{"id":547534,"date":"2026-01-27T20:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T20:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/547534\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T20:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T20:05:12","slug":"the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert-reveals-date-of-final-episode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/547534\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Late Show With Stephen Colbert\u2019 Reveals Date Of Final Episode"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe Late Show<\/a> is coming to an end<\/a>, and the goodbye party now has a date.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Stephen Colbert-hosted late-night show will end on Thursday, May 21, Deadline has confirmed.<\/p>\n

\n\tCBS<\/a> always said that the series, which has been running since 1993, was going to end in May after it emerged the franchise was being axed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tColbert revealed the news during an appearance on rival talker Late Night with Seth Meyers, which is set to air tonight (January 27) on NBC, per LateNighter.<\/p>\n

\n\tCBS surprisingly canceled the show in July, days after the comedian had called his parent company Paramount Global\u2019s settlement of a lawsuit<\/a> from Donald Trump a \u201cbigfatbribe.\u201d<\/a> The news came a month before David Ellison\u2019s Skydance closed its merger with Paramount<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: Trump Celebrity Supporters: Famous Folks In Favor Of The 47th President<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tExecs at the broadcast network stressed that the move was \u201cpurely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late-night\u201d and \u201cis not related in any way to the show\u2019s performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tColbert hasn\u2019t toned down his rhetoric against Trump or Paramount since being told he was being fired. On Monday night, he said, \u201cI think we can all agree: F*ck ICE,\u201d in response to the killing of Alex Pretti<\/a> by a Border Patrol agent in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n

\n\tLast week, he mocked the idea of Trump\u2019s \u201cBoard of Peace,\u201d which has seen the president charging people $1B to join. \u201cNow, admittedly, the idea of paying a billion dollars to obey Donald Trump seems a little steep,\u201d Colbert said. \u201cAfter all, CBS got to do it for just $16M.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: Stephen Colbert To Be Honored With WGA East\u2019s Walter Bernstein Award<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tColbert also has been on an awards tear since the news emerged; in September, the show won the Emmy for Outstanding Talk Series<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI want to thank CBS for giving us the privilege to be part of the late-night tradition, which I hope continues long after we\u2019re no longer doing this show,\u201d he said onstage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tNext month, he will receive the Walter Bernstein Award from the Writers Guild of America East<\/a> and The Late Show will also be vying for another Emmy in September, although this year will face tough competition from Jimmy Kimmel Live!, whose host has faced his own late-night drama this year.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: Donald Trump Says Stephen Colbert Should Be \u201cPut To Sleep\u201d In Late-Night Tirade & Another Call For Broadcast License Terminations<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Late Show is coming to an end, and the goodbye party now has a date. The Stephen…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":547535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[15328,171,13896,47174,173,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-547534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-cbs","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-the-late-show","11":"tag-the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert","12":"tag-tv","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115968863415843196","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}