At least one person seems to be happy that
“The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”
will soon be no more.
Donald Trump took to his TruthSocial platform Friday morning to revel in the announcement that CBS would bring the show to a close in May.
“I absolutely love that Colbert’ got fired. His talent was even less than his ratings. I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next,“ Trump wrote. ”Has even less talent than Colbert! Greg Gutfeld [host of the Fox show “The Five”] is better than all of them combined, including the Moron on NBC who ruined the once great Tonight Show.”
CBS announced on Thursday it plans to cancel “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” calling it a “financial decision.”
“This is purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night. It is not related in any way to the show’s performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount,” the network said in a statement.
Colbert himself
addressed the sad news
to his live audience during today’s taping.
“Next year will be our last season. The network will be ending The Late Show in May,” Colbert said, which drew boos from the audience.
“Yeah, I share your feelings,” he said to the audience. “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. I do want to say that the folks at CBS have been great partners. 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.”
Despite the network’s statement, Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who was the guest on Thursday’s episode, wondered if the cancelation really came down to money and not politics.
“Just finished taping with Stephen Colbert who announced his show was cancelled,” Schiff
said in a post on X
. “If Paramount and CBS ended the Late Show for political reasons, the public deserves to know. And deserves better.”
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