05-21-26 Part Two - Colbert's Final Curtain - Free Transcript | Red Eye Radio

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Welcome in good morning. Thanks so much for being here. [Music] You know, co-bear show ends this week. Here's, here's Byron Allen talking about.

“He's, he was on, was he on CBS? He was on, I think.”

Yeah, I think it was on C, was, I forgot what he was, what channel he was actually on here. Yeah, CBS morning, he was on. Okay, talking about it, okay, about the cancellation of co-bear. And what it's about, all right, all right.

And it's interesting because he gets to be, he says he's a fan of co-bear. They love co-bear. Yeah. And he talks about the fact that, hey, this is all business. Yeah, it's not show business. It's business show.

Right, here we go. Here's what he had to say.

But you just mentioned that you've written jokes for David Letterman, and you know the public criticism from Letterman, from Kimball, from others, about CBS canceling co-bear. How does that sit with you as the person who's taking on this time slot? I think it was a very unfortunate event.

I love Stephen co-bear. I'm a big fan. Once they made the decision, I said, okay, this isn't show business. This is business show. You know, they said, you know, they're losing lots of money. I said, here's a solution, not to lose lots of money.

And I think we can hold on to his audience and hopefully build on it. Because it is business show, not show business. I absolutely love co-bear. And I would do anything he doesn't need me. I would do anything to support him.

And quickly before we run out of time, you're going to have the show is comedians discussing funny things that happen. That's right.

“And are you going to talk politics or is it all about comedy?”

No, no politics. That's it. You come, you laugh. You know, we're celebrating our, I created the show 20 years ago. And we're about to have our 20th anniversary this fall,

you know, the 20th anniversary of comics, 20 years of laughter. We've had on a thousand comedians. Every and every state shaped size you name. You say this is how you want to bring people together.

And I want to bring people together using comedy. All right. I'm going to have it all. It's going to happen on Friday. It's like we've got to hurry through this interview too.

We talked about that earlier. Get to the interview room. Come on. We've only got a certain amount of time. You got two minutes.

And you know, but he said it right there. Yeah. I didn't know until yesterday, the average age of co-bearers audience. You just told me during the break.

You've seen the look on her experience. 68. What did you guess? 29. [laughs]

Every change of his audience is 68. 68. Yeah. Well, no wonder they're losing money. The audience is on a fixed income.

[laughs] I mean, the business model is that you got to get the advertising demographics. You got to get the people who spend a lot of money.

“By the way, why weren't there more RV commercials during co-bearers?”

Yeah. You know, I mean, it's, if the average age is 68 in cotton and products. [laughs] Why am I laughing? I'm in that age group.

Yeah. Why am I laughing? You know, see, that's the problem. I don't think I'm a part of that age group. Well, you know, that's the problem here.

I'm like, I, I like those old farts. I, I love so hard at the end of the show. I, I, I, I don't, don't stop. Stop it, stop it. Lar, hard at the end of the show.

Don't, don't, don't. It was, it was there. It was so funny. I'd peed somebody else's pants. Okay.

Listen. [laughs]

The problem is, well, I still can't get past.

[laughs] 20 losing between 20 and 40 million dollars a year and being on for five minutes longer. No, no, no, no, no. Firing me, you know, and telling me,

bring me in the room. And telling me that, it would have been like, okay. You're making this up, right?

Then they would show you the books and go, no, no, no.

Here's the books and.

And then I would just have to ask,

how stupid are you people? [laughs] I would have fired me years ago. [laughs] How in the world did this happen?

And I, you know, this, this, I don't know.

“Virtue signaling exit by the radical left.”

And in Hollywood, is there such a thing as a group, the group, the radical late night talk show left. And there's only a few left. And it's, again, they want you to believe he's being canceled by Trump. Yeah.

That's the entire spirit around this that you,

Jon Stewart was trying to make, he was trying to make that. And it's stupid. And this is what in Letterman, you know, you can, you can cancel the show, but you can't cancel the man.

All right, Dave. What does that even mean? Well, I made the point that, and for those that missed it, did they say,

“did CBS say they were canceling the man?”

If they didn't say they were canceling the man? If they didn't say they were canceling the man? If they didn't say they were canceling the man?

If they didn't say they were canceling the man?