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.

 

[Sonic]

haha eat shit retard

 

[DoomsdayElite]

“This is all just going away.”

And good fucking riddance to it, you weepy old fuck. Night after night of rabid, foaming-at-the-mouth TDS just doesn't draw the same numbers anymore.

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

Two Scoops killed the Late Show?

 

[TowinKarz]

There's nothing shocking about firing a fake intellectual who only appealed to decrepit boomers who can't even see or hear the TV from their bed, but don't know any other way to fall asleep, or people so far gone down a political rabbit hole that they'd consider him shooting an ICE agent live on stage to be "too accommodating to conservatives" unless he ate the poor fucker's heart as well....

That and it's been known for a long time that Skydance was going to clean house of any TDSers as soon as they were in charge.

Good riddance you freaks, and as you go to your career graves, know this: The Trump Administration you dedicated yourself to "resisting" will have outlasted you by 2 years......

 

[Peaches the Wonder Cat]

Clot shot got another one.

 

[Dan Abrams]

That's a shame. I enjoyed the vax scene.

 

[Basic Blond Boy]

“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.”

Translation: We know he is on ((the list)) and don't want to deal with the fallout, but made too quick a judgement to not realize Donald would cuck...

 

[obsdj]

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.

 

[General Emílio Médici]

In a shocking move

Shocking to fucking who? The fucking thing has been a meme for close to a decade now. Did the Vaccine Dance and Skibidi Biden not make it clear the thing was a dead horse beating to a fucking flat smear?

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

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.

I think he should be okay. May be less houses

Stephen Colbert's net worth is estimated to be approximately $75 million as of June 2025.
How he built his wealth
Colbert's wealth primarily stems from his lucrative television contracts, including his current role as host of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, which reportedly earns him an annual salary of around $15 million, according to Finance Monthly.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

CBS, however, said in a statement that “this is purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night...”
...
“This is all just going away.”

You could probably make a better show by paying an unknown comedian 1/200th the salary (0.5% of $15m = $75k), and giving him a budget worthy of MST3K KTMA-era props. Music provided by a production assistant who played band in high school.

 

[Curzon Dax-sama]

Nature is healing.

 

[Vect]

Skibidi Biden

I still don't believed that ever happened. I know it was a mass fever dream.

PLEASE TELL ME SKIBIDI BIDEN WAS A DREAM.

 

[one man party]

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

Does anyone still watch the late night shows? Genuinely asking. Not surprised he got axed, since his show is full of unwatchable woke bullshit.

 

[Dr. Buff Drinklots]

2 scoops
2 terms
1 cancellation

 

[Lovely Kin]

Good fucking riddance. He's not even a funny propagandist like the North Korean pink lady, he's just.. dull.

 

[Basic Blond Boy]

Does anyone still watch the late night shows? Genuinely asking. Not surprised he got axed, since his show is full of unwatchable woke bullshit.

Gen X and Millennials who still want it to be the Bush/Obama era when Stewart and him were kings.

 

[FieldPiece]

That's horrible. I don't know how I can cope with this great loss. I might just have to go get some ice cream and eat one, no, TWO scoops while crying under my Skibidi Biden blanket.

 

[mlanguishi]

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.