{"id":659842,"date":"2026-05-09T13:14:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T13:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/659842\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T13:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T13:14:16","slug":"us-late-night-hosts-for-colbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/659842\/","title":{"rendered":"US late night hosts for Colbert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tJimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, John Oliver, Seth Meyers and David Letterman will all front on the Late Show.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Late Show with Stephen Colbert has almost run its race, with the final episode on May 21 (US).<\/p>\n<p>But there are big names ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, John Oliver and Seth Meyers will all feature on the Monday, May 11 (US) episode.<\/p>\n<p>David Letterman will also join on the Thursday, May 14 episode (US) despite his strong words issued this week to The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(Colbert) was dumped because the people selling the network to Skydance said, \u2018Oh no, there\u2019s not going to be any trouble with that guy. We\u2019re going to take care of the show. We\u2019re just going to throw that into the deal. When will the ink on the check dry?\u2019 I\u2019m just going to go on record as saying: They\u2019re lying,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me just add one other thing. They\u2019re lying weasels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Late Show with Stephen Colbert screens in Australia on 10.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/05\/stephen-colbert-strike-force-five-late-show-david-letterman-1236887370\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, John Oliver, Seth Meyers and David Letterman will all front on the Late Show.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":["post-659842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659842","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=659842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}