{"id":480671,"date":"2026-05-12T10:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T10:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/480671\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T10:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T10:05:11","slug":"colbert-kimmel-oliver-meyers-and-fallon-discuss-trump-and-late-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/480671\/","title":{"rendered":"Colbert, Kimmel, Oliver, Meyers and Fallon Discuss Trump and Late-Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tStephen Colbert<\/a> hosted his fellow late-night frontmen Jimmy Fallon<\/a>, Jimmy Kimmel<\/a>, Seth Meyers<\/a> and John Oliver<\/a> on Monday\u2019s episode of \u201cThe Late Show<\/a>.\u201d The meeting of the minds was a send-off for Colbert as he enters his final days as the face of \u201cThe Late Show,\u201d which goes off the air for good on May 21.<\/p>\n

\n\tPartway through the joint interview, Colbert prompted his guests to \u201cmake a case for late-night,\u201d given that the genre has struggled in recent years. Kimmel was the first to go. He emphasized the strength of late-night\u2019s fanbase, which he experienced firsthand when \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!\u201d was briefly suspended<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe have a lot of shows. 30,000 people watching each one, and it adds up,\u201d Kimmel said. \u201cPeople watch us on YouTube now. People have a lot of different options and they keep coming to us. I will tell you, when I got knocked off the air for a few days, people canceled Disney+. Why aren\u2019t people canceling Paramount+? Because you never had it in the first place?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tColbert then posed another question to the group. He asked his fellow hosts if, as young comedians, they ever thought they\u2019d be \u201cdoing a job that the President of the United States would have strong feelings about?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tKimmel once again took the lead, referring to his recent spat with First Lady Melania Trump<\/a>. He said, \u201cYou know what\u2019s even weirder? Doing a job that his wife has strong feelings about.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMeyers quipped back, \u201cMost of us have avoided that part.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOliver then recalled the moment he found out Kimmel was in hot water with the First Lady via their late-night group chat.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe \u201cLast Week Tonight\u201c host said, laughing, \u201cIt\u2019s an amazing thing to get, in a group text, a text from Jimmy saying, \u2018Oh, boy.\u2019 And then a picture of Melania mad at him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMeyers then chimed in again, saying that he likes it when Trump posts on Truth Social during his show because it means he\u2019s tuning in live, and in that way, supporting the show.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe thing I like, he posts when the show airs, and I want to say I appreciate that he is watching linear television,\u201d Meyers said. \u201cIf I would make my case for late-night, it\u2019s that leaders of the free world are watching it when it airs.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCBS revealed it was cancelling \u201cThe Late Show\u201d<\/a> in July 2025 and cited the move as a \u201cfinancial decision.\u201d However, some have speculated that Colbert was pulled to help smooth out the merger between Paramount, CBS\u2019 parent company, and David Ellison\u2019s Skydance. At that time, the merger was still awaiting approval from the FCC, and by proxy, President Trump, a vocal critic of Colbert and late-night as a whole.<\/p>\n

\n\tFormer \u201cLate Show\u201d host David Letterman, who will be among Colbert\u2019s final guests<\/a>, has been one of the most outspoken detractors of CBS\u2019 decision. In a recent interview with New York Times journalist Jason Zinoman, Letterman slammed the network\u2019s leadership as \u201clying weasels.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHe was dumped because the people selling the network to Skydance said, \u2018Oh no, there\u2019s not going to be any trouble with that guy. We\u2019re going to take care of the show. We\u2019re just going to throw that into the deal. When will the ink on the check dry?\u2019\u201d Letterman said. \u201cI\u2019m just going to go on record as saying: They\u2019re lying. Let me just add one other thing, Jason. They\u2019re lying weasels.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert hosted his fellow late-night frontmen Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers and John Oliver on Monday\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265],"tags":[18,117,19,17,9163,7613,47096,5712,4951,7671,128],"class_list":{"0":"post-480671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-jimmy-fallon","13":"tag-jimmy-kimmel","14":"tag-john-oliver","15":"tag-seth-meyers","16":"tag-stephen-colbert","17":"tag-the-late-show","18":"tag-tv"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}