Late-Night TV Faces Decline Amid High-Profile Cancellations
TL;DR
The article compares the history of satirical political shows on CBS, highlighting how both 'The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour' and 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert' faced censorship and cancellation due to their critique of power, illustrating the ongoing tension between political satire and network control in American television.
- Stephen Colbert wasn’t CBS’s first satirical sacrifice Salon.com
- David Letterman had something to say about the Stephen Colbert cancellation CNN
- Washington Post, NY Times columns insist Colbert cancelation is due to obsolete format, not politics Fox News
- Jon Stewart rips Paramount, CBS in profanity-laden diatribe after cancellation of Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ NBC News
- Colbert is latest casualty of late-night TV's fade-out Reuters
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