Jamie Lee Curtis Thinks Colbert’s Cancellation Isn’t Just About Ratings — & Her Words Are Chilling - Elderly poop-yogurt saleswoman and trans-kid enjoyer notices things; is not afraid to name them.

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Jamie Lee Curtis Thinks Colbert’s Cancellation Isn’t Just About Ratings — & Her Words Are Chilling
Maggie Clancy
Sat, July 19, 2025 at 12:55 PM EDT
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Jamie Lee Curtis has a sharp eye for patterns. And this week, she’s spotting one most people would rather not say out loud.

After CBS announced that The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will end in May 2026, the Oscar winner was blunt. “It’s bad,” she told the Associated Press. “He’s a great, great guy. They just cut NPR and, you know, public broadcasting. Yes, they’re trying to silence people. But that won’t work. We will just get louder.” It wasn’t just a statement of support. It was a warning, especially given everything else shaking out with media over the past week.

Colbert’s show is still number one in its time slot. CBS says the decision was financial, citing rising production costs and shrinking ad revenue across late night, per CNN. But the timeline is hard to ignore. Paramount, CBS’s parent company, is currently pushing through a high-stakes merger with Skydance Media, led by David Ellison — a longtime Trump ally. That merger still needs sign-off from the Trump administration. Just days before Colbert’s cancellation was announced, CBS settled a lawsuit with Trump and agreed to allocate $16 million to his future presidential library. Trump celebrated the move online and hinted that other late-night hosts could be next.

So no, this isn’t just about the money. And Curtis knows it.

Her reference to NPR and PBS wasn’t casual either. Just days before Colbert’s announcement, the House passed a $9 billion rescission package that stripped $1.1 billion in funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting — effectively cutting off federal support for NPR, PBS, and their member stations. NPR’s CEO called it an “irreversible loss.” PBS warned it could force small, rural, and tribal stations off the air.

This is what Curtis is talking about. First, the local stations. Then the national ones. One public institution after another being chipped away. And in the background, a steady push to control which voices are heard — and which ones are quietly written out of the picture.

It’s not her first time saying so. After Trump won the 2024 election, Curtis — whose daughter Ruby is transgender — posted a message to other parents who felt scared for their children’s futures. “Many fear their rights will be impeded and denied,” she wrote. “Gay and trans people will be more afraid… Me included.” She encouraged people to keep showing up, to fight back however they could. “That’s what it means to be an American.”

That same energy is showing up here. Curtis isn’t interested in playing the neutral game. She’s paying attention to who gets cut, who gets funded, and who gets pushed to the margins under the guise of “cost-cutting.”


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And she’s not alone. The Writers Guild has called on the New York Attorney General to investigate whether Colbert’s cancellation was politically motivated. Nathan Fielder, who is Jewish, publicly accused Paramount+ of erasing uncomfortable Jewish content after the platform quietly pulled a Nathan for You episode centered on Holocaust education. He addressed the move on his HBO series The Rehearsal, framing it as part of a broader discomfort with politically challenging material. In both cases, the rationale was vague. The result wasn’t.

Curtis isn’t making noise for the sake of it. She’s flagging the erosion of public platforms, brick by brick. It’s not always dramatic. Sometimes it looks like paperwork and press releases. Sometimes it looks like your favorite show disappearing — or your favorite talk show host from the ’90s having her citizenship threatened. But the impact is the same.
 
Colbert was the most expensive Late Night format show, and he didn't at all accomplish what CBS wanted him to when they hired him. When Letterman handed the reigns over, the average age of his viewership was 60. Ten years later, Colbert, brought to get young people into Late Night again, has (had) an average viewership age of 68.

Forget the fact that the show's stuck on the streaming ghetto of Paramount+, the format itself is antiquated and best translates to getting clipped onto Youtube. And I'm sorry, >1 million views on maybe 3 clips a week doesn't make up for a >$500k production cost, per episode.

(Incidentally, if you're curious as to why Colbert was uniquely affected by TDS, his Trump bits were just about the only thing on his show that regularly got those kinds of views when clipped)
 
I think I might take being murdered in the womb over enduring a striptease scene by one of the most unattractive, man-ish women in all of Hollywood.
Glad I'm not the only one who finds her distinctly unattractive. There are many women in the world who aren't very attractive (though unlike Jaimie Lee Curtis their personalities can make them so), but few of them are ever hailed as a sex symbol. So far as I can tell her status as such derives mainly from nepotistic pushing of her as such and her willingness to go topless in movies.

This is her at her heyday and I've seen shelf brackets with fewer right angles than her jaw.
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Seriously, ignore the cosmetic and contextual gender signalling and she looks like a less feminine David Bowie.

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The last time she was entertaining is when she was shaking her ass in True Lies. End of story.
Imagine being Arnold in that scene and having to be all like "damn, Jamie Curtis, you fuckin' fine, all sexy with your tight body and horrific androgynous monster face. I would totally have sex with you, both my character and the real me." when all he really wants to do is fuck another 16 year old in his dressing room. Like seriously imagine having to be Arnold and not only sit in that chair while Jamie Lee Curtis flaunts her disgusting body in front of you, the favorable lighting barely concealing her stretchmarks and leathery skin, and just sit there, take after take, hour after hour, while she perfected that dance. Not only having to tolerate her monstrous fucking visage but her haughty attitude as everyone on set tells her she's STILL GOT IT and DAMN, JAMIE LEE CURTIS LOOKS LIKE THAT?? because they're not the ones who have to sit there and watch her mannish fucking gremlin face contort into types of grimaces you didn't even know existed before that day. You've been fucking nothing but a healthy diet of blondes and supermodels and later alleged rape victims for your ENTIRE CAREER coming straight out of the boonies in Austria. You've never even seen anything this fucking disgusting before, and now you swear you can taste the sweat that's breaking out on her dimpled stomach as she sucks it in to writhe it suggestively at you, smugly assured that you are enjoying the opportunity to get paid to sit there and revel in her "statuesque (for that is what she calls herself)" beauty, the beauty she worked so hard for with personal trainers in the previous months. And then the director calls for another take, and you know you could kill every single person in this room before the studio security could put you down, but you sit there and endure, because you're fucking Arnold. You're not going to lose your future political career over this. Just bear it. Hide your face and bear it.
 
>#1 in his timeslot
>didn’t attract advertisers

Because the only people watching him are welfare dependent 30+ year olds with permanent bong tar rings around their mouths, whose entire disposable income goes to weed, funko pops and Rick and Morty tattoos.
 
Glad I'm not the only one who finds her distinctly unattractive. There are many women in the world who aren't very attractive (though unlike Jaimie Lee Curtis their personalities can make them so), but few of them are ever hailed as a sex symbol. So far as I can tell her status as such derives mainly from nepotistic pushing of her as such and her willingness to go topless in movies.
His dad Tony Curtis might roll a lot in his grave now to see how her daughter turned.
 
Colbert was fired because he was not making the company money. His influence has waned to the point that he is bordering on irrelevance. He accused his parent company of bribing Trump because they settled.

Hollywood is big mad because the show employed a bunch of people so prepare to hear about this for awhile.
Who cares if it was political, though? That's showbiz, baby. Tons of people don't have a career because they opened their mouth and said something and it got back to the people with the power to hire and fire. They shitcanned Gina Carano over politics, they chased Zegler all the way to Broadway for politics, they almost destroyed Mel over politics... what, it was never supposed to happen to certain people? too fucking bad.
 
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