The late show with Stephen Colbert ends in 2026 as CBS Cancels Show | Stephen Colbert

The late show with Stephen Colbert was canceled and ends in May. Network CBS announces that after a 33-year-old run, she will retire the late show.

Colbert, who has organized the talk show since 2015, announced the news during the recording on Thursday evening and told the audience that the news was only told him last night.

When the audience broke out, he said: “Yes, I share your feelings.

“It's not just the end of the show, it is the end of the late show on CBS. I am not replaced, everything goes away,” said Colbert.

He said he was “grateful” to the audience and the 200-member crew of the show.

“Let me tell you it's a fantastic job,” he added. “I wish someone else would get it. And it is a job that I would get on with this usual idiot gang for another 10 months.”

Colbert took over the late show from Veteran moderator David Letterman, who organized the show from 1993 to 2015 for 22 years. The show has consistently high ratings in your slot and is often the highest show at night.

The announcement comes that the parent company of CBS, Paramount Global, tries to conclude a merger with Skydance after the deal has fallen apart last year.

Colbert is also a loud critic of the US President Donald Trump, but the owners of Paramount have urged the Trump administration to approve the sale of CBS to Skydance.

Paramount has just enclosed a lawsuit that Trump submitted against CBS News, a decision that Colbert called “a big fat bribe” on the late show at the beginning of this week.

“Paramount knows that they could have been fighting,” said Colbert on Tuesday, because the company itself described the lawsuit as “completely without earnings”.

“And remember that transformers produced by Paramount: rise of the animal – you know it completely without services,” he joked.

Senator Adam Schiff, a democrat who appeared as a guest on Thursday evening, later wrote on social media: “When Paramount and CBS ended the late show for political reasons, the public deserves it. And deserves it better.”

George Cheeks, co-CEO of Paramount Global and President and CEO of CBS; Amy Reisenbach, President of CBS Entertainment; And David Stapp, President of CBS Studios, made a joint explanation in which she would “end her historical run in May 2026 at the end of the broadcast season”.

“We consider Stephen Colbert to be irreplaceable and will withdraw the late show franchise at this time. We are proud that Stephen CBS Home called. He and the show will be remembered in the pantheon of the sizes that the Late -night television was adorned,” they said.

The explanation added that the cancellation was “only a financial decision against a challenging background in the late night”.

“In no way is it related to the performance, the content or other matters of the show with Paramount,” added the network.