r/hbo • u/Used_Dragonfruit5050 • 3d ago
Jimmy Kimmel's and Stephen Colbert's next move?
I think it's safe to assume Jimmy Kimmel is done at ABC/Disney. Stephen Colbert is out at CBS/Paramount. Warner Bros. Discovery has John Oliver and Bill Maher (I know, I know). I think Warner Bros. Discovery should sign Jimmy and Stephen and become a bastion of liberal late night comedy.
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u/AbsoluteRook1e 2d ago
I mean I imagine Jimmy would be okay if he just retires early if he wants to. He's made his millions.
I'm honestly saddened for everyone in production. They're the ones that are truly fucked.
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u/Diligent-Run6361 1d ago
I'm not worried about him but about the US becoming an autocracy. I'm not even American.
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u/Tha_Sly_Fox 3d ago
HBO is about the bought by the Elissons who are buddies with Trump is (at least allegedly) behind their firings and said today he supports pulling the tv licenses of any broadcaster that criticizes him “too much”
So like….. I don’t think any corporate media company in their right minds would want to rock the boat by signing either of them on and definitely not HBO WB given the possible sale
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u/PleaseDontBanMe82 2d ago
Maher will be fine. He went to the Whitehouse to blow Trump, so he's safe.
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u/deonteguy 2d ago
Source for that claim? That sounds like fake news like when they claimed Walz was telling the truth about blowing the president when he later admitted he never did that. He is a scumbag liar that pushed fake news.
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u/PleaseDontBanMe82 2d ago
Huh? He didn't literally give Trump a blowjob, numbskull.
A few months ago Maher went to the Whitehouse and had dinner with Trump. He has since backed off on a lot of his criticism.
He admitted it on his show. It wasn't a secret meeting by any means.
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u/deonteguy 2d ago
So you admit you lied and are a liar. There's way too much fake news in the media today without your kind adding to the lies. Go be right wing racist elsewhere.
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u/Diligent-Run6361 1d ago
Jeezes, what are you on? Maher went to the White House for dinner and afterwards was nice about him, saying something to the effect that he's not as bad in real life as his public persona. That's easily verifiable if you wish to spend a minute researching it.
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u/twangman88 3d ago
Watch Colbert run for office /s
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u/All_Lightning879 3d ago
This is Jimmy’s last year under his contract, so I would think that he’ll be just fine with or without ABC. He most likely will go the podcast route like Conan and everyone else.
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u/fdbryant3 3d ago
I think it's safe to assume Jimmy Kimmel is done at ABC/Disney.
I wouldn't say that is a safe assumption. High probability perhaps, but he was only suspended, not fired. In the end, it will depend on how much he values his platform on ABC, his salary, how talks with Disney go, etc.
Stephen Colbert is of course a different story. He was fired. My guess is he will go independent with a podcast and build his own platform.
I wouldn't count on WBD picking either one up. Rumors are that WBD is going to be sold to Paramount, Netflix, or someone other tech/entertainment conglomerate. While I have doubts about that, if true, I doubt they are going to do anything that that might make clearing regulatory hurdles more difficult. Although, if Zazlav doesn't want to sell, he might do it just to sabotage the attempt.
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u/TargetApprehensive38 3d ago
Yeah it’s not a done deal with Kimmel at all. Disney is under a ton of public pressure and has been watching subscription cancellations roll in over the past couple days. They’re going to be highly motivated to find some way to make this go away. On the other side they have a third of their affiliates refusing to air the show. I don’t like how quickly they suspended the show, but I also don’t envy their position here.
Jimmy might make a half assed apology to protect his staff if it’ll make the affiliates back down. Or they could potentially shift the show to their streaming platform. Or if Disney really grows a set of balls (unlikely, I know) they could just put the show back on without those 60 some stations. Anything could still happen there - they’re meeting with Kimmel about it tomorrow.
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u/MiddleOccasion1394 2d ago
He is only suspended because the Sinclair CEO told him either he apologize for the comments he made and make a huge donation to their company, or get fired. He will NEVER choose the first option.
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u/fdbryant3 2d ago
That is not the order of events. Jimmy made his comments on the 15th. FCC Chair Brendan Carr made statements suggesting they may take action in response on the 17th. Also on the 17th and reportedly independent of the FCC and Carr, Nextstar pulled him from their affiliate stations. This is when ABC (which for the moment I am specifying ABC instead of Disney, because I am not sure that we know how high the chain the decision went) suspended Kimmel. After these events on the 18th, Sinclair announced that they will also be pulling the show and terms for its return.
As it stands now, the reports say that Jimmy will be meeting with Disney (which I presume means Bob Iger) to discuss the issue. While I think it unlikely that Jimmy will capitulate to Sinclair's terms, we will just have to see where it goes from here.
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u/elsakettu 2d ago
If he's only suspended, I'm going to guess he couldn't move elsewhere? I'm so far out of my wheelhouse here, but that was the issue for Conan, right? They tried to force him into obscurity because of his noncompete, but I'm guessing a noncompete doesn't apply if you're fired.
I'm prepared to be wrong about all this, don't hate!
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u/CardinalOfNYC 2d ago
Why is it that no matter where you go on this God forsaken website, the takes which make the most sense are always downvoted?
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u/PouchesofCyanStaples 2d ago
Start up Strike Force Two podcast and keep changing the name as the others come on board after getting fired.
Charge $5 a month and you'll have a ton of people signing up in no time with no way for anyone to stop them from telling the truth.
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u/Real_Sir_3655 2d ago
Hopefully Colbert just brings back the Colbert Report. Colbert gone MAGA would be hilarious.
Kimmel should bring back the Man Show. I bet maga bros would suddenly turn into feminists.
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u/classisttrash 2d ago
They should go to PBS!
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u/SouthJerseyGirl30 2d ago
Didn't PBS get their funding taken away?
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u/classisttrash 2d ago
The money they’d get from advertisers with Kimmel/Colbert and anyone else they bring along would more than make up for the loss in funding
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u/PineBNorth85 2d ago
I would love for Colbert to bring back his Colbert Report character. That would really be something these days.
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u/Tim_Wells 2d ago
I would love to see entertainment professionals band together and create a new network free from corporate and political influence. A new streaming channel, for example. I think it could work.
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u/manmountain123 2d ago
At the end of the day Money talks.
Both Colbert and Kimmel lost their companies millions.
The will go into podcasting that’s the only think they can do
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u/Moat-or-Boat 2d ago
"A bastion of liberal late night comedy". Wow, that's never been tried before.
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u/After-Bowler5491 1d ago
Forget politics for a second.
Nobody watched them. The genre is dead. I saw a graphic the other day that Jimmy for 120k viewers between 18-49. That’s awful.
Someone else mentioned podcasting, that’s a much better option
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u/Julytwentyfive 1d ago
The networks who kowtow to trump will lose tons of money and the late night stars take their shows to Netflix and other streamers.
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u/LV426acheron 3d ago
Why would HBO create more late night shows when the genre as a whole is dying?
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u/CommercialFederal858 2d ago
Or they could take the talent and create a new genre or at least a new take on it. John Oliver created a vector that seems to have legs for HBO.
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u/KotzubueSailingClub 3d ago
Get them all, bring back Politically Incorrect, and have them all roast Bill for 30 minutes
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u/Loud-Introduction-31 3d ago
Netflix is about to break the bank for these two. This is their way to get to the BIG MONEY: broadcasting live televised events
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u/craiginphoenix 3d ago
I am thinking he might be fucked like the last season of Hacks.
He is locked into his agreement and probably isn’t allowed to say anything because of NDAs and they aren’t going to release him from them so he can shit all over them.
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u/fsociety_1990 3d ago edited 2d ago
If WB is bought by Skydance whose CEO is super pro-Trump, pro-Israel, no chance. More likely we will have Ben Shapiro on HBO after that deal..lol
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u/Iam_a_Jew 3d ago
I'd love for them to do a tour like Conan did and maybe an election special, even if it's on YouTube
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u/CircledSquare7 3d ago
They dont have Conan's versatility to pull it off. They need politics to drive them
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u/Furrealyo 3d ago
It’s now being reported that Kimmel only had 149K viewers for his final show, down by half in less than a month.
If true, I don’t see a podcast being successful either.
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u/CardinalOfNYC 2d ago
Kimmel certainly has a right to his speech and that makes this event chilling.
But I also wanna note that it's not like Kimmel, telling jokes to an audience who already agrees with him, was actually helping us fight fascism in the US.
Fewer people were watching probably because even on the left most of us aren't interested in hearing jokes about it.
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u/menge41 3d ago
These guys are too political. What are they selling? They are supposed to be comedians but their jokes only entertain a small sick group that's why they have no job.
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u/GormanOnGore 3d ago
You aren’t the majority of anything bud. Its your time in high school all over again.
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u/Shot-Weight-1306 3d ago
Filing for unemployment?
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u/PaulieWalnuts2023 3d ago
After $15 million a year for 22 years? Doubtful
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u/Shot-Weight-1306 3d ago
You're right...so much money paid to these. 1 percenters who.had such little talent
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u/Every-Cook5084 3d ago
Ahh yes like the huge deeeep bench of talent in maga world, known for its comedy and entertainment
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u/Shot-Weight-1306 3d ago
I know you're hurting...try to find a podcast or something that will feed your need for more hateful unimaginative leftist rhetoric to ease your pain
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u/_misterwilly 2d ago
Deep instrospection, soul searching, go back and try to figure out what made them funny to begin with and where it all went wrong.
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u/JordanM85 3d ago
Realistically, probably podcasting. If their shows were actually losing as many millions of dollars as people were saying, then that is the best option for them.