The men of late night reacted to the news that CBS has cancelled The Late Show with varying degrees of intelligence on their Monday shows. On the dumb end of the spectrum was fellow Paramount employee Jon Stewart, who reacted on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show by telling CBS to “go fuck” itself and dropping countless additional F-bombs.
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On NBC’s Late Night, Seth Meyers was undeterred by the argument that says late night is dying because it’s become way too partisan, sarcastically claiming, “Obviously, we try to hit both sides equally… Look, the nice thing about being in your twelfth year of doing a show, look, our audience knows where we stand. By the way, I don't want to do a show where people don't know where I stand. And, you know, I come to my opinions about things authentically. Like, the weird kind of show right now would be a show where you do try to, like, see which way the wind's blowing.”
He further declared that “hopefully it's a cathartic show to watch.”
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