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Stephen Colbert<\/a> has seemingly pitched himself to Netflix and Amazon following the cancellation<\/a> of The Late Show<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The late-night veteran is not shying away<\/a> from the fact that he won\u2019t have a job when his show ends in May 2026, and used the final Late Show episode before its summer hiatus<\/a> to court potential new employers.<\/p>\n

On Thursday\u2019s episode (7 August), Colbert referenced a Daily Beast story<\/a> about Vice President JD Vance<\/a> allegedly requesting that the water levels of an Ohio river be raised for a birthday boat trip.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is such an insane, spoiled-baby emperor move that I have no choice but to break out my new character: Wittle Pwince Vance,\u201d said Colbert as he put on a mask of Vance wearing a crown.<\/p>\n

Adopting a childish voice, Colbert said: \u201cHear ye, hear ye, hear ye! I want my wiver waised for my birthday! Also, I don\u2019t like how bwue the sky is \u2013 paint it wed! Now, give me juice box.\u201d<\/p>\n

Colbert then whipped off the mask, joking: \u201cNetflix, call me. I\u2019m available in June. I will also entertain offers from Amazon.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"StephenStephen Colbert holding a JD Vance mask (CBS\/ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert)<\/p>\n

The 61-year-old also used the opportunity to mockingly defend his peers, Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon, after Donald Trump claimed that they could be the next late night hosts to lose their jobs. <\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cColbert has no talent. [Jimmy] Fallon has no talent. [Jimmy] Kimmel has no talent. They\u2019re next,\u201d said Trump in a clip shown by Colbert. \u201cThey\u2019re gonna be going. I hear they\u2019re going to be going. I don\u2019t know, but I would imagine, because Colbert has better ratings than Kimmel or Fallon, you know that?\u201d<\/p>\n

The comedian responded by saying: \u201cI knew that, yeah, I knew that. But to be fair, I think we\u2019re all equally untalented. Anyway, I just want to say thank you for watching, sir, and thank you for agreeing to be in our new promo.\u201d<\/p>\n

He then showed a fake Late Show advert, which featured Trump\u2019s rants about the programme, which added that \u201cColbert is No 1 in late night. Just ask our elderly viewers\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Colbert has long been a vocal critic of Trump. His most recent spat with the president began when Colbert claimed that Paramount<\/a>\u2019s decision to pay a $16m settlement to Trump over another CBS show, 60 Minutes, amounted to a \u201cbig fat bribe\u201d.<\/p>\n

Very soon after Colbert\u2019s \u201cbribe\u201d comment, Paramount announced the cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, which will come off the air in May next year.<\/p>\n

Trump revelled in the firing of one of his loudest detractors, posting on his Truth Social platform: \u201cI absolutely love that Colbert was fired.\u201d<\/p>\n

Colbert responded by declaring that the \u201cgloves are off\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-55305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}