The late show with Stephen Colbert ends in May 2026, says CBS

The host Stephen Colbert broke the news on Thursday evening on Thursday evening and triggered a choir from Boos from the live studio audience.

“I would like to say that the people of CBS were great partners,” said Colbert and added: “And of course I am, the audience that came to us every evening here, outside.”

Colbert was informed about the decision on Wednesday evening, he told the audience during his Thursday monologue.

“Yes, I share your feeling,” he said when the crowd in the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York screamed “No” and booze.

“It is not just the end of our show, it is the end of the late show on CBS. I am not replaced. It all just goes away,” he continued. “It's a fantastic job. I wish someone else would get it.”

The late show was created in 1993 by CBS, the US news partner of the BBC, as a competitor of NBC. After an argument between the hosts David Letterman and Jay Leno, it came about who Johnny Carson follows in today's show of the wild NBC.

Colbert took over the Letterman's CBS program in 2015 and has become one of Trump's most starest critics in the late -night television.

Before Colbert took over the job at the Late Show, he was a moderator of “The Colbert Report” about comedy Central – a program that impairs American conservative politics and culture.

The end of the program was announced in the middle of discussions between Paramount and Skydance Media to bring the two companies together, a step that would require the approval of the US government.

The Democratic Senator Adam Schiff released on X on Thursday that he had completed an interview with Colbert shortly before the cancellation was announced.

He wondered whether the announcement was bound to the agreement of USD 16 million (12 million GBP), which the network approved and wrote to a payment to Trump: “If Paramount and CBS ended the late show for political reasons, the public deserves to know.”

The settlement came after Trump CBS sued in October in October because the network had been dealing with an interview that was broadcast with its rival of the presidential election Kamala Harris in his 60 -minute news program to “give the scales in favor of the democratic party”.

Paramount said it would pay for the complaint, but with the money that Trump's future presidential library was assigned to, and not “directly or indirectly” paid to him.