Don't cry for Stephen Colbert — he should have been axed years ago
Jimmy Kimmel — the ABC late-night host paid a whopping $15 million a year to tell jokes to an average 1.7 million viewers — wrote on his Instagram stories: 'F*** you and all your Sheldons, CBS.' Bernie Sanders, the senator from Vermont, railed against the decision on X. The former TV host Katie Couric published a lengthy statement on her Instagram page. The actress Jamie Lee Curtis told the Associated Press that 'it's bad' and called Colbert 'a great guy'.
It's true that the optics were awful.
Only days before he was axed, Colbert slammed the CBS owner, Paramount, for paying President Trump $16 million to settle a lawsuit. Trump had claimed the network had edited an interview with Kamala Harris in a favourable light to help her win the election. Paramount needs approval from Trump's Federal Communications Commission to close a multi-billion-dollar merger.
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