DEAR DIARY: Jim Acosta Didn’t Like Greg Gutfeld’s Reality Check About Colbert’s Cancellation (Replies Off of Course).
And it’s the reason they were canceled. That head count is more than most decent sized businesses. For 3 jokes a night, at best. https://t.co/50pAssA87w
— GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) May 23, 2026
You are celebrating the fact that all of these people are losing their jobs. All because your dear leader can’t take a joke. Seriously wtf is wrong with you. https://t.co/cnmm7xcXvD
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) May 23, 2026
By the end of Obama’s second term, Jim’s then-employer had a simple, if rather brutal, solution they proffered to employees losing their jobs in industries that the three-term president and his party’s operatives with bylines had dubbed obsolete:
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This is satire but brilliant. https://t.co/Sx52PJSUAe
— Sasha Stone (@realsashastone) May 24, 2026
Exit quote: “The Strike Force Five — Fallon, Kimmel, Meyers, Oliver — appeared in a segment about late-night losing ‘one middle-aged white man who makes jokes about the news.’ They were joking about their own obsolescence. All of them know. None of them will say it. The format is dead. The audience moved to phones. The phones don’t have desks or bands. The phones have men in garages who are allowed to be wrong, allowed to be surprised, allowed to say something their audience hasn’t already approved. That’s comedy. We stopped doing that a decade ago. We did approval. Approval looks like comedy from a distance. Up close it’s church.”