There's a Split Among Fans Over Colbert

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,”…

Inside Colbert's Success

Stephen Colbert's cancellation was political. But the brilliance of his shows also belonged to the writers, producers, and staff.

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?

Stephen Colbert Out at CBS as Trump Weaponizes Regulatory Power to Control the Media: David Sirota

Late-night comedian Stephen Colbert has ended his 11-year run as host of The Late Show on CBS. His program’s cancellation removes one of President Trump’s most vocal critics from the airwaves and comes after the comedian criticized his own employer for agreeing to pay $16 million to settle a lawsuit brought by President Trump. The settlement came as CBS parent company Paramount was seeking the Trump administration’s approval for a merger with Skydance, which the Trump administration approved just one week after CBS announced Colbert’s ouster. Trump’s FCC Chair Brendan Carr has openly gloated about the administration’s attacks on critics in the media and the defunding of outlets like PBS and NPR, which no longer receive federal money. Meanwhile, Paramount Skydance is seeking another megamerger with Warner Bros. Discovery, which would further concentrate media control in the hands of the billionaire Ellison family that has a long history of supporting Trump. “We see this over and over again, where the Trump administration is weaponizing its power over mergers to try to get what it wants in the media space,” says David Sirota, editor-in-chief of The Lever and host of the Master Plan podcast.