There was a solidarity show at the end of the evening on Monday evening as The late show The comrades of the host Stephen Colbert joined him after CBS said that he had canceled his program in 2026.
Thursday’s announcement was encountered by a shock as well as serious criticisms with great suggesting that it was another concession to the American president Donald Trump by the network and his parent company, Paramount Global, on the statements according to which his current current business program 60 minutes Selectively published an interview with its electoral rival in 2024, Kamala Harris.
Colbert has been very critical of Trump for years and has been part of Paramount to have accepted an American regulation of $ 16 million with the president earlier this month for a trial he brought against the company.
The settlement surprised many legal experts, who considered the costume as a chance of success before the courts.
Trump said the regulations were paid to him on Tuesday, although money was allocated to his future presidential library.
CBS and Colbert announced the news of Late showThursday, but Colbert took advantage of it in the opening monologue on Monday evening to question the motivation for the decision.
He joked by saying that “cancel culture had gone too far” but said that he could now share his “without eyeshadow” opinions from Trump.
“I don’t care,” joked Colbert about the president, who was a Late show Invited during his first electoral campaign in 2015, which was also the inaugural year of Colbert on the program.
The host approached his own “puffed” criticism of the colony, which he had done on the days before the announcement of the cancellation. Although he did not explicitly link the two events together, he wondered how it could be a “financial decision” when his program was the best rated in the end of the evening category. (Although points of sale such as the Wall Street Journal stressed that despite its high notes, the show is no longer profitable.)
Look | Colbert addresses the Killing OFF ‘of CBS in his program in the opening of the monologue:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vizeglavk8o
Colbert recognized the potential network constraints – in particular after the payment of several million dollars – but also mentioned how Trump, in an article on Truth Social, celebrated the cancellation of the program.
“I love the fact that Colbert was dismissed,” wrote Trump.
“His talent was even less than his notes. I hear that Jimmy Kimmel is the next one. To even less talent than Colbert! Greg Gutfeld is better than all combined, including moron on NBC which ruined the little other thing Tonight show. “”
Colbert’s response to Trump on Monday evening: “Go ahead-K yourself.”
Questions are on the question of whether the cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s late program was politically motivated or purely financial. Colbert alluded to a “bridge pot” linked to a Trump trial and a company agreement.
Stewart Savages CBS, Trump
Apart from Colbert, The Daily ShowJon Stewart made the hardest comments for CBS.
He admitted that television at the end of the evening had trouble: “We all exploit a successful kiosk inside a tour of the turn,” he joked.
But he said that CBS “had lost the benefit of the doubt” after the regulation, that others in the network and through industry criticized and linked to the merger awaiting global paramount with the Skydance cinema and television studio, which needs the approval of the Federal Communications Commission.
Look | Stewart Slams CBS in Daily Show Monologue (contains blasphemies):
“Was it purely financial or perhaps the path of the slightest resistance to your $ 8 billion [US] Merming? “Said Stewart, adding that Paramount Global also owns the network for which he works, Comedy Central.
“But understand this. Really, the emissions that you are now trying to cancel, censor and control-a non-insignificant part of this value of $ 8 billion came from these King emissions,” he said before directing a choir of “Go Fk yourself” intended for businesses, advertisers and law firms that “fold the knee”.
A little love of Letterman?
Colbert first plunged his toes into the end of evening waters alongside Stewart The Daily Show From 1999 to 2005, before launching his own central show comedy, The Colbert reportwhich lasted 10 years. He finally won his current concert after the original Late show Host, David Letterman, retired.
Although Letterman made no official declaration, he seemed to take a stand on Monday.
A 20 -minute video appeared on its YouTube channel, with a montage of clips featuring CBS on CBS Late show with David Letterman Over the years.
Look | Letterman laughs at CBS over the years:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rv36xkqojm
Letterman launched the venerable talk show in 1993, moving to CBS of NBC, where he had hosted Late night with David Lettermanbroadcast after The Tonight Show for 11 years.
In NBC, Jimmy Fallon joked Monday evening that he was still the host of The Tonight Show“At least for tonight.”
Fallon applauded Colbert’s race as Late show The host, but has taken a lighter, joker tone that the boycotts could make CBS lose millions of viewers, as well as “dozens of hundreds of looks on Paramount more”.
The host Jimmy Kimmel is currently on summer break from his show on ABC, although he reacted to the situation on Instagram last week, saying: “FK you and all your sheldons CBS”, referring to the Sheldon Cooper character on the sitcoms CBS Big Bang theory And Young sheldon.
Colbert, however, has no love of an end -of -evening animator (end) the best rated (end of the end): Greg Gutfeld of Fox News Channel, which Trump congratulated in his article celebrating the cancellation of Colbert, and which welcomes the series Gutfeld!
Gutfeld rejected the assertions that Colbert was censored, saying that CBS is “free to dismiss someone who pits a market as if he had taken a dumping ground in the product section”.
He also praised that his program draws higher notes than that of Colbert (although this could also be due to the fact that his program will be broadcast about an hour and a half before the main end of the evening programs).
It should not be surprising that Gutfeld, a right -wing actor and commentator, took swipes on Colbert, because Fox News Channel is generally favorable to Trump.
But as Stewart noted in his diatribe, Trump also continues Rupert Murdoch, whose News Corp has both Fox News and the Wall Street Journal, on the history of the latest publication on a letter that the president would have written in 2003 To the disappointing sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
CBS cancels the late program with Stephen Colbert after 33 years on the antenna. Host Stephen Colbert announced to the public during a recording Thursday, just a few days after speaking against Paramount Global, the mother company of CBS.
