No Mercy / No Malice: Last Laugh

I'm Scott Galloway and this is No Mercy, No Malice. It's getting late early for late-night television, but don't worry, they're just being reconstituted as podcasts. Same irreverence, same talent, just 90% less production costs. Last laugh, as read by George Hahn. It's getting awfully late, early, for late-night TV.

Stephen Colbert shocked his audience on July 17th with the news that CBS had canceled the late show. I interpreted it as the latest sign of America's descent into fascism, another media company bending the knee. The headlines came just three days after Colbert slammed Paramount's decision to pay Trump $16 million to settle a nuisance lawsuit over the editing of a 60 Minutes interview, calling it a big fat bribe. CBS is part of Paramount. which needed the Trump administration to bless the transfer of billions from one billionaire Nepo baby, David Ellison, to another billionaire Nepo baby, Sherry Redstone.

At some point, people will notice the only ones willing to buy media companies are rich kids who didn't have to actually make any money. But I digress. I was wrong about Colbert. Economics are driving him out, not politics. Granted, two things can be true at once, and Colbert's constant ribbing of the president probably made his walk on the Green Mile shorter, but let's be clear, winter was coming.

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