{"id":438060,"date":"2026-01-28T06:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T06:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/438060\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T06:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T06:30:07","slug":"stephen-colbert-reveals-the-late-show-final-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/438060\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert Reveals \u2018The Late Show\u2019 Final Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tWith four months left to go until the finale of The Late Show With\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/stephen-colbert\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Colbert<\/a>, the host reflected on his long-running tenure on the show and revealed its last day on air. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tWhen appearing on Late Night With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/seth-meyers\/\" id=\"auto-tag_seth-meyers\" data-tag=\"seth-meyers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seth Meyers<\/a> for Tuesday\u2019s episode, Colbert said, \u201cIt feels real now. I mean, I know it was real, but now there\u2019s four months left.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cThe shows are fun to do, but what I really love is the people,\u201d he elaborated, pointing out how he\u2019s known his shoemaker, Tom Purcell, since 1988. \u201cWe\u2019ve all been together forever. So, listen, you can do comedy in a lot of different places. There\u2019s no place like the Ed Sullivan Theater,\u201d Colbert continued before addressing the Late Night audience at 30 Rock\u00a0and teasing: \u201cNo offense, there\u2019s no place that Sullivan Theater.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cBut it\u2019s really the people \u2014 that\u2019s really what I care about, and that\u2019s really what I\u2019m gonna miss more than anything, and we\u2019ll do something else together, but it feels real now. I\u2019m not thrilled with it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tDuring the interview, Colbert also revealed that after more than a decade hosting, May 21 will be the final day of The Late Show, according to both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/stephen-colbert-late-show-end-feels-real-now-1236486648\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hollywood Reporter <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/01\/the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert-final-episode-date-1236698681\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIn July, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/cbs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CBS<\/a>\u00a0announced the The Late Show would end in May 2026, calling it a \u201cpurely a financial decision,\u201d and adding, \u201cIt is not related in any way to the show\u2019s performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tColbert began hosting\u00a0The Late Show,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-features\/stephen-colbert-late-show-rolling-stone-interview-716439\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">taking the baton<\/a>\u00a0from David Letterman, in 2015, after hosting the news satire show\u00a0The Colbert Report\u00a0on Comedy Central.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With four months left to go until the finale of The Late Show With\u00a0Stephen Colbert, the host reflected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,13398,3668,6713,348],"class_list":{"0":"post-438060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-seth-meyers","12":"tag-stephen-colbert","13":"tag-the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert","14":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}