The Daily Show’s Michael Kosta proved two things on the Monday edition of his Tennis Anyone podcast, so named because in his previous life, Kosta was a professional tennis player. First, apparently everybody has a podcast, but more importantly, the late night shows have an oversized view of their own self-importance, as Kosta demanded CBS take a loss on Stephen Colbert’s show because he is needed to “call the bullshit out” and that by canceling him, CBS is kowtowing to President Trump and his habit of acting like “authoritarian leaders.”
Kosta was not happy with CBS’s justification for the cancelation, “Do you know how much bullshit CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox put outs that loses money? That all loses money. Every once in a while something doesn't. Flip through Netflix, look through all those thumbnails, 90 percent lose money.”
He then claimed that CBS didn’t even try to save the show, “If this was a financial decision and it was important to you. And this is the thing: it might have been a financial decision that wasn't important to you, but if this was a financial decision and it was important to you, you would cut back costs, you would tell Stephen, ‘Here's what we gotta do. Your show's important to us,’ and you would accept less profit or even breaking even or even losing a little bit of money because it's important.”
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