Even the late-night guest itinerary has slumped over the years, as lesser known "celebrities" and people about whom viewers couldn't care less show up to fill broadcast minutes. It is particular telling to discover TV networks choosing "guests" from their own programs and news departments frequently. The dilemma: The Jimmy Stewarts, Jack Bennys and other highly cherished, if not deeply loved super-stars of Hollywood are mostly dead and gone, replaced now by prettied-up know-nothings with experience in nothing whatsoever except how to respond to stupid questions and innocuous banter with vacuous answers. In the late night world, substance has been increasingly replaced by guest brains apparently half-eaten by zombies. And n o o n e i s watching in sustainable numbers anymore. If you don't know it the sponsors certainly do.
Viewers accustomed to watching a succession of late-night TV shows hosted by the likes of Jerry Lester (the first?), Steve Allen, Jack Paar, Johnny Carson and other early pioneers of the format easily settled in comfortably for the most part when Jay Leno and David Letterman took the reins of TV's darker hours, when comedy was funny and the shows provided something for everyone without resorting to vicious political attacks disguised cleverly as humor night after tortured night.
Which brings us back to Stephen Colbert -- and, just perhaps, the possibility that the Lord of Kimmel, James himself, may also experience a network late-night disappearing act one day soon, in keeping with extraordinary changes affecting TV as well as the rest of society. At least for a brief respite in another year The Ed Sullivan Theater can be aired out, with the stench of leftist party politics couched as entertainment faded away. And dead Ed can stop spinning.
No longer can Democrats make fun of anybody who isn't they. A party saddled with not only the wit and wisdom of David Hogg, but now NY's mayoral sorta-hopeful socialist Democrat Mamdani, a potential "squad" member if ever there was one, will have a lot of digging out to do before even more mud hits the fan.
New York City and its boroughs, with the able assistance of NY's Capitol district in Albany, has long been proficient at allowing its stinking trainloads of garbage to be exported upstate to overflowing landfills in the most pristine areas of Upstate NY. For a change, a different kind of odor can't be exported and will be required to set up a socialist influence right in the heart of NY City, depending upon how one sees a potential Mamdani administration. If Mamdani wins the election, as prime businesses in NYC head for the exit door, it will be interesting to see just how long the organized street trash will remain satisfied before the socialist dam busts.
The Fed: Disband this fetid assemblage of five super-sized banks and let's go back to just the Treasury. With new legislation on block chain currencies and everything else most of us don't entirely comprehend, it's really time to make life simple, to at least try.
