{"id":3098,"date":"2025-07-19T09:46:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T09:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.satecsite.org\/?p=3098"},"modified":"2025-07-21T10:23:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:23:25","slug":"fans-convinced-the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert-cancelled-for-terrifying-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.satecsite.org\/index.php\/2025\/07\/19\/fans-convinced-the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert-cancelled-for-terrifying-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans convinced The Late Show With Stephen Colbert cancelled for terrifying reason"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fans have suspicions about why The Late Show With Stephen Colbert has come to an end (Picture: CBS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The decision to <\/strong>end The Late Show with Stephen Colbert<\/strong><\/a> may be cloaked in corporate-speak and presented as a financial necessity, but many Americans remain unconvinced. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Social media<\/a> users have gone online in droves to claim the official narrative – that CBS is retiring the iconic franchise purely due to budgetary pressures – doesn\u2019t hold up under scrutiny. <\/p>\n

According to them, the timing, the context, and the responses surrounding the show\u2019s end all point to a deeper motive, and one that runs straight through the corridors of power in Washington.<\/p>\n

On Thursday night, Stephen Colbert stood before his audience and delivered the kind of news no late-night host ever wants to share: next season will be his last. <\/p>\n

\u2018It\u2019s not just the end of our show, but it\u2019s the end of The Late Show on CBS,\u2019 he told a stunned studio crowd. <\/p>\n

\u2018I\u2019m not being replaced. This is all just going away.\u2019 His tone was somber, but many viewers felt there was clear tension under the surface. <\/p>\n

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Just days before the announcement, Colbert criticized CBS’s parent company, Paramount, for reaching a $16million legal settlement with President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

The suit concerned the editing of a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris during the 2024 election, an interview Trump claimed was manipulated. Not long after Colbert publicly blasted the settlement, CBS dropped the axe. <\/p>\n

Officially, the network claims the show\u2019s cancellation has nothing to do with Trump, politics, or the content of The Late Show but that denial came across less as a confident clarification and more as damage control.<\/p>\n

Importantly, the show has had consistently high ratings in its slot and is often the highest-rated show in late-night.<\/p>\n

Their statement read: \u2018We consider Stephen Colbert irreplaceable and will retire \u2018THE LATE SHOW\u2019 franchise at that time. This is purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night. It is not related in any way to the show\u2019s performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Colbert has hosted The Late Show since 2015 (Picture: Scott Kowalchyk\/CBS via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Donald Trump – who Colbert interviewed on the show in 2015 – gloated about the cancelation online (Picture: Jeffrey R. Staab\/CBS via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As Rolling Stone<\/a>\u2019s Alan Sepinwall noted: \u2018Pointedly, there is no comment from Colbert in the release, and there\u2019s no way he wasn\u2019t asked to provide a polite quote.\u2019<\/p>\n

Then came Trump\u2019s gleeful gloating on Truth Social: \u2018I absolutely love that Colbert got fired. His talent was even less than his ratings. I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next. Has even less talent than Colbert!<\/p>\n

\u2018[Fox News host] Greg Gutfeld is better than all of them combined, including the Moron on NBC who ruined the once great Tonight Show.\u2019<\/p>\n

It was a smug victory lap that, intentionally or not, framed the network\u2019s decision as a political scalp. It\u2019s a bizarre spectacle when a sitting president takes public joy in the silencing of one of his loudest critics, but some also found it telling. <\/p>\n

The Writers Guild of America issued a statement <\/a>calling on New York state officials to launch an investigation into Paramount over \u2018potential wrongdoing.\u2019<\/p>\n

The statement reads in part: \u2018Given Paramount\u2019s recent capitulation to President Trump in the CBS News lawsuit, the Writers Guild of America has significant concerns that The Late Show\u2019s cancelation is a bribe, sacrificing free speech to curry favor with the Trump administration as the company looks for merger approval.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Colbert took over for David Letterman in 2015 (Picture: Scott Kowalchyk\/CBS via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

US Senator Bernie Sanders shared a similar sentiment: \u2018CBS\u2019s billionaire owners pay Trump $16 million to settle a bogus lawsuit while trying to sell the network to Skydance. Stephen Colbert, an extraordinary talent and the most popular late night host, slams the deal. Days later, he’s fired. Do I think this is a coincidence? NO.\u2019<\/p>\n

Senator Adam Schiff agreed: \u2018Just finished taping with Stephen Colbert who announced his show was cancelled. If Paramount and CBS ended the Late Show for political reasons, the public deserves to know. And deserves better.\u2019<\/p>\n

Hollywood isn\u2019t buying the official line either. Colbert\u2019s peers have rallied around him, none more bluntly than Jimmy Kimmel, who posted: \u2018Love you Stephen. F**k you and all your Sheldons CBS.\u2019<\/p>\n

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CBS\u2019s billionaire owners pay Trump $16 million to settle a bogus lawsuit while trying to sell the network to Skydance.Stephen Colbert, an extraordinary talent and the most popular late night host, slams the deal. Days later, he's fired. Do I think this is a coincidence? NO.<\/p>\n

— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) July 18, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n

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Just finished taping with Stephen Colbert who announced his show was cancelled.If Paramount and CBS ended the Late Show for political reasons, the public deserves to know. And deserves better.<\/p>\n

— Adam Schiff (@SenAdamSchiff) July 17, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n

Fans are also furious, flocking to social media in droves to share their outrage. @mmpadellan wrote: \u2018Good morning and Happy Friday to everyone who agrees that it was a bulls*** move for CBS to cancel Stephen Colbert’s show just days after he called out their parent company Paramount for bending the knee to Trump.<\/p>\n

I stand with Stephen Colbert.\ud83d\ude4f\ud83d\udcaa\u2019<\/p>\n

@aintscarylarry wrote: \u2018In case you missed it, the republicans cut off funding for NPR and PBS today. And later, CBS cancelled the Stephen Colbert show because he spoke the truth about Trump. Make no mistake about it: Fascism is here, and we are goose stepping toward having one state-approved media.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Jimmy Kimmel was among those slamming CBS’s decision (Picture: Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Since Colbert took over in 2015, The Late Show has become a nightly thorn in the side of authoritarianism, misinformation, and Donald Trump himself. <\/p>\n

Colbert\u2019s monologues during the Trump presidency often went viral, his satire sharp enough to provoke presidential tweets and conservative backlash. He was, arguably, the last late-night host still consistently willing to hold power to account with biting honesty. And now he’s gone.<\/p>\n

CBS may insist this is a simple case of budget cuts and shifting media trends, and it\u2019s true the network, like many in legacy media, is navigating rocky financial waters. <\/p>\n

But even if financial considerations were real, the optics of the timing and the conspicuous omission of any comment from Colbert in the announcement make it hard to believe the move was apolitical. <\/p>\n

The merger between Paramount and Skydance Media – which still awaits approval from the FCC, an agency that reports to the President – adds another layer of intrigue. It\u2019s not a stretch to see the show’s cancellation as a quiet concession, a quid pro quo to grease the wheels of a larger corporate deal.<\/p>\n

A host with a clear political point of view, one unafraid to criticize both his own network and the sitting administration, is being taken off the air, while the President cheers from the sidelines and a multi-billion-dollar media merger waits for government approval. <\/p>\n

The warning bells of creeping authoritarianism have been ringing in America for some time now, but this doesn\u2019t just echo them; it sounds a blaring alarm.<\/p>\n

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