Ding-Dong, the Bore is Gored! CBS cancels Colbert!
In a delightful surprise, CBS announced Thursday that “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” will be canceled at the end of next season, in May 2026.
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By “Huckabee” pop culture guru Pat Reeder
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In a delightful surprise, CBS announced Thursday that “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” will be canceled at the end of next season, in May 2026. I’m amazed they’re keeping it on that long. CBS claimed it’s purely a “financial decision” and lavished praise on Colbert as an icon in the late night pantheon of greats and “irreplaceable,” which is only true because no network in its right mind would want to find another Colbert. I think they meant “insufferable.” But it’s true that he’s not being replaced since they’re also killing the long-running “Late Night” franchise entirely, Colbert having crashed it so badly. I suggest replacing it with reruns of “Gunsmoke.”
Colbert also made an on-air announcement, heaping gratitude on “the Tiffany network,” which just days before he had accused of bribing Trump with a $16 million lawsuit settlement to protect the merger of CBS parent Paramount Global with Skydance Media. I assume this must have the gals of “The View” sweating bullets over telling their ABC bosses to go (BLEEP) themselves when they were asked to tone down their deranged anti-Trump rants.