{"id":605546,"date":"2026-05-21T19:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T19:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=605546"},"modified":"2026-05-21T19:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T19:57:11","slug":"stephen-colbert-wasnt-funny-even-worse-he-wasnt-interesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=605546","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert Wasn\u2019t Funny. Even Worse, He Wasn\u2019t Interesting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Stephen-Colbert-1200x675.png\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>Stephen Colbert\u2019s character on Comedy Central\u2019s The Colbert Report was funny and interesting. The real-life Stephen Colbert, or whatever iteration of Colbert it is on CBS\u2019s The Late Show, is neither. And more than anything, that\u2019s why his show is now canceled. The very corny narrative that the dying news media like to tell is [\u2026]<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Stephen-Colbert-1200x675.png\" title=\"Stephen Colbert Wasn\u2019t Funny. Even Worse, He Wasn\u2019t Interesting\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Colbert\u2019s character on Comedy Central\u2019s The Colbert Report was funny and interesting. The real-life Stephen Colbert, or whatever iteration of Colbert it is on CBS\u2019s The Late Show, is neither. And more than anything, that\u2019s why his show is now canceled. The very corny narrative that the dying news media like to tell is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=605546\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stephen Colbert Wasn\u2019t Funny. Even Worse, He Wasn\u2019t Interesting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":605547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic-empowerment","category-national-security","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=605546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/605547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=605546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=605546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=605546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}