{"id":684597,"date":"2026-05-21T17:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T17:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/684597\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T17:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T17:39:09","slug":"watch-bruce-springsteen-rip-the-ellisons-and-cbs-on-cbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/684597\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Bruce Springsteen Rip the Ellisons and CBS on CBS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A day after Stephen Colbert and David Byrne <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/watch-david-byrne-burn-down-the-house-with-stephen-colbert\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">burned down The Late Show<\/a> with a Talking Heads cover, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/4053-bruce-springsteen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bruce Springsteen<\/a> stopped by the series\u2019 penultimate episode to perform his new protest song \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/bruce-springsteen-rallies-against-trump-and-ice-in-new-protest-song-streets-of-minneapolis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Streets of Minneapolis<\/a>.\u201d He also told the owners of CBS, the station that airs The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, to kick rocks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m here in support tonight for Stephen because you\u2019re the first guy in America who lost his show because we got a president who can\u2019t take a joke,\u201d said the Boss. \u201cAnd because Larry and David Ellison feel like they need to kiss his ass to get what they want. Anyway, Stephen, these are small-minded people. They have got no idea what the freedoms of this country are supposed to be about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, CBS said it would end The Late Show, chalking up the <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert-to-end-next-year\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cancellation<\/a> to \u201ca financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night.\u201d However, the timing of the announcement followed the Trump-supporting Ellisons\u2019 takeover of CBS parent company Paramount, and struck most as a way to silence Colbert, a frequent critic of the administration.<\/p>\n<p>The final episode of The Late Show premieres tonight (May 21). Springsteen and his E Street Band are currently <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/bruce-springsteen-and-the-e-street-band-announce-2026-us-arena-tour\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wrapping<\/a> up their Land of Hopes and Dreams arena tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A day after Stephen Colbert and David Byrne burned down The Late Show with a Talking Heads cover,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[20525,49,48,75,341,44,7604,343],"class_list":["post-684597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-bruce-springsteen","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-news","tag-textaboveleftsmall","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684597","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=684597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}