Ticketmaster has been all over the news recently with their free ticket voucher code program, a result of them losing a class-action lawsuit for overcharging fans. After the free-ticket voucher-code program had it’s ups and downs over the past few days, with many fans complaining of an inability to use their vouchers, Ticketmaster announced that the program was closed, and that half of the $10 Million-worth of tickets they were required to deliver to fans had been fulfilled. Then, this morning, it seems they secretly re-opened the voucher program with more eligible events added to their list, and, off course, the majority of the shows (and most of the ones worth going to) sold out immediately, leaving most fans back where they started.
With all of the public ups and downs of this lawsuit that affects the majority of concert-goers since 1999, Stephen Colbert, host of The Late Show on CBS, addressed the Ticketmaster lawsuit scandal in his opening monologue last night. He really let it rip, getting in good shots on Guns’n’Roses, Smash Mouth, and the mostly low-quality of events that the ticketing giant is offering as part of this program.
Watch the full video of Stephen Colbert discussing Ticketmaster below: