{"id":417176,"date":"2026-05-08T01:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T01:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/417176\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T01:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T01:23:08","slug":"stephen-colbert-to-reunite-with-letterman-kimmel-oliver-fallon-and-meyers-for-final-late-show-episodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/417176\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert to reunite with Letterman, Kimmel, Oliver, Fallon, and Meyers for final \u201cLate Show\u201d episodes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Key Points<\/p>\n

Former Late Show host David Letterman is returning as one of Stephen Colbert’s final guests.<\/p>\n

Colbert will also reunite with Jimmy Kimmel, John Oliver, Jimmy Fallon, and Seth Meyers.<\/p>\n

The series is set to end on May 21.<\/p>\n

They’re no pope<\/a>, but these guys will do.<\/p>\n

As Stephen Colbert<\/a> prepares to say goodbye to The Late Show<\/a>, he’s set to reunite with his predecessor and his former podcast cohosts.<\/p>\n

Ahead of his final show on May 21, Colbert will kick off his second to last week on Monday, May 11, by welcoming fellow late-nights hosts Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, and John Oliver, a.k.a. the Strike Force Five<\/a>. During the 2023 WGA strike, Colbert and his colleagues came together for a 12-episode podcast series, with the proceeds going to their employees, who were out of work as their shows went dark.<\/p>\n

Then, on May 14, Colbert will be joined by original Late Show host David Letterman, who passed the franchise on to Colbert upon his retirement in 2015.<\/p>\n

\"Jimmy<\/p>\n

Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, John Oliver, Stephen Colbert, and Jimmy Fallon on the ‘Strike Force Five’ podcast
Credit: strike force five<\/p>\n

Last summer, CBS announced<\/a> the cancellation of Colbert’s iteration and the end of the show’s historic 33-year run. “We consider Stephen Colbert irreplaceable and will retire The Late Show franchise at that time,” the network said in a statement, adding that the surprising move was “purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night.”<\/p>\n

Reports have suggested that the network was losing upward of $40 million a year on the production. Many skeptics, however, have pointed to Skydance Media acquiring Paramount Global, the parent company of CBS, as a cause, saying the new leadership wanted to stay out of the crossfire of President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with our EW Dispatch newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Letterman recently made headlines with his claim that Colbert was “dumped”<\/a> so that he didn’t make any more “trouble” for CBS. “I’m just going to go on record as saying: They’re lying,” Letterman declared in a New York Times interview on Tuesday. “Let me just add one other thing… They’re lying weasels.”<\/p>\n

In addition to Letterman and the Strike Force Five crew, the penultimate week of Late Show guests will include Pedro Pascal, Billy Crystal, Ina Garten, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Tom Hanks.<\/p>\n

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