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Jay Leno's comments about politics during late-night TV take on new meaning amid the cancellation of Stephen Colbert's CBS hosting gig.
T he 2025 TV schedule has been a tumultuous time for the world of late night television, including the quiet cancellation of After Midnight in the spring and the shocking cancellation of Stephen Colbert's The Late Show in July.
Stephen Colbert took a baseball bat to President Trump's threat to prosecute Beyoncé on Monday night, imagining the "Formation" singer's clap-back track that the "Late Show" team titled "A Responsé From Beyoncé.
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Seth Meyers Says He'd 'Worry About Myself, Mental Health-Wise' If His Late Show Was Canceled
Seth Meyers reflected on what the end of his late-night show would feel like to him days after CBS announced 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert' will end after next season.
In just the first six months of this year, the show booked 43 left-leaning political guests — and zero conservatives — leading all late-night programs in partisan tilt.
What’s happening now is not only wrong, it goes against what we must stand for as a nation," said Robert Suttmann, president of Local 802 American Federation of Musicians.
CBS announced on July 17 that "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" is being cancelled and "The Late Show" will come to an end after a 33-year run in May 2026. While the cancellation may be surprising for those focused on Colbert's ratings success in the linear TV space,
David Letterman delivered a fiery rant against CBS and parent company Paramount for cancelling Stephen Colbert’s “Late Show,” calling the decision “gutless” and “pure cowardice” as he labeled his successor a martyr of the network.
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