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CBS’s Stephen Colbert welcomed Sen. Bernie Sanders to The Late Show for the nineteenth and hopefully final time on Tuesday for an obnoxiously long, four-segment softball interview covering everything from Colbert’s employer to Venezuela to Minnesota to socialism.

CBS’s Stephen Colbert’s habit of inviting guests to The Late Show to tell him what he wants to hear continued apace on Thursday as he welcomed author, former Biden speechwriter, and frequent cable news talking head Jon Meacham to the show to promote his new book and do his usual shtick where he attempts to wax poetic about the dire state of Trump’s America. According to Meacham, the…

CBS’s host of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert, and ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel lamented that the Justice Department is “investigating the victims” of the Minneapolis shooting involving Renee Good and ICE agent Jonathan Ross. However, neither host provided their audience with the key detail that Good’s wife, Rebecca, told her to “drive, baby, drive” after Good herself was told to get out of the…

CBS’s Stephen Colbert welcomed incoming Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger to Monday’s taping of The Late Show to discuss how she might react if the Trump administration sent ICE agents or National Guard soldiers to Virginia. Both argued that what the administration is currently doing in places like Minneapolis is simply trying to "instill” or “sow fear.”

In an episode of The Barbara Gaines Show posted on Friday, former CBS’s Late Show host David Letterman was in old-man-yells-at-the-clouds mood as he lamented the impending cancellation of his old show and seethed over CBS News as now being run by “idiots” — ostensibly referring to Paramount Skydance chairman David Ellison and CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss — who’ve “eviscerated”…

Four of the five liberal late night comedy shows focused a lot of energy on their Thursday episodes on the situation in Minneapolis. According to them, the administration is lying about the female driver being a threat to the ICE agent who shot her, people who agree with the administration are fascists, and Trump plans to use the situation to further his goal of governing without elections.…

On Wednesday’s edition of The Late Show, CBS’s Stephen Colbert reacted to the incident in Minneapolis where an ICE agent shot a woman who appeared to drive her car at him by claiming that it was the agent who was wrong and that Second Amendment supporters are being hypocrites.

Former late night host Conan O’Brien is so close to getting it. During a Tuesday appearance at the Oxford Union, O’Brien criticized the type of comedian who has reduced themselves to saying nothing except “F Trump.” However, earlier in the event, O’Brien refused to apply this standard to the likes of ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel and CBS’s Stephen Colbert.

For the left, 2026 will be a sad year in the realm of late night comedy because The Late Show host Stephen Colbert will depart the scene in May. For everyone else, the CBS host’s Monday ode to the Soviet Union with Puck News Washington correspondent Julia Ioffe was a good reminder of why they will not miss him.

The late night comedy shows kicked off 2026 on Monday by talking about the big news of Nicolas Maduro’s capture by U.S. forces on Saturday in Venezuela. According to the liberal quintet, the most obvious motivations for President Trump to order such a move were to distract from the Epstein files and because Trump did not like Maduro’s dance moves.

Late night comedy’s regular trashing of conservatives and Republicans is not confined to the hosts. Oftentimes, guests are brought on to parrot the host's beliefs, and with a new Republican president, an outgoing host, and another that was briefly suspended, those guests had lots to talk about this year. Here are the ten worst.

It was a rough year for the late night comedy business. One show was cancelled, it was announced another will be cancelled next year, and another was suspended for spouting off about conspiracy theories related to Charlie Kirk’s assassin. Add all that to the regular program of liberal politicking, and you get the top (bottom?) ten moments from late night 2025.

Kathy Griffin has a bizarre idea of who is a "professional Nazi." Ditto for Robert De Niro.

For the men of the late night comedy talk shows, the second half of 2025 was not good. In July, Stephen Colbert announced his show will be cancelled next year, and in September, Jimmy Kimmel was suspended for peddling conspiracy theories about Charlie Kirk’s assassin’s political ideology. As a result, many guests would often gush over them and portray them as free speech martyrs, and when…