It was last week that the host Stephen Colbert in the broadcast himself announced that the program will be shut down in May next year. The message came a few weeks after CBS's parent company Paramount entered into a settlement with President Donald Trump, who sued CBS News. Colbert has in his program criticized the settlement and called it a "big, fat bribe".
Now Colbert gets support, not least among talk show colleagues, reports Variety. In this week's "The Daily Show" said the host Jon Stewart:
The fact that CBS did not try to save its highest rated network franchise for late evenings, which has been broadcast for over three decades, makes everyone wonder; was this a purely economic decision?, said Stewart and continued:
Or was it perhaps the path of least resistance for your eight billion dollar merger to kill a program that you know annoyed a sensitive and vindictive president?
Praises the decision
The decision to shut down "The Late Show" has been praised by Trump. "I really love that Colbert got fired. His talent was even worse than the ratings. I've heard that Jimmy Kimmel is next. Has even less talent than Colbert!", wrote the president on his platform Truth Social.
Now Stephen Colbert is striking back. In the opening monologue of Monday's program, he exclaimed:
How dare you, sir? Could a talentless man compose the following satirical wit?, he asked and then told Trump to go to hell:
Go f*** yourself.
The gloves are off
Colbert also joked that the "cancel" culture had gone too far.
Over the weekend, it dawned on me that they are shutting down our show. But they made a mistake, they let me survive. And now the gloves are off for the next ten months. Now I can speak plainly to power and say what I really think about Donald Trump, said Colbert according to Variety.
"The Late Show" has been hosted by Stephen Colbert since 2015, when he took over after talk show legend David Letterman.
