Colbert, 61, who\u2019s fronted the talk show since taking over from David Letterman<\/a> in 2015, shared the network\u2019s decision during Thursday\u2019s broadcast. <\/a><\/p>\n \u201cNext year will be our last season. The network will be ending The Late Show in May,\u201d the comedian announced, causing the studio audience to boo loudly. \u201c Yeah, I share your feelings. It\u2019s not just the end of our show, but it\u2019s the end of The Late Show on CBS. I\u2019m not being replaced. This is just all going away.\u201d<\/p>\n The network has since confirmed the news, describing Colbert as \u201cirreplaceable\u201d and insisting the move was a \u201cfinancial decision\u201d and \u201cnot related in any way to the show\u2019s performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount.\u201d<\/p>\n Still, celebrities and high-profile figures, including Severance star Adam Scott<\/a> and producer\/director Ben Stiller<\/a>, as well as Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, have lashed out at the decision, with the former calling it \u201cabsolute bulls***.\u201d <\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/p>\n Stephen Colbert’s (middle) late-night show on CBS has been canceled (Getty)<\/p>\n \u201cLove you Stephen. This is absolute bulls***, and I for one am looking forward to the next 10 months of this show,\u201d Scott commented on Instagram. <\/p>\n \u201cSorry to hear @CBS is canceling one of the best shows they have,\u201d Stiller wrote on X. \u201cWishing all the people who work so hard on that show all the best @colbertlateshow.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Democratic politician Warren, a frequent Colbert guest, questioned CBS\u2019 motives, demanding that \u201cAmerica deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cCBS canceled Colbert\u2019s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump \u2013 a deal that looks like bribery,\u201d she suggested on X, alongside a clip from Colbert\u2019s show in which he denounced Paramount\u2019s settlement. <\/p>\n \u201cAs someone who\u2019s always been a proud employee of this network, I am offended. And I don\u2019t know if anything will ever repair my trust in this company,\u201d the host said in an earlier segment, quipping, \u201cbut just taking a stab at it, I\u2019d say $16 million would help.\u201d<\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/p>\n Elizabeth Warren questioned CBS’s motives behind the cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s show (SenWarren\/X)<\/p>\n Fellow late-night host Jimmy Kimmel came to Colbert\u2019s defense, writing in an Instagram Story: \u201cLove you, Stephen. F*** you and all your Sheldons, CBS.\u201d His words appear to be a nod towards the CBS show The Big Bang Theory, which has spawned several spin-offs<\/a>, including Young Sheldon and Georgie and Mandy’s First Marriage. Another spin-off, Stuart Fails to Save the Universe, was announced earlier this month.<\/p>\n \u201cI am so upset about this. I need more information. We love you,\u201d Katie Couric commented on Instagram, while Snow White star Rachel Zegler agreed: \u201cI am extremely sad. I adore you, Stephen.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe greatest to ever do it,\u201d Grammy-winning artist Jon Batiste added. He additionally shared a clip of Colbert\u2019s monologue to his Instagram Story, alongside a goat and broken heart emoji.<\/p>\n \u201cMy admiration and appreciation for you is bottomless. Excited to see what other brilliance you put into the world,\u201d said The 40-Year-Old Virgin director Judd Apatow. In a separate post shared from his Instagram account, the prominent director shared a photo from the time he was a guest on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert<\/a>. <\/p>\n \u201cI so admire your endless comedic brilliance and generosity of spirit. Thank you!\u201d Apatow said. \u201cI will miss the show but am excited to see what magic you will create now that you are set free.\u201d<\/p>\n The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will air one final season before officially coming to an end in May 2026. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-6532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Stephen](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Adam-Scott-Stephen-Colbert-and-Ben-Stiller.jpeg\")
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