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Late-night icon Stephen Colbert and CBS's The Late Show with Stephen Colbert ended their respective runs on Thursday night – and Colbert did it his way, from opening message to the audience and viewers, to the St Elsewhere-honoring final shot We've included a recap of what went down earlier in the show below, but the finale[...]

If late-night icon Stephen Colbert thought he was going to wrap up his run on CBS's The Late Show with Stephen Colbert without some famous faces showing up in his last monologue, he was sadly mistaken It seems a lot of folks think that they should've been the final guests – in this case, Bryan Cranston,[...]

With late-night icon Stephen Colbert taking his final bow tonight, we're beginning to get some highlights from the final edition of CBS's The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Here's a look at what Colbert had to say to the audience and viewers early on, before a great compilation of late-night's finest does their part to[...]

You just have to do the show." Those were some recent thoughts from late-night legend Stephen Colbert, who bids farewell to CBS's The Late Show with Stephen Colbert tonight (at 11:35 pm ET/PT on CBS) after 11 years – and not under the best circumstances To celebrate one of late-night's biggest influences for nearly 30[...]

With late-night host Stephen Colbert set to wrap up his run next week, we're learning how CBS's The Late Show with Stephen Colbert plans on going out – at least, up until the final show As you can see from the schedule below, Colbert will be showing off the best of the worst, speaking with[...]

Why aren't people canceling Paramount+? Because you never had it in the first place?" With only nine days to go until he shuffles off CBS's late-night coil, Stephen Colbert reassembled "Strike Force Five" as his guests for Monday night's show: Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, and John Oliver As you can tell from that line[...]

If you've been following the headlines over the past 72 hours, then you know that late-night host Stephen Colbert revealed to his audience on Monday night that his interview with Texas State Representative James Talarico would not air as planned due to network concerns about retaliation from FCC chair Brendan Carr The concern was that Carr would[...]

It began on Monday night when late-night host Stephen Colbert told his audience that his interview with Texas State Representative James Talarico would not air due to network concerns about retaliation from FCC chair Brendan Carr The network's concern was that Carr would penalize CBS under the "equal time" rule, even though that doesn't apply to talk shows,[...]

It appears we have a game of "he said/broadcast network said" on our hands. On Monday night, late-night host Stephen Colbert told his audience that his interview with Texas State Representative James Talarico would not air due to network concerns about retaliation from FCC chair Brendan Carr The network's concern was that Carr would penalize CBS under the "equal[...]

On Monday night, late-night host Stephen Colbert told his audience that his interview with Texas State Representative James Talarico would not air due to network concerns about retaliation from FCC chair Brendan Carr The network's concern was that Carr would penalize CBS under the "equal time" rule, even though that doesn't apply to talk shows, and a formal[...]

Discovery and the controversial calls being made over at CBS News by Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss, late-night host Stephen Colbert shared with his audience on Monday night that his interview with Texas State Representative James Talarico would not air due to network concerns over retaliation from FCC chair Brendan Carr What makes Colbert's on-air admission even[...]

10 months after viewers learned that CBS's The Late Show with Stephen Colbert would end its run, Stephen Colbert will take to the late-night stage one last time on Thursday, May 21st Though Colbert's final month was announced alongside news of the show ending and CBS walking away from that late-night time slot moving forward, a[...]

On Wednesday night, late-night hosts Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel addressed the killing and the growing tensions in Minneapolis and across the country. Image: CBS, ABC Screencaps Colbert broke from tradition, beginning his show to both address and condemn the shooting Referring to Good's killing as "another shocking tragedy," Colbert summarized the arguments that Trump's folks have been[...]

Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, and Jon Stewart were back at their respective late-night desks on Monday night, with the hot topic being the fallout and ramifications of the Trump Administration's military attack on Venezuela to arrest President Nicolás Maduro and his wife so that the U.S (according to Trump's own words) cold unleash[...]

Is it surprising that Trump would rage-post over an episode of CBS's The Late Show with Stephen Colbert that aired on Tuesday night but actually aired on December 8th? No In fact, it seems only fitting But what he rage-posted should raise some alarms, especially from an administration that constantly plays the bully/victim card[...]

Late-night TV will be less funny when The Late Show ends its 33-year run on CBS, as well as its nearly 11-year run under host Stephen Colbert, which premiered in 2015, succeeding David Letterman after he retired from the series That doesn't mean Colbert's life as an entertainer must end as former fellow late-night host Conan O'Brien, who[...]

That's right, the White House's propaganda machine helped itself to "The Fate of Ophelia" – and now, late-night host Stephen Colbert has "Taylor Swift's" response: "I thought you hated me, but now we both can see You're just a sad wannabe "Swiftie." It's a great response and great work by Colbert's team – check it[...]

With the third season of CBS and Robert King & Michelle King's Carrie Preston-starring Elsbeth getting a special premiere on Sunday, October 12th, we're getting our first major look at what's to come with the official overview and image gallery for S03E01: "Yes, And…" Previously, we learned that late-night host Stephen Colbert will play Scotty Bristol, the late-night host[...]

With production on the third season of CBS and Robert King & Michelle King's Carrie Preston-starring Elsbeth underway ahead of its special season premiere in October (more on that in a minute), it appears late-night host Stephen Colbert will be getting a chance to sneak in some screen time before the network shuts down The Late Show[...]

Shortly after, we learned that VP Harris would be making a return visit to CBS's The Late Show with Stephen Colbert for some one-on-one interview time with host Stephen Colbert Anyone get the feeling that Trump's going to be a topic? In a clip released by the late-night show before the entire interview airs tonight,[...]

And now, she's set to join late-night host Stephen Colbert tonight during CBS's The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (11:35 pm-12:37 am, ET/PT) for what we feel will be a very headline-making interview Anyone get the feeling that Trump's going to be a topic? The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and guest Vice President Kamala Harris[...]

You have to give it to Stephen Colbert The late-night host could just be coasting it between now and May 2026, when CBS pulls the plug on late-night (at least for the foreseeable future) Instead, he's going to use his time to twist the knife on Donald Trump as much as he possibly can –[...]

Between The Late Show with Stephen Colbert host Stephen Colbert telling Donald Trump to "Go F**k Yourself" and The Daily Show host Jon Stewart telling Trump to "Go F**k Yourself" with a backing choir, Monday late-night sure sounded like a rallying cry of the resistance in the aftermath of CBS canceling The Late Show with Stephen[...]

To no one's surprise, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart took on the controversy surrounding CBS's decision to cancel The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and retire "The Late Show" brand during the uncensored opening to tonight's show What might be surprising was just how hard Stewart went at CBS, Comedy Central parent company Paramount,[...]

Shortly after the news broke that CBS was canceling The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and abandoning "The Late Show" franchise for the foreseeable future, Donald Trump found time to celebrate Stephen Colbert losing his gig in May 2026 (in-between the swollen ankles, forgetting he appointed the same Fed Chair that he now wants to fire,[...]

Stephen Colbert has no shortage of support from the late-night community in light of Paramount's decision to cancel The Late Show with the final episode set for May 2026 From his network rivals in ABC's Jimmy Kimmel and NBC's Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers to favorite guests like Adam Scott, Helen Hunt, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, you[...]

Less than 24 hours after the news hit that CBS would be ending The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in May 2026, the rumblings over the move and what it could mean on a number of levels are still a hot topic for discussions and debate Previously, Jimmy Kimmel checked in to share his feelings[...]

Between swollen ankles, forgetting he appointed the same Fed Chair that he wants to fire, and slipping deeper and deeper into the cesspool that is "The Epstein Files," Donald Trump found time to weigh in on CBS's decision to cancel The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in May 2026 To no one's surprise, Trump's a big[...]

As the fallout from CBS announcing that The Late Show with Stephen Colbert would be ending its run in May 2026 continues to be heard, many folks have a lot to say about what the future holds for late-night talk shows on network television There are also "bigger picture" concerns about the role politics has played[...]

Earlier this evening, the news broke that CBS's The Late Show with Stephen Colbert would be ending its run in May 2026, and that Paramount would be retiring "The Late Show" franchise at the same time – another nail in network late-night talk shows' coffin During the taped opening to tonight's show, Stephen Colbert addressed[...]