{"id":655456,"date":"2026-05-08T06:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T06:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/655456\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T06:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T06:55:09","slug":"stephen-colbert-reacts-to-the-late-show-replacement-byron-allen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/655456\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert Reacts to The Late Show Replacement Byron Allen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/stephen_colbert\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Colbert<\/a> is sharing a message for his replacement.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the May 21 series finale of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/the_late_show\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Late Show<\/a>, the host shared how he reacted to learning that the long-running late night show would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1430594\/cbs-replacement-for-late-show-with-stephen-colbert-revealed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">be replaced by<\/a> comedian-turned-media-executive Byron Allen\u2019s comedy talk series Comics Unleashed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I found out, I wrote him the next morning,\u201d Stephen told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-features\/stephen-colbert-interview-late-show-end-1236585528\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> in an interview published May 7. \u201cI said, \u2018Hey, congrats. I heard you got the time. Good for you. Wouldn\u2019t it be lovely if you could drop Mr. Carson a note?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the 61-year-old was referencing Byron\u2019s legacy as the youngest comedian to ever perform on The Tonight Show when it was hosted by the late Johnny Carson in 1979.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGod bless him. I know Byron,\u201d he continued. \u201cWe got to know each other last year, actually. He\u2019s fascinating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for his thoughts on being replaced by another traditional late night comedy show? Stephen added, \u201cIt\u2019s none of my business.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert is sharing a message for his replacement. Ahead of the May 21 series finale of The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-655456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655456","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=655456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}