DID THAT GET YOU?

R67 = Trump too.

If these halfwit cunts think Stephen Colbert is a problem, oh my they have some big surprises coming.

You know the Orange Dumbass can't get out of the New York state charges, right? He doesn't have that fat fuck at the DoJ covering his fat ass in New York and they're going to get him no matter what.

Running for office was the dumbest thing he's ever done.

OP Totally agree, so tiresome. But he is a self loathing catholic

Colbert self loathing? Multi millionaire, top rated late night talk show. I bet he's pretty content with himself.

Colbert is sidesplittingly funny. He doesn't always just go after Trump, but Trump provides him so much material. Hypocritical, arrogant buffoons are already easy targets, and when they're in power, it's even more fun.