Posted on 05/15/2026 7:17:53 AM PDT by subterfuge
Stephen Colbert's 11-year run as host of "The Late Show" will end on May 21. That its untimely end was announced mere weeks before the Trump-loyalist Ellison family finalized their CBS-Paramount takeover led many to believe it was a move to appease Trump, while the network claimed Colbert's late-night program was losing around $40 million a year - a figure that led friendly rival Jimmy Kimmel to quip, "Not a snowball's chance in hell that's accurate."
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Well, whatever the reason, Colbert is out in a week. And so, for his final weeks, the funnyman has welcomed an assortment of friends and A-listers, from his fellow late-night hosts Kimmel, Oliver, Meyers, and Fallon, to the likes of Tom Hanks, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and former president Barack Obama. And on Thursday night, Colbert welcomed his "Late Show" predecessor, the great David Letterman, whose big, bushy beard now resembles Joaquin Phoenix's during his infamous performance art stunt on his show.
"I have every right to be pissed off, so I'll be pissed off here a little bit," he continued. "This theater, you folks wouldn't be in this theater if it weren't for me, and Stephen wouldn't be here if it weren't for me, and we rebuilt this theater, and then Stephen came in, and look at this? It's like the Bellagio. But, listen… as we all understand, you can take a man's show, you can't take a man's voice."
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Shouldn’t a comedian be funny every decade or so?
I remember Dave when he was starting to lose it. He repeatedly said on one show “you got any gum, you got any gum?”
Not remotely funny.
Dave was funny to college kids and stoners 35 years ago
I think Colbert will grow a long white beard like Letterman.
When Letterman came to do his show in SF it was a big deal. Ralph Barbieri on Sportsphone68 couldn’t understand all the fuss and referred to him as a mediocrity.
Lunatics Anonymous.
Dave should spend the $40 million to keep Steve on for another year. Bet he doesn’t.
LOL indeed.
I miss when Letterman was FUNNY, and not a bitter, has-been with a “LOOK AT ME” Smith Brothers beard. It’s the male equivalent of purple hair.
Dave sure makes it tough to root for Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing.
LOL! You guys are funnier than either of them!
Liberals call this sort of stuff “performance art”. Parents of small children call it a tantrum.
Letterman is such a egotistical liar.
It’s originally the Ed Sullivan Theater.
Pompous ass.
Americans are the most entertained and the least informed.
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