The host aired the classic Vince Guaraldi song during a segment, a move that he said could result in a lawsuit<\/p>\n
\n\tDuring the final episode of The Late Show, host Stephen Colbert<\/a> purposely used copyrighted music during a segment, a move that could potentially cost his former bosses at CBS a lot of dough if the music was unauthorized, and the usage were to end in a lawsuit.<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cPeanuts<\/a> is a powerful brand and corporation in and of itself. Anyone illegally using that music is going to have to pay through the nose,\u201d he said, before addressing his band leader, Louis Cato. \u201cLouis, Louis! Is the band right now playing the same Peanuts music I just said people were being sued for, for using without permission? Is that what you\u2019re doing?\u201d The band was indeed launching into the familiar Vince Guaraldi song. \u201cOh no, I hope this doesn\u2019t cost CBS any money!\u201d Colbert said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \n\tThe Late Show\u00a0was canceled in July 2025 after CBS and its parent company Paramount settled a $16 million lawsuit<\/a> with\u00a0President Donald Trump<\/a>.\u00a0CBS cited<\/a>\u00a0the cancellation was a \u201cpurely a financial decision.\u201d However, many speculated that Paramount killed the show to\u00a0curry favor<\/a>\u00a0with Trump \u2014 Colbert has been a vocal critic \u2014 and the FCC to help secure the merger between Paramount and Skydance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The host aired the classic Vince Guaraldi song during a segment, a move that he said could result…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,251356,3668,6713,348],"class_list":["post-686019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-peanuts","tag-stephen-colbert","tag-the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686019","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=686019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}