CBS said Thursday that he plans to finish “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” in May 2026, qualifying it as a “purely financial decision in a challenging context on night television”.
The president of the United States, Donald Trumpintervened on the announcement of CBS that will cancel the program of night interviews with Stephen Colbertand the president has hope that Jimmy Kimmel Be the next one to be fired.
CBS said Thursday to finish “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” In May 2026, qualifying it as a “purely financial decision in a challenging context on night television.”
“I love to dismiss Colbert. His talent was even less than his audience,” Trump wrote in a social truth publication on Friday morning. “I heard that Jimmy Kimmel is the following. He has even less talent than Colbert!”
The president then praised the Fox News night comedian, Greg Gutfeld, of whom Trump said “it is better than all of them together, including the NBC idiot who ruined the once great Tonight Show”, referring to Jimmy Fallon.
CBS’s decision to cancel Stephen Colbert program
CBS’s decision to withdraw Colbert from the air occurred two weeks after Global Paramount He announced that he had agreed to pay Trump 16 million dollars to resolve his demand, claiming that an “60 minute” interview with Kamala Harris was misleadingly edited. The announcement of the cancellation of “The Late Show” occurred three days after Colbert declared in his program that the agreement with the CBS parent company It was “a substantial bribery”claiming that Paramount made the payment to obtain the approval of the Trump administration to merge with Skydance Media.
“As someone who has always been a proud employee of this chain, I feel offended, and I don’t know if something can restore my confidence in this company,” Colbert joked on his opening monologue on July 14. “But, as proof, I would say that 16 million dollars would be enough.”
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