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The amazing ‘last call’ photo of the
people Colbert kept employed

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Posted By: Dreadnought, 5/24/2026 12:05:33 AM

BrianStelter just posted an amazing photograph of The Late Show’s staff, showing that there were roughly 140-160 people on the Colbert payroll. (I didn’t count heads; that’s ChatGPT’s estimate.) Aside from the fact that this is an amazingly large number for a show where a guy cracks a few (bad) jokes, talks to some celebrity guests, and loses CBS $40 million a year, there’s something striking about the photo: Brian Stelter is thrilled, for reasons that are unclear, but I find it fascinating. That’s because this bastion of Democrat politics, where one would expect to find a huge quota of

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Reply 1 - Posted by: DVC 5/24/2026 1:10:20 AM (No. 2108027)
150 leftists wasting money on stale, insipid attempts a humor and endless hateful propaganda. Good riddance. I hope they all have to learn to code....or better do plumbing, something actually useful. Of course, none of them could learn plumbing, that takes some brains.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: itsonlyme 5/24/2026 1:16:05 AM (No. 2108028)
Colbert Michigan Public Access TV May he stand very close at the edge of an ocean cliff, close his eyes, and pretend that he’s a bird
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Reply 3 - Posted by: PismoPat 5/24/2026 2:02:29 AM (No. 2108029)
You'd think all those people could get together and put on a show people would want to see.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: FL_Absentee_Voter 5/24/2026 3:14:29 AM (No. 2108031)
Unfortunately, none of that crowd will have learned a thing. They, too, got hoodwinked into thinking they were part of a successful enterprise and that it was Trump who put an end to it.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: PChristopher 5/24/2026 4:02:15 AM (No. 2108035)
Gutfeld pointed this out months ago, noting that his own staff is somewhere around fifteen. Sounds like a lot of money being wasted on people doing what exactly?
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Reply 6 - Posted by: LadyVet 5/24/2026 7:10:30 AM (No. 2108073)
Doesn't look 50% female either. But still, there were enough AWFLs to ruin anything.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Strike3 5/24/2026 8:24:16 AM (No. 2108109)
The numbers are astonishing. That's a staff that Harry and Meghan would envy.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: udanja99 5/24/2026 8:34:00 AM (No. 2108116)
Reminds me that conservative radio host Chris Plante loves to point out that he does a 3 hour show, five days a week with a staff of 3, which includes himself. NPR requires a staff of 36 to do a one hour show, one day a week. NPR and Colbert’s show are perfect examples of why we so desperately needed DOGE.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: privateer 5/24/2026 8:49:56 AM (No. 2108126)
Maybe we're being a little unfair to the guy. It was very generous of him to start his own 'hire the unemployable' program.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: WV.Hillbilly 5/24/2026 8:58:12 AM (No. 2108131)
175 people including Colbert in that picture.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: VietVet68 5/24/2026 9:13:40 AM (No. 2108136)
The Colbert show employed a large number of staff when you consider 99% of their content was focused on Donald Trump. No wonder they were losing money.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: franq 5/24/2026 10:38:01 AM (No. 2108164)
Coal-burt. One down, several to go.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Vaquero45 5/24/2026 12:02:53 PM (No. 2108194)
All the lefties are mourning the demise of this halfwit, but they never mention all the money he burned up at CBS: $40,000,000 a YEAR! And this went on for a few years… It took new management at SeeBS to realize that this couldn’t continue.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: chance_232 5/24/2026 1:36:15 PM (No. 2108223)
Colbert needed most of them just to carry and prop up his ego.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: MickTurn 5/24/2026 2:53:47 PM (No. 2108237)
Obviously all of them DID NOTHING...The Show Sucked because it was nothing but TDS, BASH TRUMP every show, every minute while the Leftist MORONS in the Audience Clapped and cheered. What a Pathetic Pile of Nothing! Oh, Wait, Cow Patties were all over the floor and the audience was chewing on them thinking they were GOOD FOOD!
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