I was a writer late at night. Canceling Colbert hurts the American comedy – and the realization Stephen Colbert

Last week – a few days after Stephen Colbert summoned his mother company to pay him to Donald Trump millions of dollars – CBS canceled the late offer with Stephen Kulbert.

Perhaps people will finally stop Trump’s good saying to the comedy.

In this last management of Trump, I often removed me that I am not off to be angry all the time. I am a comedy writer. I am based on naming the pies of the pies and writing a camel like “The deodorant every woman is called sensitive whisper and every man is called sweat deodorant with cows!” I Get There is nothing more annoying than the comedian who is getting more dangerous, however we are here.

First, let’s deal with what is clear: Was the cancellation for political reasons or, as the network claims, for “purely financial” reasons. My answer? Yes. The problem is that we continue to deal with those like separate things.

CBS does not end the offer for 10 months. They could issue the advertisement whenever they wanted. But they chose to tell Stephen Colbert, a host Top network late in the network late in the networkJust 48 hours after Paramount described Trump, “Big Breeding”. They chose to cancel the prize Paabody offer in the midst of an attempt to sell Paramount to a company called Skydance, a merged process that must be approved by the Trump administration. They chose to tell Colbert that they were abolishing, One day After meeting the CEO of Skydance with FCC and discussion CBS’s editorial decisions.

Basically, if the decision is not political, it is certain that Paramount is happy to allow it Look Political, and at this stage there is no meaningful difference. Whether the network has canceled the late offer to please Trump or not, they did so knowing that he believed it.

CBS wants this in both directions. They want viewers to believe that they are an unbiased network and they want Trump to think they will do anything he wants.

This is what I think is a person who lives in this world now. But, as a comic writer, he wrote a TV late at night nearly a decade? Well, I cannot stop thinking about jokes. This cancellation is really sad for me because I believe in the power of jokes.

The real story: Once the man passes me and began to pierce me at my face. I told a joke and stopped beating me. This is the power of jokes. (No, I will not tell you a banter. Because I say that, then it will be “come on”, it is not funny, “and then I must be everything:” No, you had to be there. It is not funny when you don’t bend in my face.)

The thing in jokes is that it requires a common base of knowledge. A common truth. If you tell a joke about a commercial advertisement and do not see this announcement, the joke will not exceed well. Losing offers late at night is another step towards losing a common truth, and this is for me terrifying.

There is a moment that knows all New Yorker. This happens when you are on the subway and someone does something specially crazy: a 83 -year -old white woman, or a man who wears a three -piece suit that publicly cuts his nails. Then it attracts the attention of someone through the train – raising their eyebrows and raising your eyebrows back. Then you feel a little better. Because another person saw what I saw and could confirm that Something.

Late at night, like Stephen Colib, does it on a wider scale. They are our way of saying: “Hey, this is crazy, right?” Isn’t it? “In this world of algorithm, flagrant lies and deep lies, late TV is a place you can collect at night and say:” Yes, this has happened and it is strange. “

Here is something else that I like about jokes: the basis of jokes is the truth. I have written books, speeches, games shows and news articles and me never The facts were examined as much as I was writing late at night. Just only do not work if they are not based on something real.

And on our leaders? The ability to take a joke. If our companies imposed on government companies and representatives cannot deal with them on television late at night, we do not need new offers. We need new leaders. In this current system – with Congress and the Supreme Court that does not want anything more than meeting every Trump’s whims – we have no lots of options to hold our leaders accountable. In a free society, it is not only joking about our leaders, as this is vital.

For me, this is not only about Colbert. (I met him once. In 2014, last day last night, John Oliver was appointed to commit our first offer, Colbert came to our office and went from one room to another to congratulate each of the employees and I wish us luck. It was a good gesture that I will remember.)

It is not only about his employees – a few hundred people in my studies, specialists, specialists, and qualifying for ridicule at the top of their game.

It is not only a humiliating weakness, television networks continue to show them because the president suits them in silence.

It is about jokes. We need jokes. Because this country can really use a break from getting punching on the face.