Will Colbert and Kimmel both survive moving further left

Colbert is doing great in the ratings sadly.

Kimmel is too much of a figure to be taken down at this point, but he is the lowest rated.

The terrible late night shows can’t be getting good ratings. Who watches that shite

Sure . Progs think everything is political . They don't even want comedy anymore they want a moral nanny and they get the kind of shrillness they need. Both will thrive because its destination viewing for Progs. It's a cultural statement --" I emote , therefore I am ". It's part of the orthodoxy now - like learning bible passages .

Does anybody really watch those shows anyway?

short answer, yes

kimmel's audience for the week ending 9/29 was 2.3 million the show airs 5 times a week on broadcast television available to 126 million households in the united states for free.

that 2.3 million is a weekly number divided by 5 that's 400k per episode.

there are 300 million people in the united states. 200 million adults 400k is .002, there are 10,000 neilsen boxes .002 times 10,000 is 20 that's the number of the neilsen sample that's likely tuned into the kimmel show.

in carson's hey day he had a nightly audience of 12 million. in saturday night live's hey day it had a single weekly audience of 30 million today it's 3 million and that's it's highest ratings in 5 years.

if these shows had to rely on just ad revenue they'd be off the air.

they don't they now get subscription fees from your local cable company. that's why every time they get into a peeing contest with the cable company's they take to local radio telling you to call your cable provider demanding that they carry local stations.

it's interesting their choice of local radio, i can show you a larger audience and better demographics on kplx fm, DFW's number 1 morning drive time radio station than i can on the kimmel show.

kplx is "today's country" the number two station is regional mexican.

the total audience for all three nightly chat shows is about 1.4 million per night.

Their shows will fail eventually for not other reason than the viewers will get sick of the politicizing of a late night show.

They'll both end up on CNN or MSNBC.

Obviously anecdotal, but I don't know one person in my life that watches late night TV talk shows like these anymore.

I'd imagine that all of their ratings are down and appealing to a niche is their way to stay relevant to a small, but super motivated segment of their audience.

The networks are also scared shitless by the bleeding victim, letter sending, twitter bashing, faux movement starting, fake boycotting mentality so airing a right leaning late night show to appeal to the other side of the "small, super motivated" segment would be advertiser suicide, thus not practical.

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Will Colbert and Kimmel both survive moving further left

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Yes