Jimmy Kimmel responds to CBS that cancel Stephen Colbert: ‘Fuck You’
Jimmy Kimmel Greetings to “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” – and blowed rival network CBS – on Thursday evening, hours after CBS announced that it would cancel the series of Colbert in May 2026 and retire the “Late Show” brand.
“Love you Stephen,” Kimmel wrote about his Instagram story and had a clip of Colbert’s on-Air announcement that his show would end. “Fuck you and all your Sheldons CBS.”
Shortly after Colbert revealed that “The Late Show” would end during his recording on Thursday, CBS confirmed the plans, so that the cancellation justified as a “purely financial decision against a challenging background in the late night” and emphasizes that “it is in no way related to the performance, content or other things or other things of the show.”
The decline of the late night format in the midst of the rise of digital media has become a well -known business trend in recent years. Nevertheless, the timing of the cancellation of Colbert has raised eyebrows at commentators, which indicates widespread cynicism with regard to the relationship of media companies with President Trump.
The decision to put an end to “The Late Show” comes about two weeks after Paramount reached an agreement with Trump to pay $ 16 million to arrange a lawsuit that once described it as “meritless”, in which Trump accused “60 minutes” of fraudulent interview with the then candidate Kamala Harris and misleading. The settlement indicated that the termination of the legal dispute with Trump could accelerate federal approval for a planned deal for Skydance Media to acquire Paramount.
Colbert has been a long -term critic of Trump, who regularly started the president in his late night monologues, since his term of office as a host of ‘Late Show’ in 2015.
“CBS canceled the Show of Colbert only three days after Colbert CBS owner Paramount called for the $ 16 settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery,” Senator Elizabeth Warren written In a statement on social media. “America deserves to know if his show has been canceled for political reasons.”
“Stephen Colbert is a profound good and deeply talented man with a great staff and an excellent show. They all earn better,” said Andy Richter, Conan O’Brien’s Late Night right hand. The Bluesky Post In addition to a screenshot of an SMS conversation in which the contact by Richter simply wrote ‘Trump’ and ‘Mother Fucker’.
“The financial side of that company has absolutely been under pressure, as CBS release claims, but if CBS believes it can escape without serious questions about capitulation of Trump, they are seriously misled,” ” written New York Times Media Reporter Bill Carter.
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