The CBS is an ax at the “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” in May 2026, the host told the audience in a taping on Thursday.
This announcement came two days after Colbert spoke Against Paramount Global, its network CBS’s original company, Settle with President Donald Trump More than the story of “60 minutes”.
“I am angry,” Colbert said in his monologue on Monday night. “I don’t know if anything – anything – will repair my faith in this company. But, just stabbing it, I would say that $ 16 million will help.”
He said that the technical name in the legal circles for the deal was “Big Fat bribe”.
Paramount and CBS officials said in a statement that the cancellation is “purely a financial decision against a challenging background. It is not related to the show’s performance, materials or other matters in paramount in any way.”
Nielsen’s most recent ratings show Nelbert as winning their timelot, with about 2.417 million spectators in 41 new episodes. It also said that his late night show was the only one to achieve the audience so far this year.
And this week, “The Late Show” was nominated for the Primatime Amy Award for the sixth time for the excellent talk show. It also won the Pebody Award in 2021.
The news of the cancellation of the show was also announced from CBS in a press release on Thursday, with a link to a clip of Colbert announced on Instagram.
The comedian and TV personality began by telling the audience that he was sharing anything that he had learned before the night, “Our last season will be our last season. The network will end the late show in May … It is the end of the late show on CBS. I am not being replaced. All this is just going away.”
Colbert’s “bribe” reference was for the pending sale of paramount for Skydance Media, which requires the approval of the Trump administration. Critics of the $ 16 million deal ended Trump’s trial over the editing of their newsmagzine’s interview, which was finally suggested with a final decline with Democratic Presidential candidate Kamla Harris that it was mainly to clean a barrier for that sale.
Colbert hosted the Trump Basti attack a week before John Stewart after “The Daily Show”. Stewart Comedy works for Central, which is owned by paramount.
Colbert worked in 2015 with Stewart after becoming a big name from David Letterman in “The Late Show”, Comedy and News Satire.
Alicia Ransilio and Andrew Dalton, Associated Press
