Stu Burguiere

Thank you, Megan.

Great to be here.

It's incredible, especially from someone that has just not really made an impact, right?

I mean, he went over there and he started, there's this big piece of the New York Times, just, you know, again, another obituary for the show today, where they talk about how he started over at, you know, with the show.

And he tried to do a show that would entertain people like every other late night host was doing for many, many years.

The formula that appealed to a mass audience, make some jokes, the show's not super expensive to produce, you make a bunch of money, everybody's happy.

He tried to do that and it was failing.

It was failing miserably.

So Donald Trump comes down the escalator.

Colbert decides he's going to switch his shtick.

I mean, he'd always been obviously critical of conservatives, but he was trying to do something else, I guess, at the beginning.

And the way the Times phrases it is, you know, he became successful in a period where it was still possible for a show to be successful with a point of view.

Which is, I thought, an amazing way to put it.

I missed the era where all these networks were allowing conservative points of view to be the lead parts of their late night shows and hardcore conservatives being critical.

I don't remember Rush Limbaugh having the late night show.

He did have a syndicated show at one point that was successful.

But that's not the way that they allowed this stuff to work, even with successful people like Rush.

It's a joke.

He has not been successful.

He's just shedding money like crazy.