Inside Colbert's Success

Inside Stephen Colbert’s post-‘Late Show’ plans as talk show comes to a close

While wrapping the talk show Thursday night, the 62-year-old host jokingly asked audience members how to "start an OnlyFans."

Mark Hamill, Drew Barrymore and more join Stephen Colbert’s star-studded final ‘Late Show’ afterparty

Celebrities flocked to an NYC event space to celebrate the end of Colbert's late-night run.

Trump: ‘Thank goodness’ Colbert is ‘finally gone’

President Trump celebrated the end of late-night comedian Stephen Colbert’s decadelong run hosting “The Late Show” on Thursday evening, after he previously championed Paramount Skydance’s decision to fire the comedian.   “Colbert is finally finished at CBS. Amazing that he lasted so long!” Trump wrote early Friday on Truth Social. “No talent, no ratings, no life.…

Trump: Stephen Colbert firing ‘beginning of the end’ for late night hosts

President Trump on Friday celebrated the cancelation of “The Late Show” with Stephen Colbert and suggested other late night TV hosts would also shortly be on the chopping block. “Stephen Colbert’s firing from CBS was the ‘Beginning of the End’ for untalented, nasty, highly overpaid, not funny, and very poorly rated Late Night Television Hosts,”…

Stephen Colbert Represented the Worst of the Left

Gore Vidal remarked during the George W. Bush years that comedians such as Jon Stewart had become leading political figures because the Left lacked powerful alternative voices. The idea that late-night clowns could represent American liberalism struck the great author as an absurdity. What do they have to do with it?

The Morning Briefing: Now That Colbert Is Gone, Can We Start the Clock on Kimmel?

Inside Platner's Rise in Maine

The Democrats' hopes in November hinge on the scandal-plagued Senate candidate

Dems Don't Need a '24 Autopsy To Have a Successful '26

Complaints among Democratic activists and influencers over the DNC's decision to abort its 2024 "autopsy report" was based on a craving for two things: (1) a clear "who done it" assessment of blame for Kamala Harris's loss to Donald Trump, and (2) a clear path forward for the party, in terms of its left-or-center ideological direction and its message to voters.