Culture CBS is ending ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’ next year

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By Brian Stelter and Dan Heching, CNN
Thu July 17, 2025

In a shocking move, CBS is ending “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” next year, potentially exiting the late-night television business altogether.

The cancellation will take effect in May 2026, the normal end of the broadcast TV season, the network said.

The Thursday night announcement came just two weeks after the parent company of CBS, Paramount, settled a lawsuit lodged by President Trump against CBS News.

The settlement – and Paramount’s pending merger with Skydance Media – spurred speculation about Colbert’s future at CBS. Colbert, after all, is one of the staunchest critics of Trump on television.

CBS, however, said in a statement that “this is purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night. It is not related in any way to the show’s performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount.”

Colbert shared the news at his show taping on Thursday afternoon.

“Next year will be our last season,” Colbert said as audible ‘boos’ were heard in the live studio audience. “The network will be ending our show in May,” he said. “It’s the end of ‘The Late Show’ on CBS,” he added, going on to say, “This is all just going away.”

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He also killed political discussion because people could just hide bullshit with satire and if they get called out on it they can just say "Oh it's just comedy bro don't you get it"?
You don't hate him enough, or rather his fans, enough, for the way it turned caustic, snarky dismissal into a valid argument (in their eyes).

It was infuriating to the extreme to come to a political debate with a briefcase full of facts and graphs about how a proposed trillion-dollar social program was not going to work, and to be met with a patronizing "Uh oh! Someone thinks its still 1982!" and get laughed off the stage while the person whose "argument" boiled down to "I'm right because I don't got to church and pray for God to solve my problems, I get them done for REAL!" got all the applause.
 
(before going on to watch the superior late late show with Craig Ferguson afterwards.)
He was definitely the only one that I found consistently funny. Loved his bit about illuminated manuscripts being invented so nobody could send pissed-of letters, because by the time you finished the first letter you would have cooled down.
The smug faggot who danced around on stage with a bunch of people dressed like hypodermic needles to shame people into taking an experimental "vaccine" that was being forced on them? Yeah, fuck that guy, he can try to get a residency in Vegas, or God forbid, a real job providing goods and/or services. Why yes, I would like fries with that.
Colbert isn't just unfunny, he's actually fucking malicious. The Colbert report had a frequently recurring section detailing the absolute corruption and evil shit that pharmaceutical companies got up to. He read that kinda stuff off for almost a decade, then turned around and did straight-up propaganda pressuring his audience to take untested products. I actually tried to find an example but they all seem to be completely scrubbed from the internet. Does anyone else remember the segments I'm talking about? They all started with a skeleton throwing back a bottle of pills, which rattled out between his ribs, if I recall correctly.
 
Good fucking riddance.


It's shocking he got axed before Jimmy Fallon and Seth Myers.
idk if Comcast will ever kill the tonight show or seth myers show. they have a lot of money. Disney is more of the same with Jimmy Kimmel. Though disney might blink first than comcast.
 
They all started with a skeleton throwing back a bottle of pills, which rattled our between his ribs, if I recall correctly.
Here is a list of segments from the show

Sounds like Cheating Death which I do remember involved skeletons but the intro was usually him playing chess with death. There was a graphic with a skeleton taking pills though. He also did fake product placement for his parody sponsor Prescott Pharmaceuticals. He was pretty spicy about the monetization of healthcare until he got paid I guess

Anyway who is left after the rise of the Daily Show all-stars? Don’t know where Sam Bee is. Steve Carell is retired or something? Rob Cordoury and Rob Riggle are…somewhere? Nancy Walls, Larry Wilmore, Ed Helms, Lewis Black, and Mo Rocca?

These people were pretty popular 20 years ago and now most of them are just ghosts.
 
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Anyway who is left after the rise of the Daily Show all-stars? Don’t know where Sam Bee is. Steve Carell is retired or something? Rob Cordoury and Rob Riggle are…somewhere? Nancy Walls, Larry Wilmore, Ed Helms, Lewis Black, and Mo Rocca?
Mo Rocca can always fall back on CBS Sunday Morning, and NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me.
 
Jon Stewart Stuart Leibowitz unironically ruined everything for late night. Getting his dick sucked endlessly for doing the same bit every night until there was nothing else. Which is why litrul hack fraud Gutfeld beats them all in the ratings now
There is a particular degree of irony that the guy who begged Tucker Carlson to "stop hurting America" with this political TV show... ended up fucking up the nation even worse with his retarded political TV show.
 
Took what Letterman gave him and drove it into the fucking dirt, with Letterman around to see it
what a fag
Letterman, age 79, comes on as a special guest for the final taping in May '26. But something's strange. He arrives wearing face paint, and asks to be introduced as "Joker".
 
Colbert is going to end up like Kieth Oblermann: making videos on his balcony screaming about conservatives.
No, he'll either worm his way into HBO via Oliver or he'll join the podcast circuit running a rip off of Bill Maher's Club Random where he jerks off with his Hollywood friends while doing random voiceover work in animation to pay his bills. Would not be shocked if he tries to get Harvey Birdman or Birdgirl revived on Adult Swim.
 
I still remember when he first got the late show gig how absolutely lauded Stephen colbert was, in less then a year all that good will and respect was flushed down the drain. Did trump do irreversible damage to his brain, did comedy central just have better writers, is modern leftist comedy just impossible, is he just a hack? I wonder if there's a world where he just said fuck it no politics, this a celebrity talk show not a news show and he's still respected. Well I guess all talk shows did the trump shit anyway, political or not.
You can take the biden out of the skibidi but you can't take the skibidi out of the corpate hack.
Colbert's fall came when he sold his soul to Podesta in the early 2010s to get Podesta to fund his sister's failed vanity run for Congress in a deep red district she had no chance to win. He became a DNC propagandists in the mold of Glorious Godfrey that moment on.
 
Here is a list of segments from the show

Sounds like Cheating Death which I do remember involved skeletons but the intro was usually him playing chess with death. There was a graphic with a skeleton taking pills though. He also did fake product placement for his parody sponsor Prescott Pharmaceuticals. He was pretty spicy about the monetization of healthcare until he got paid I guess

Anyway who is left after the rise of the Daily Show all-stars? Don’t know where Sam Bee is. Steve Carell is retired or something? Rob Cordoury and Rob Riggle are…somewhere? Nancy Walls, Larry Wilmore, Ed Helms, Lewis Black, and Mo Rocca?

These people were pretty popular 20 years ago and now most of them are just ghosts.
Carell and Helms are still Hollywood big shots and Carell even transitioned to serious roles. Cordoury and Riggle are still out there, though Riggle seems to have semi retired (and largely stayed apolitical compared to his colleagues).
 
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