Stephen Colbert’s program to be retired in 2026
“The Late Show” host, Stephen Colbert, announced that his program was going to end its run next year. The audience booed this announcement. The network insisted that this move was purely financial given the challenges that this show faced with other late-night programs. Show ratings across the networks suggest lower ratings. Lower ratings contribute to a lower desire for advertisers to reach specific audiences.
From Fox News:
CBS will cancel “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” in 2026, the network announced Thursday, insisting it’s a “financial decision” and has nothing to do with a looming ownership change.
“‘THE LATE SHOW with STEPHEN COLBERT’ will end its historic run in May 2026 at the end of the broadcast season,” CBS said 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.”
CBS said it was “purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night,” adding, “It is not related in any way to the show’s performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount.”
“I found out just last night, next year will be our last season,” host Stephen Colbert told his studio audience in a video posted on Instagram. “The network will be ending ‘The Late Show’ in May.”
“It’s not just the end of our show, but it’s the end of ‘The Late Show’ on CBS. I’m not being replaced. This is all just going away,” Colbert continued.
In the opening clip released by “The Late Show,” Colbert’s audience could be heard booing the announcement.
“I do want to say that the folks at CBS have been great partners,” Colbert said. “I’m so grateful to the Tiffany network for giving me this chair and this beautiful theater to call home. And of course, I’m grateful to you, the audience, who have joined us every night in here, out there, all around the world.”
“The Late Show,” which Colbert took over from David Letterman in 2015, leaned into liberal politics in the Trump era and had became a major platform for Democratic politicians. Last month, Colbert welcomed New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani before the socialist hopeful clinched the Democratic nomination.
Additional Reading:
Wulfsohn, J. A. (2025). CBS cancels ‘The Late Show,’ Stephen Colbert to end program in May 2026. Fox News. Link.
Category: Democrats, Donald Trump, Media, Society
Well, bye.
[insert meme from Tombstone]
Done.
🤣 Excellent!
Thanks
Overdone meme is overdone….but still welcomed and liked.
Touche!
Bye, if you say ‘Bye Bye Baby, thats one of the up tempo tunes that Earl Lewis and the Channels did in 1957 on the Fury record label. Thought that I would mention that.
Bye Bye is from Nsync.
Or…
Smell ya later
Dozens of fans are disappointed. Is Kimmel next?
How about we add Seth Meyers to the mix as well.
Great minds and all that:
Trump celebrates Colbert cancellation on Truth Social: ‘Absolutely love that’ | Fox News
The late night cuck “comedians” did everything in their power to preach to smaller and smaller audiences.
We’ve moved on.
I’m just a touch bitter that it took this long.
When comedy shows pick a side they really begin to struggle. Better to go after everyone that acts a fool. The problem then becomes finding an outlet.
See my above comment about Seth Meyers. He does 30 minutes of opening monolog (mostly Trump related), less commercials, and he is proof of Trump living rent free in his gray matter container.
The other 30 min (less commercials)is filled with guests few have heard of.
Maybe they can get a job at PBS or NPR.
Sometimes I think Seth Meyers and Commissar are the same person….
Who?
Never heard of him.
I’ll just drop this right here….
I’m not certain that guy was ever funny….he comes across like a prudish nudge who tries, and fails, to be funny…
I never liked his brand of entertainment…Fallon is less annoying by a slight degree, and Kimmel is the world’s largest hypocrite…but that’s just my opinion…late night TV, actually most TV sucks balls today anyway…
Better late than never. I can’t stand that clown. Next up, please dump John Oliver. That dude’s smugness and idiocy drives me crazy.
Full transparency, I don’t actually like Gutfeld either, but at least he’s essentially correct in what he says.
I have family who watch Gutfeld religiously. Personally, I can’t stand him. They act like I’m committing blasphemy for saying so. Yes, he often is accurate in his jabs and occasionally comes out with something unique and witty, but I find him unwatchable. I watch just to hear what Tyrus (George Murdoch) is going to come out with – entertaining, brilliant, and often hysterically funny. I wish he would get his own show, or let him take over more often for Gutfeld.
This opinion of mine on Gutfeld shared recently at a “conservative” dinner caused someone to accuse me of being a “left-leaning liberal moonbat”. I was laughing too hard to be offended.
While we’re at it, please cancel Jimmy Failla too (yes, I know that is Fox and not CBS).
Maybe he and Joy Reid can hang out, ya know, like a girls day! Shopping, pedicures, manicures, etc. a regular day of beauty! Well, on second thought, Joy may need more than a day!
Oh, boo hoo.
About time.