{"id":439845,"date":"2026-05-22T10:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T10:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/439845\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T10:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T10:13:12","slug":"stephen-colbert-uses-copyrighted-peanuts-music-during-finale-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/439845\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert Uses Copyrighted &#8216;Peanuts&#8217; Music During Finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the final episode of The Late Show, host <a id=\"auto-tag_stephen-colbert\" href=\"http:\/\/au.rollingstone.com\/t\/stephen-colbert\/\" data-tag=\"stephen-colbert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">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 unauthorised, and the usage were to end in a lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a id=\"auto-tag_peanuts\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/peanuts\/\" data-tag=\"peanuts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Peanuts<\/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 dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">LOL Stephen Colbert is making his band play licensed music during his final show so CBS \u2013 who fired him \u2013 will get sued and have to pay millions<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone illegally using that music is gonna have to pay through the nose\u2013\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[band starts playing]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh no! I hope this doesn\u2019t cost\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mOeZMXEZpv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/mOeZMXEZpv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Spencer Althouse (@SpencerAlthouse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpencerAlthouse\/status\/2057673496625287188?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">May 22, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Love Music?<\/p>\n<p class=\"observer-desc mb-2\"> Get your daily dose of everything happening in Australian\/New Zealand music and globally.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/spinner.gif\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" alt=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p>The Late Show\u00a0was canceled in July 2025 after CBS and its parent company Paramount settled a $16 million lawsuit with\u00a0President <a href=\"http:\/\/au.rollingstone.com\/t\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a>.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/au.rollingstone.com\/tv\/tv-news\/stephen-colbert-late-show-will-end-2026-financial-decision-80166\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CBS cited<\/a>\u00a0that it was a \u201cpurely a financial decision.\u201d However, many speculated that Paramount killed the show to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/au.rollingstone.com\/tv\/tv-news\/stephen-colbert-cancellation-reasonable-trump-pressure-86605\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">curry favour<\/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<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-news\/stephen-colbert-peanuts-music-cbs-dig-late-show-finale-1235567324\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Rolling Stone US<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During the final episode of The Late Show, host Stephen Colbert purposely used copyrighted music during a segment,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69,48265,5459,14656],"class_list":["post-439845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-peanuts","tag-stephen-colbert","tag-the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}