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'The Five' Talks Colbert Show Losing $40 Million a Year, CNN Skips It

May 23rd, 2026 9:10 PM

After a nearly eleven year run, the final episode of CBS's The Late Show with Stephen Colbert aired this past Thursday, and despite reports that the show was losing ratings and $40 million per year, and was so far to the left that it had turned into the DNC Show, the left wing media has bought into Colbert's claim that his show was The Joy Machine, and they have blamed the…

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‘Architect of the Culture’: Morning Joe Gushes for Colbert Post-Show

May 22nd, 2026 9:30 PM

Following the final episode of CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Thursday night, MS NOW’s Morning Joe lavished praise upon the disgraced host Stephen Colbert. Despite the cancellation announcement going out in July of 2025, The Late Show was permitted to run for almost another year before finally keeling over on May 21, and afterwards, its only mourners…

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Bozell Blasts CBS & Colbert Over Left-Wing Echo Chamber

May 22nd, 2026 2:01 PM

Media Research Center President David Bozell joined The Ray Stevens Show Friday morning to discuss a new NewsBusters study that highlights Stephen Colbert’s frequent targeting of right-wing figures and Trump administration officials.

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CNN Has an NPR Reunion as They Celebrate Colbert as Rare 'Gentleman'

May 22nd, 2026 12:46 PM

CNN This Morning host Audie Cornish used Friday's Group Chat to promote her new CNN podcast, Engagement Party, co-hosted with former NPR colleague Ari Shapiro, brought onto the Chat panel. The discussion quickly turned into a nostalgic send-off for Stephen Colbert’s Late Show — complete with another NPR alum, CNN contributor Lulu Garcia-Navarro, on the panel.

Trump: Colbert Firing ‘Beginning of the End’ of Nasty Late-Night Hosts

May 22nd, 2026 10:48 AM

The end is nigh for late-night shows where venomous hosts try to pass off political hate speech as entertainment, President Donald Trump declared Friday after Stephen Colbert aired the last episode of The Late Show on CBS.

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Colbert: Show Was 'The Joy Machine' And My Job Was To 'Feel The News'

May 22nd, 2026 9:15 AM

Stephen Colbert began the final episode of CBS’s The Late Show by unwittingly highlighting how it all went wrong. Colbert told the audience that he viewed his show as “the joy machine” and that he thought his job was to “feel the news with you,” even if it was not actually that joyful. Later, during a sci-fi skit about the show being sucked into a black hole, Colbert was joined once…

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STUDY: Stephen Colbert Turned 'The Late Show' Into 'The DNC Show'

May 22nd, 2026 9:00 AM

Stephen Colbert was well into his farewell media tour when he told GQ, “I think I'm more conservative than people think.” However, according to an aggregation of previous NewsBusters studies and quote packages, that is not true. Since NewsBusters began counting jokes in January 2023, Colbert has told 87 percent of his political jokes about conservatives. Likewise, since September 2022…

Colbert’s Bitter Exit: How Trump Derangement Killed Late Night TV

May 21st, 2026 6:05 PM

Late-night television bid farewell to Stephen Colbert on Thursday as CBS aired the final episode of The Late Show. On WMAL, host Derek Hunter discussed the exit with David Bozell, president of the Media Research Center (MRC), the organization that tracked and documented the show’s sharp leftward turn for years.

 

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NBC Mourns End of ‘Devout’ Colbert’s ‘Politically Charged Humor’

May 21st, 2026 2:50 PM

Surprisingly, NBC’s Today was the only lead broadcast network morning news show to embarrass itself on Thursday by mourning the “end of an era” with the last episode of CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert set to air hours later, fretting there will no longer be a show helmed by the “devout Catholic” with “trailblazing format” that’s become defined by “politically charged…

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Springsteen To Colbert: CBS Has No Idea What America Is About

May 21st, 2026 9:50 AM

On Wednesday’s penultimate episode of CBS’s The Late Show singer Bruce Springsteen delivering his ode to host Stephen Colbert where he declared that the show is going away because President Trump can’t take a joke and because Paramount’s leaders “feel they need to kiss his ass.” Earlier, on ABC, Jimmy Kimmel sang a similar tune when he declared that they should be ashamed of…

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Byron Allen Promises ‘No Politics’ on Show Taking Colbert’s CBS Slot

May 20th, 2026 4:28 PM

The liberal crew on CBS Mornings faced the awkward task Wednesday of promoting billionaire media mogul and comedian Byron Allen paying CBS to air old episodes, past highlights, and supposedly new material from his show Comics Unleashed — which marks 20 years in 2026 — starting Friday in place of the cancelled Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Notably, Allen emphasized…

‘None of the Above’ Rated Best Late-Night Comedian on TV

May 20th, 2026 3:27 PM

“None of the above” trounced all other choices when a national poll asked U.S adult citizens to name “the best” late-night comedian on TV - yet another sign of viewers’ growing disdain for the hateful political commentary that has replaced entertainment.

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Stewart Looks Forward To Celebrating End of 'Putrid Administration'

May 20th, 2026 9:31 AM

Not everything CBS’s Stephen Colbert does for The Late Show makes it to air. Some material is only revealed 10 years later, and some gets puts on YouTube. The latter was the case on Tuesday, as Colbert welcomed The Daily Show’s Monday host Jon Stewart to antepenultimate episode of the show. As the duo were discussing how Stewart is the last one standing at Paramount in terms…

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Stephen Colbert's Worst Moments From His 11 CBS Years

May 19th, 2026 10:00 AM

CBS is canceling The Late Show after the conclusion of Thursday’s episode. Since 2015, The Late Show has been hosted by Stephen Colbert, who by the time Thursday comes around will have hosted 1,801 episodes of the show that began under David Letterman in 1993.