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By Charlie Nash
The Late Show host Stephen Colbert ridiculed the merger deal between his show’s parent company Paramount and Skydance on Monday with a slew of pee-related jokes.
Reacting to the FCC’s approval of the merger, which came after Paramount settled a lawsuit with President Donald Trump for $16+ million and canceled Colbert’s show, Colbert mocked:
"I’m thrilled for everyone at Paramount that the deal went through and very excited for our newly-announced, official combined Paramount-Skydance stock ticker name, which will go from PARA to PSKY. Soon, PSKY will blast hot, streaming content right in your face with hits like Yellowstone, Yellowjackets, and a full variety of water sports. I predict PSKY will become synonymous with number one. PSKY: A pitcher of warm entertainment."
He continued, “After months of delay, the deal was finally approved by FCC chairman and brilliant handsome man who Paramount officials described as ‘liquid sex’, Brendan Carr. Commissioner Carr knows that our show was losing tens of millions of dollars and Trump did not have anything to do with the cancelation, as he explained on Fox News.”
Colbert then played a clip from Fox News where FCC Chairman Brendan Carr was asked, “Did President Trump have anything to do with the cancelation of Stephen Colbert’s show?”
“Well, here’s what’s important to keep in mind is a broader dynamic. When President Trump ran for election, he ran right at these legacy broadcast media outfits and the New York and Hollywood elites that are behind it,” answered Carr. “Look at what’s happening. NPR has been defunded, PBS has been defunded, Colbert is getting canceled.”
Last week, Colbert tore into Paramount for handing Trump millions of dollars after laying of thousands of employees.
“Last year, Paramount laid off 2,000 employees, then cut another several hundred just last month,” he said. “Firing that many people and then handing over 36 mil to a guy who is putting your neighbors in alligator camps, all because of a lawsuit that your own lawyers said was completely without merit, if that’s true, it would make CBS morally bankrupt. Also, bankrupt.”
The Late Show host also responded to Trump’s celebration of his cancelation with a, “Go fuck yourself!”
Watch above via The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
By Charlie Nash
The Late Show host Stephen Colbert ridiculed the merger deal between his show’s parent company Paramount and Skydance on Monday with a slew of pee-related jokes.
Reacting to the FCC’s approval of the merger, which came after Paramount settled a lawsuit with President Donald Trump for $16+ million and canceled Colbert’s show, Colbert mocked:
"I’m thrilled for everyone at Paramount that the deal went through and very excited for our newly-announced, official combined Paramount-Skydance stock ticker name, which will go from PARA to PSKY. Soon, PSKY will blast hot, streaming content right in your face with hits like Yellowstone, Yellowjackets, and a full variety of water sports. I predict PSKY will become synonymous with number one. PSKY: A pitcher of warm entertainment."
He continued, “After months of delay, the deal was finally approved by FCC chairman and brilliant handsome man who Paramount officials described as ‘liquid sex’, Brendan Carr. Commissioner Carr knows that our show was losing tens of millions of dollars and Trump did not have anything to do with the cancelation, as he explained on Fox News.”
Colbert then played a clip from Fox News where FCC Chairman Brendan Carr was asked, “Did President Trump have anything to do with the cancelation of Stephen Colbert’s show?”
“Well, here’s what’s important to keep in mind is a broader dynamic. When President Trump ran for election, he ran right at these legacy broadcast media outfits and the New York and Hollywood elites that are behind it,” answered Carr. “Look at what’s happening. NPR has been defunded, PBS has been defunded, Colbert is getting canceled.”
Last week, Colbert tore into Paramount for handing Trump millions of dollars after laying of thousands of employees.
“Last year, Paramount laid off 2,000 employees, then cut another several hundred just last month,” he said. “Firing that many people and then handing over 36 mil to a guy who is putting your neighbors in alligator camps, all because of a lawsuit that your own lawyers said was completely without merit, if that’s true, it would make CBS morally bankrupt. Also, bankrupt.”
The Late Show host also responded to Trump’s celebration of his cancelation with a, “Go fuck yourself!”
Watch above via The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
