{"id":267613,"date":"2026-01-28T03:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/267613\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T03:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:21:07","slug":"stephen-colbert-announces-date-of-final-episode-of-the-late-show-stephen-colbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/267613\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert announces date of final episode of The Late Show | Stephen Colbert"},"content":{"rendered":"

The final episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert<\/a> will air on 21 May, the host has announced.<\/p>\n

Colbert, who has hosted the show since 2015, revealed the date on Monday<\/a> during a taping of NBC\u2019s Late Night With Seth Meyers to air on Tuesday night. Colbert will appear on Meyers\u2019s show as a guest.<\/p>\n

CBS had announced in July that The Late Show would come to an end<\/a> in May, more than 30 years after its debut in 1993 under David Letterman. \u201cIt\u2019s not just the end of the show. It is the end of the Late Show on CBS<\/a>. I\u2019m not being replaced \u2013 this is all just going away,\u201d Colbert told his audience in July. A date for the final episode, however, had not been revealed.<\/p>\n

News of the show\u2019s cancellation came a few weeks after CBS\u2019s parent company, Paramount, reached a $16m settlement<\/a> with Donald Trump over what he called deceptive editing of a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris. At the same time, Paramount was preparing for an $8.4bn merger with Skydance Media, which needed federal approval<\/a>. Days before the cancellation was announced, Colbert described the settlement as a \u201cbig fat bribe\u201d.<\/p>\n

CBS called the show\u2019s cancellation<\/a> \u201cpurely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night\u201d, saying it was \u201cnot related in any way to the show\u2019s performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount\u201d.<\/p>\n

But the cancellation of late night\u2019s No 1 show sparked anger and sadness among viewers, entertainers<\/a> and politicians. \u201cStephen Colbert, an extraordinary talent and the most popular late night host, slams the deal. Days later, he\u2019s fired. Do I think this is a coincidence? NO,\u201d Bernie Sanders wrote on X. Donald Trump, on the other hand, celebrated, writing on Truth Social: \u201cI absolutely love that Colbert got fired.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the intervening months, Colbert has continued to mock the Trump administration. Last week, reflecting on the first year of the president\u2019s second term, he lamented<\/a> that the president had \u201cmonopolized our attention every second of every minute of every hour of every day\u201d, with \u201csome new Trump horror\u201d always \u201cdominating the headlines\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe last year has been exhausting,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd not just for us. That\u2019s why Trump\u2019s always falling asleep.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The final episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert will air on 21 May, the host has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":["post-267613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267613","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=267613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}