Proving again how out of touch these New York liberals are from the rest of the country, Tuesday’s CBS Mornings and NBC’s Today were gaga for the far-left, late-night powwow that went down Monday on CBS’s The Late Show as ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel, HBO’s John Oliver, and NBC’s Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers gathered to give Stephen Colbert some support ahead of his impending cancellation May 21.
Nevermind the fact that NewsBusters has been tracking late-night guests and jokes since late 2022 and found well over 90 percent of political guests are left-wing as well as political jokes targeting the right. In 2025, for example, our Alex Christy found 99 percent of all their political guests are left-wing and 92 percent of jokes attacked conservatives and Republicans.
It’s never been comedy. It’s late-night group therapy fomenting hate against at least half the country.
On CBS Mornings, featured co-host Vlad Duthiers had two teases swooning over this “team of rivals” coming together with “a lot to say” about Colbert’s departure.
Duthiers highlighted it as part of his “What to Watch” segment with P!nk’s Raise Your Glass as the show came back from break: “Hey! Raising the glass to the late-night hosts. That’s where we’re gonna begin this morning. Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, and John Oliver joined Stephen Colbert yesterday as The Late Show enters its final two weeks on air.”
To this, co-host Nate Burleson swooned that “[i]t’s like The Avengers.”
“I know! It really is. It’s like that scene in The Avengers where they all line up, ready to go. And they did not hold back. Check it out,” Duthiers replied.
Tuesday's 'CBS Mornings' actually boasted Monday's 'Late Show' with Colbert, Fallon, Kimmel, Meyers, and Oliver was just like 'The Avengers' pic.twitter.com/gy1aF9J8Wc
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) May 12, 2026
The clip CBS aired was one of disgust as Kimmel quipped he’s been “waiting for angry Stephen to come out” and “go nuts” over losing his show
In response, Colbert fretted: “Each one of you, your shows are doing, each started before this show and then you’re gonna be here, after I’m here. I’m like the — like, you’re like the candy shell. I’m the nougat filling that somebody came along and just sucked it out.”
Kimmel went morbid, joking he “feel[s] like” one does “when your young wife does” in that The Late Show going away is “sad” and “a tragedy.” After Fallon called it “odd” and “a bummer,” HBO’s Oliver made light of his ability to curse freely by calling Colbert’s cancellation B.S.
With the clip over, Duthiers — whose wife is the longtime showrunner for Oliver’s vile program — explained the supposed joke that “John can curse, it’s on cable.”
Without Tony Dokoupil to point out how much money these shows cost and how rabidly partisan they are, Duthiers briefly waxed poetic about how supposedly crucial Colbert has been:
[T]his is really cool to see them all. I think Kimmel made the point that all of these shows combined get more viewers than The Late Show with Johnny Carson [sic] — The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson, which was one of the greatest shows in late-night history. The final episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will air next Thursday, May 21, very sad. End of an era.
NBC’s Today had not one, but four teases gushing over the “sentimental sendoff” and “late-night gathering for the ages” in which the five shared some “laughs...one last night.”
Entertainment correspondent and former Colbert intern Chloe Melas gushed Monday’s Late Show “was such a great show...filled with countless jokes, endless laughs, and even a kiss.”
This was how NBC’s ‘Today’ covered on Tuesday the circlejerk between Colbert, Kimmel, Fallon, Meyers, and Oliver, gushing it’s “such a great show...filled with countless jokes, endless laughs” celebrating Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ as having been a home for “a mix of celebrity… pic.twitter.com/BqSGpBEIUb
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) May 12, 2026
“The hilarious and at-time sentimental send-off was part tribute, part roast, and part therapy session as they spoke about their type on and friendships. But in the end, it was a simple love letter to late-night TV,” she declared, adding “[i]t was a historic moment in late-night television.”
She explained they’ve previously “dubbed themselves Strike Force Fives after launching a podcast together during the 2023 actors and writer strikes,” but came together Monday “ten days before [Colbert’s] show ends its 11-season run.”
Melas’s piece strayed away from anything political in their discussion or their collective outrage over CBS’s cancellation.
All Melas did on that front was note the announcement came back in July with CBS having “[said] at the time that it was purely a financial decision and was not related in any way to the show’s performance.”
She then grew ridiculous, flashing her liberal politics: “For years, Colbert’s late show has been the highest-rated network late-night program, known for its mix of celebrity interviews, political satire, and headline-making monologues.”
“Political satire”? When only one side is ridiculed and often in graphic terms, that’s not real satire.
After acknowledging Colbert’s Late Night will be replaced by a stand-up comics-based show called Comics Unleashed, Melvin had Melas remind viewers she started in 2008 as a Colbert intern.
“I interned with Stephen in the summer of 2008. I actually saw Stephen Colbert last week, and I told him it was the best summer in my life, and got a little teary. I think he’s sad, but no, ready for this next chapter,” she replied.
Along with co-host Savannah Guthrie remarking their presence “just makes you feel good,” co-host Al Roker chimed in that “[w]e’re going to miss Mr. Colbert for sure.”
To see the relevant transcripts from May 12, click here (for CBS) and here (for NBC).
