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.”

This is a developing story. It will be updated.

 

[Edict of Expulsion]

Way to kill David Letterman's legacy.

honestly. letterman was like actual underground comedy earlier on. throwing watermelons off buildings.
kind of like a really tame sam hyde.

putting an absolute walking sack of soy of colbert was just disgusting. shows how incredibly tranny-fied and just actual cultural marxism purging rituals centres of power went through, including corporations and especially corporate media.

maga not outliving trump is an odd concept but at least for now, there's a slight break in the storm.
this is nice.

fuck colbert. if there was any justice it would be north korean style three generations getting castrated of the colberts.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

It's crazy to think that people like Colbert, Neil Degrass Tyson and Bill Nye. were basically Internet royalty in the early 2010s. And now, well... you know...

The Collapse of New Atheism I think was the first domino to fall in their reputations, before then they basically were worshipped as Gods since they constantly mocked Jesus and in the case of Bill Nye and Neil Degrasse Tyson constantly boasted that there was no God.

Bill Nye in particular held a certain cachet with millennials, as he hit the sweet spot of Reddit SCIENCE! and nostalgia (Bill Nye the Science Guy ended in 1998 but was school television fodder for years afterwards). Few people remembered or cared about The Eyes of Nye, which was more of a prototype for his later stuff (I remember watching an episode in school circa 2007, it SUCKED), and then Bill Nye Saves the World both destroyed the goodwill of the nostalgia factor and really accelerated the backlash against the Reddit SCIENCE! crowd.

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.

The modern left was wholly against Big Pharma in the Bush years and the first few years of Obama's administration, with the shift occurring around Occupy and wholly solidifying by 2021.

I would expect more of this in the future. Once the boomers are gone who will watch TV much less be able to afford the cable bill?

They say that the zoomers don't watch TV, but with programs like this, who could blame them?

I feel like the audience for traditional late-night TV (or at least, the potential demographic) drifted over to stuff like Joe Rogan, who both finds people that aren't just the usual pre-approved celebrities, as well as not being afraid of going off-script, as the celebrity appearances on late-night TV were semi-rehearsed (the questions and answers were more or less written and gone over before the show).

 

[PS2 Nishiki]

Get fucked faggot.

 

[The Lurky 1]

 

[greenthrowaway]

Hell has an opening for late show host, Colbert is rumored to be the favorite for the job.

 

[Mr. Zed da Robot Poon Fed]

Jimmy Kimmel is even worse in my opinion and he's been in quasi-hiatutis for a long time now. That dude needs to go. Get rid of John Stewart too. Who would've thought out of all these guys Bill Maher would end up being the most 'reasonable' in the end.

All these fucking dumbass talk shows need to go. John Oliver, Seth Meyers, even Bill Fucking Maher.

 

[The handsome tard]

Dont let the door hit you on the way out, Colbert.

Oh who am I kidding, I hope it still hits you either way.

 

[Dude Snakes]

He’s just going to end up getting a show on Netflix.

Ah let me guess he will show up in Cuties 2.

 

[Preacher ✝]

the superior late late show with Craig Ferguson

Easily the best of the late night hosts from the modern era. Shine on you cheeky monkeys.

 

[Pierre D'Olnique]

I still mix up Colbert and Oliver, goes to show how little I care about burger talk shows. When will COME ON, IT'S <%CURRENTYEAR> get canned?

 

[Troonos]

So much evil garbage has come out of the (((Daily Show))). Let's put Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, John Oliver, Hasan Minhaj, Trevor Noah, and Michelle Wolff in a locked room with sharpened pool cues and tell them that the sole survivor can be exiled to Israel forever.

 

[A-Stump]

I liked him in Strangers with Candy

 

[Honey's Dead]

LOL good riddance.

 

[Ultra Negro]

Next year can't get here soon enough.

 

[Mukhrani]

The modern left was wholly against Big Pharma in the Bush years and the first few years of Obama's administration, with the shift occurring around Occupy and wholly solidifying by 2021.

I watched the shift happen in real time among normie friends. It started on Facebook - there was this astroturfed anti-anti-vax content constantly being churned out and shared in Trump's first term. Shitlibs can't resist the opportunity to sneer at the rubes, and endless reams of memes and smugposts were spun out about how retarded, backwards, and anti-science these moms who didn't want to give their kids the measles vax were, and about how the return of a disease with a rock-bottom mortality rate was somehow going to be the end of the world.

I remember one of the moments that I realized the 'left' had turned for good was when I saw people seething at antivaxxers because there was a measles outbreak in the Philippines, completely ignoring the fact that Sanofi Pasteur had just killed a bunch of kids. They rolled out their Dengvaxia vaccine in the Philippines before the final phases of testing had wrapped up and started to mass-vaccinate school children. The vaccine was given to children who had never had Dengue fever, and apparently doing this often resulted in a far more severe form of the disease with a much higher fatality rate due to heavy internal bleeding and organ failure. Sanofi Pasteur informed the government of this only after close to a million kids had already been vaccinated.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

One less piece of liberal propaganda.

 

[Elwood P. Dowd]

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.

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.

Stumbled across this on Twitter, not exactly the same thing, but on the same theme.

 

[Desktop User2]

They passed on Craig Ferguson for the faggot that eventually killed it all... it´s funny because he made his career as a caricature of a neocon on his Colbert Report just to become a caricature of a liberal, only unironically this time basically becoming what he was mocking before.

The "I dont care about gas prices because I own a Tesla" bit will endure tho.

 

[Positron]

Ben Collins ("Tim Onion") think Trump fired Colbert

 

[Lovely Kin]

I still mix up Colbert and Oliver, goes to show how little I care about burger talk shows. When will COME ON, IT'S <%CURRENTYEAR> get canned?

Most of the talk show hosts do look the same. I can't even tell them apart.