CBS Cancelled Stephen Colbert's Show … Brian Stelter Is Upset, Jimmy Kimmel Melts Down On Instagram

Posted • July 18, 2025: CBS has pulled the plug on "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert," with the decade-long running "comedy" program set to end after the 2025-2026 season closes. That marks a dramatic cancellation of one of the biggest names in late-night, and it's an ominous sign for a genre that has been going downhill for years. Naturally, because Colbert had become therapy for Democrat politicians, figures like Rep. Adam Schiff and Sen. Elizabeth Warren were none too happy. Both have appeared on the show multiple times, with Schiff having just filmed his latest "interview" on Thursday, the same day the news broke of the cancellation. The allegation is that this was political (so what?) and an attempt to cover for the Trump administration. You know, because the bigwigs over at Paramount and CBS are renowned for their support of Republicans.

Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren: “CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery. America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.” —— Democrat politicians aside, one of Colbert's peers has also chimed in. Jimmy Kimmel, the pope of late-night and the nation's conscience, posted the following obscenity-laden message on Instagram. “Love you Stephen. F–- you and all your Sheldons CBS,” Kimmel wrote on his personal Instagram story Thursday, appearing to reference CBS’s hit “The Big Bang Theory” spinoff, “Young Sheldon.” —— Well, that's mature. Is he going to cry on air again, too? It's pretty incredible that a guy could go from doing skits in blackface and hosting wet T-shirt contests to being that delusionally arrogant, but here we are. All of this is emblematic of what the late-night scene, aside from Greg Gutfeld, has become. It's just a bunch of far-left activists who abandoned any pretense of comedy long ago.

ABC, which owns and airs Kimmel's show, now has the chance to do the funniest thing ever. Given CBS cited financial concerns as the reason Colbert was canceled, it's hard to see how ABC doesn't have those same issues. For one, Kimmel's ratings are worse than Colbert's, with the former lagging by nearly a million viewers. Meanwhile, ABC pays Kimmel a reported $15 million a year to host "Jimmy Kimmel Live," not including bonuses and royalties. Then you have to consider the costs of paying for an entire writing room and all the technical production costs. From the studio to the camera operators, nothing is cheap in Los Angeles. I can't say for sure, but when you consider everything involved, the math isn't really mathing as far as Kimmel's show being financially lucrative. So perhaps he should consider that before popping off, because he could and should be next on the chopping block. (…)

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New York Post: Jimmy Kimmel blasts CBS over ‘The Late Show’ cancellation as he supports pal Stephen Colbert: ‘F–k you’
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CNN: CBS is ending ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’ next year
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/17/media/cbs-cancels-stephen-colbert
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Twitchy: Stacey Abrams' Eulogy for the Colbert Show Accidentally Explains Its Cancellation
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