{"id":223186,"date":"2026-01-02T09:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T09:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/223186\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T09:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T09:25:09","slug":"stephen-colbert-has-3-stinging-words-for-the-corporate-bosses-who-canceled-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/223186\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert Has 3 Stinging Words For The Corporate Bosses Who Canceled Him"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cLate Show<\/a>\u201d host Stephen Colbert<\/a> hit back at his corporate bosses on Wednesday when asked what \u201cmajor lesson\u201d he learned in 2025. <\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t trust billionaires,\u201d Colbert told CNN<\/a>\u2019s Anderson Cooper<\/a> and Andy Cohen<\/a> during their New Year\u2019s Eve broadcast. \u201cThey don\u2019t get rich by finding that money on the side of the road, brother.\u201d <\/p>\n

CBS announced the end<\/a> of the \u201cLate Show\u201d last summer, although it will remain on the air through May of this year. <\/p>\n

That company insisted it was \u201cpurely a financial decision\u201d and claimed<\/a> the show \u2015 which is number one in its time slot \u2015 was losing $40 million a year. <\/p>\n

But most observers cast doubt on that number, with fellow late night TV host Jimmy Kimmel calling the corporate claims about Colbert \u201cobviously lies<\/a>.\u201d <\/p>\n

Instead, many believe political pressure<\/a> played a role.<\/p>\n

The decision came as corporate parent Paramount was trying to complete a merger with Skydance Media \u2015 which required approval from the FCC \u2015 and after President Donald Trump<\/a> had repeatedly attacked Colbert and called for him to be canceled<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The deal was approved<\/a> the following week, putting David Ellison \u2015 son of billionaire Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, who reportedly bankrolled the merger<\/a> \u2015 in charge of the combined entity. <\/p>\n

In the meantime, Colbert hasn\u2019t held back. He\u2019s repeatedly called out<\/a> the company that fired him \u2015 including last month, when it launched a $108 billion bid for a hostile takeover of Warner Bros. <\/p>\n

\u201cWow. I gotta say, if my company\u2019s got that kind of green, I\u2019m sure they can afford to uncancel one of their best shows,\u201d Colbert cracked<\/a>.<\/p>\n

See his full New Year\u2019s Eve CNN interview below. His comments about the billionaires come about 4 minutes in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cLate Show\u201d host Stephen Colbert hit back at his corporate bosses on Wednesday when asked what \u201cmajor lesson\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[114949,969,93,61,60,3484,1138,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-223186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-anderson-cooper","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-jimmy-kimmel","14":"tag-stephen-colbert","15":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}