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Stephen Colbert will be the talk show's last host.
July 17, 2025
In a surprise move, CBS announced today that The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will be ending in 2026. And with it, the 'Late Show' franchise is also being retired, ending the network's decades-long history of late night programming that began in 1993. Colbert informed his viewers of the move during Thursday night's broadcast.
"The Late Show With Stephen Colbert will end its historic run in May 2026 at the end of the broadcast season," said CBS executives in a statement. "We consider Stephen Colbert irreplaceable and will retire The Late Show franchise at that time. We are proud that Stephen called CBS home. He and the broadcast will be remembered in the pantheon of greats that graced late night television. 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."
While Colbert's current contract does end at the end of 2026, the timing of the cancellation does raise questions. It comes days after Colbert criticized Paramount Global's decision to settle a lawsuit by President Donald Trump for $16 million, with him calling it a "big fat bribe." There has also been recent speculation that Skydance Media, which is acquiring Paramount Global, may not agree with Colbert's views on the current political climate.
On the other hand, CBS has already been cutting back its late night programming. 'After Midnight' was recently cancelled after host Taylor Tomlinson decided to leave the show. The late night business in general has also been on the decline in recent years.
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Comments (79)
07/21/25 at 03:47pm
@2nd Amendment
Because that form of Antifa is a lie created by the felon’s party to brainwash the lower masses into being against freedom and voting away their rights. It isn’t really Antifa restrictions anything, but actors paid by right wing extremists with foreign money to try to bring down organizations protecting freedoms. The only people that believe the act are brainwashed.
@John
The show had gotten bad and should have been canned after 4 years. It was just harping on stupid stuff that every sane person knew was crazy. It wasn’t adding anything to the conversation. It is like a lot of show that pick a topic that no reasonable person would be for, and then act all high and mighty as it points out the problems. Late night is a dying genre. With longer form interviews that are not just polished promo pieces readily available it is better as a clip show that can be shown on YouTube. Colbert was trying to be politically relevant before he became comedically relevant. It was not the time or the place. It got canned for nonpolitical reasons. It got canned for not being good.
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Because that form of Antifa is a lie created by the felon’s party to brainwash the lower masses into being against freedom and voting away their rights. It isn’t really Antifa restrictions anything, but actors paid by right wing extremists with foreign money to try to bring down organizations protecting freedoms. The only people that believe the act are brainwashed.
@John
The show had gotten bad and should have been canned after 4 years. It was just harping on stupid stuff that every sane person knew was crazy. It wasn’t adding anything to the conversation. It is like a lot of show that pick a topic that no reasonable person would be for, and then act all high and mighty as it points out the problems. Late night is a dying genre. With longer form interviews that are not just polished promo pieces readily available it is better as a clip show that can be shown on YouTube. Colbert was trying to be politically relevant before he became comedically relevant. It was not the time or the place. It got canned for nonpolitical reasons. It got canned for not being good.
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07/21/25 at 11:58am
Since little white q-tip did the exact same thing!!!
07/21/25 at 11:56am
Right on Rodentman!!!!!!
07/21/25 at 11:31am
Facts about Cancellation:
This show was cancelled because it stopped being funny years ago and viewership has continued to decline. It has been losing 40 to 50 million per year for the last few years and the ad revenues were continuing to decline which would cause it to lose even more in the future. Politics had nothing to do with it.
This show was cancelled because it stopped being funny years ago and viewership has continued to decline. It has been losing 40 to 50 million per year for the last few years and the ad revenues were continuing to decline which would cause it to lose even more in the future. Politics had nothing to do with it.
07/21/25 at 08:10am
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07/21/25 at 06:52am
There are simply no words to describe this assinine move...since when does a big mouth orange pig dictate to the media??? Paramount is a disgrace and will surely feel the outrage and backlash of this STUPIDITY. CBS may as well just shut down completely if they are to be controlled by a political party! FREE SPEECH IS ALIVE AND WELL AND S.C. WILL LIVE ON TO PROVE IT!
07/21/25 at 04:31am
The miserable show was cancelled because of $$. People rightly tired of the childish anti-Trump nonsense and viewership declined. It has nothing to do with the First Amendment. The View will be next one to go, or get sued into oblivion where it belongs. Hatred eventually is unsustainable.
07/21/25 at 04:11am
Sounds a lot like Antifa. When Antifa shows up to "protest" why do they try to restrict other people's right to Free Speech, and the Right to Peacefully Assemble?
07/21/25 at 00:02am
The same joke every night becomes unfunny!
07/20/25 at 01:17pm
@ First Amendment - But what do you think about the show being cancelled?
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