CBS is ending ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’ next year

The settlement – and Paramount’s pending merger with Skydance Media – spurred speculation about Colbert’s future at CBS. Colbert, after all, is one of the staunchest critics of Trump on television.

Colbert alluded to the online worrying about his fate when he returned from vacation on Monday night. He condemned the Paramount settlement on air, likening it to a “big fat bribe,” and he joked that his new mustache would protect him from the corporation: “Okay, okay, but how are they going to put pressure on Stephen Colbert… if they can’t find him?”

CBS, however, said in a statement that “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.”

Fourth thread on this topic, mein talky Fuhrer.

Good lord, OP. Did you really think you would be the first with this news?

A Kathy Griffin video went viral recently where she told of going on his show to discuss her upcoming Carnegie Hall show. But he ambushed her with just talking about the Trump severed head scandal, which she established up front she no longer wanted to discuss. She said tears welled-up in her eyes and he kept pushing.

R3. Yes.

I used to really like Stephen Colbert, but one day it soured.

I find him phony and creepy. I guess the broader audience does as well.

Bye, bye.

R4, she’s a sociopath. Fuck her.