{"id":22195,"date":"2025-07-19T20:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T20:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/22195\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T20:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T20:09:09","slug":"jamie-lee-curtis-responds-to-colbert-cancellation-with-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/22195\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Lee Curtis Responds to Colbert Cancellation With Warning"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJamie Lee Curtis<\/a> has a sharp eye for patterns<\/a>. And this week, she\u2019s spotting one most people would rather not say out loud.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter CBS announced that The Late Show with Stephen Colbert<\/a> will end in May 2026, the Oscar winner was blunt. \u201cIt\u2019s bad,\u201d she told the Associated Press<\/a>. \u201cHe\u2019s a great, great guy. They just cut NPR and, you know, public broadcasting. Yes, they\u2019re trying to silence people. But that won\u2019t work. We will just get louder.\u201d It wasn\u2019t just a statement of support. It was a warning, especially given everything else shaking out with media over the past week. <\/p>\n

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\n\tColbert\u2019s show is still number one in its time slot. CBS says the decision was financial, citing rising production costs and shrinking ad revenue across late night, per CNN<\/a>. But the timeline is hard to ignore. Paramount, CBS\u2019s parent company, is currently pushing through a high-stakes merger with Skydance Media, led by David Ellison \u2014 a longtime Trump ally. That merger still needs sign-off from the Trump administration. Just days before Colbert\u2019s cancellation was announced, CBS settled a lawsuit with Trump and agreed to allocate $16 million to his future presidential library. Trump celebrated the move online and hinted that other late-night hosts could be next.<\/p>\n

\n\tSo no, this isn\u2019t just about the money. And Curtis knows it.<\/p>\n

\n\tHer reference to NPR and PBS wasn\u2019t casual either. Just days before Colbert\u2019s announcement, the House passed a $9 billion rescission package<\/a> that stripped $1.1 billion in funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting \u2014 effectively cutting off federal support for NPR, PBS, and their member stations. NPR\u2019s CEO called it an \u201cirreversible loss.\u201d PBS warned it could force small, rural, and tribal stations off the air.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis is what Curtis is talking about. First, the local stations. Then the national ones. One public institution after another being chipped away. And in the background, a steady push to control which voices are heard \u2014 and which ones are quietly written out of the picture.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s not her first time saying so. After Trump won the 2024 election, Curtis \u2014 whose daughter Ruby is transgender \u2014 posted a message to other parents who felt scared for their children\u2019s futures<\/a>. \u201cMany fear their rights will be impeded and denied,\u201d she wrote. \u201cGay and trans people will be more afraid\u2026 Me included.\u201d She encouraged people to keep showing up, to fight back however they could. \u201cThat\u2019s what it means to be an American.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThat same energy is showing up here. Curtis isn\u2019t interested in playing the neutral game. She\u2019s paying attention to who gets cut, who gets funded, and who gets pushed to the margins under the guise of \u201ccost-cutting.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd she\u2019s not alone. The Writers Guild has called on the New York Attorney General to investigate whether Colbert\u2019s cancellation was politically motivated. Nathan Fielder, who is Jewish, publicly accused Paramount+ of erasing uncomfortable Jewish content after the platform quietly pulled a Nathan for You<\/a> episode centered on Holocaust education. He addressed the move on his HBO series The Rehearsal, framing it as part of a broader discomfort with politically challenging material. In both cases, the rationale was vague. The result wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

\n\tCurtis isn\u2019t making noise for the sake of it. She\u2019s flagging the erosion of public platforms, brick by brick. It\u2019s not always dramatic. Sometimes it looks like paperwork and press releases. Sometimes it looks like your favorite show disappearing \u2014\u00a0or your favorite talk show host from the \u201990s having her citizenship threatened<\/a>. But the impact is the same.<\/p>\n

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