But “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert has a theory on the network’s decline that has nothing to do with any of that. He believes the biggest stories in the news these days are so hard on supporters of President Donald Trump that they’d rather tune out. “I think it depresses Trump voters to hear that stuff, so they’d rather just not hear it, because they can’t have been wrong.”“So what do you think they’re watching instead?” Rich asked. (The writers’ room features a screen partially devoted to Trump’s Twitter feed, just to make sure the staff doesn’t miss anything.) More than once in the past two weeks, Colbert said, he had to personally inform the audience of major breaking news so they’d get the laughs.

Source: Huffington Post May 22, 2017 16:18 UTC