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News.com.au
6 hours ago
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- News.com.au
‘Jimmy Kimmel is next': Donald Trump gloats over Stephen Colbert's cancellation
President Donald Trump addressed CBS' shocking decision to cancel The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, seemingly suggesting that other late night hosts should get a similar treatment – namely his longtime critic, Jimmy Kimmel. 'I absolutely love that Colbert' got fired. His talent was even less than his ratings,' Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social, per Variety. 'I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next. Has even less talent than Colbert!' Kimmel and Trump have been feuding for years, Decider reports. Not only did Trump blast Kimmel's time hosting the Oscars in 2024, but the late night host has spent almost every single evening on Jimmy Kimmel Live criticising Trump's politics in recent months. Kimmel was even moved to tears after Trump won the presidency in 2024, calling this a 'terrible night' for democracy and claiming he's on Trump's 'list of enemies.' Trump also took a shot at Jimmy Fallon while praising Fox News late night host Greg Gutfield. 'Greg Gutfield is better than all of them combined, including the Moron on NBC who ruined the once great Tonight Show,' he wrote. CBS announced it made the 'financial decision' to cancel The Late Show in a press release shared Thursday (July 17). The show is set to end in May 2026. 'We consider Stephen Colbert irreplaceable and will retire The Late Show franchise at that time. We are proud that Stephen called CBS home. He and the broadcast will be remembered in the pantheon of greats that graced late night television,' the statement reads, per The Hollywood Reporter. 'This is purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night. It is not related in any way to the show's performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount.' The decision comes just days after Colbert criticised CBS' parent company for reaching a US$16 million (AU$24.5 million) settlement with President Trump after Trump accused 60 Minutes of editing an interview with Kamala Harris to mislead voters during the presidential election. Paramount is currently in the middle of a merger with Skydance Media that will require approval from Trump's administration. 'I don't know if anything — anything — will repair my trust in this company,' Colbert said on The Late Show earlier this week. 'But, just taking a stab at it, I'd say $16 million would help.' Kimmel wasted no time in speaking out in support of Colbert. 'Love you Stephen. F**k you and all your Sheldons CBS,' he wrote on Instagram.
Yahoo
9 hours ago
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- Yahoo
Donald Trump celebrates CBS's end to Stephen Colbert's ‘Late Show'
President Trump said Friday morning that he was thrilled by the news that CBS is canceling the decade-running 'Late Show with Stephen Colbert.' 'I absolutely love that Colbert' got fired,' the president wrote in a post on Truth Social. 'His talent was even less than his ratings.' The president also took aim at ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel and NBC's 'Tonight Show' host Jimmy Fallon, while praising Fox News's Greg Gutfeld, whose talk show 'Gutfeld!' airs an hour earlier than the major late-night shows. 'I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next. Has even less talent than Colbert!' Trump wrote. 'Greg Gutfeld is better than all of them combined, including the Moron on NBC who ruined the once great Tonight Show.' The company's decision has raised eyebrows because it came just days after Colbert publicly took CBS parent company Paramount Global to task for settling a $16 million lawsuit with Trump. The comedian has helmed 'The Late Show' since 2015, when he took over for longtime host David Letterman. The program is the most-watched talk show during the 11:35 p.m. timeslot, averaging nearly 2.5 million viewers during the second quarter of this year. Gutfeld, whose show airs an hour earlier and isn't a direct competitor to CBS's program, averaged roughly 3.3 million viewers per show during the same time frame. The president had a friendly relationship with the conservative host Gutfeld for years. CBS, in its announcement Thursday, called the Colbert cancellation 'purely a financial decision.' 'It is not related in any way to the show's performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount,' the network said in a statement. 'Our admiration, affection and respect for the talents of Stephen Colbert and his incredible team made this agonizing decision even more difficult.' Colbert mocked Paramount Global in his monologue Monday over the CBS parent company's payout to Trump in a dispute over a '60 Minutes' interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris during the 2024 presidential campaign. Paramount is also seeking approval from Trump's Federal Communications Commission for a merger deal with fellow entertainment giant Skydance, Colbert noted. 'I believe this kind of complicated financial settlement with a sitting government official has a technical name in legal circles: It's 'big fat bribe,'' the comedian quipped. Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), who have been guests on Colbert's show, were among Democrats calling for more transparency on the decision. 'America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons,' Warren wrote Thursday on the social platform X. 'If Paramount and CBS ended the Late Show for political reasons, the public deserves to know. And deserves better,' Schiff wrote on X. The California Democrat was a guest on the show Thursday when the news broke. Colbert said during Thursday's episode that he was made aware of the move Wednesday. 'It's not just the end of our show, but it's the end of 'The Late Show' on CBS. I'm not being replaced,' he said. 'This is all just going away.' The comedian also has been one of Trump's fiercest critics and frequently features Democratic guests who oppose the president, including Warren and Schiff. The looming merger and Trump-Paramount settlement had raised some speculation about his future after the president called for Colbert's firing in a Truth Social post last year. Updated at 9:55 a.m. EDT Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Solve the daily Crossword
Daily Mail
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Who is next after Stephen Colbert? The death of late-night TV... and the unlikely conservative star
The axing of Stephen Colbert 's Late Show has been received as a death knell for late night television - but there's still time for one more rising star before the world of cable TV is eclipsed by TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram reels. CBS and its parent company, Paramount, announced that Colbert's show would 'end its historic run' in May 2026, just over a decade after it first launched. 'We consider Stephen Colbert irreplaceable and will retire the Late Show franchise at that time,' the broadcast executives said. 'We are proud that Stephen called CBS home. He and his broadcast will be remembered in the pantheon of greats that graced late night television.' In fact, Colbert, 61, had the best ratings of all the traditional late-night 11.35pm show hosts before he got the chop. The veteran presenter attracted 2.42 million viewers across 41 first-run episodes - easily outpacing ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live! which had 1.77 million, and NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon which had 1.19 million, per LateNighter. According to the TV specialist news site, the Late Show was the only one among nine mainstream programs tracked which drew more viewers in the second quarter of 2025 than the first, with a small audience growth of one percent. So it's no wonder that Colbert's axing has got other left-leaning hosts shaking in their boots. Kimmel, 57, blasted CBS via his Instagram stories. He reposted Colbert's announcement with the caption: 'Love you Stephen. F**k you and all your Sheldons CBS.' Late night talk show host Andy Cohen, 57, also said he was 'stunned' by the news. 'I can't believe CBS is turning off the lights at 11:30 after the local news. I'm stunned. He's one of three late-night shows deemed worthy enough for an Emmy nomination. He produces a brilliant show,' he told Deadline. 'I think it's a sad day for late-night television. I think it's a sad day for CBS. I think Stephen Colbert is a singular talent. He's going to have an incredible next chapter.' While it's likely that Colbert's demise could spark a bonfire of late-night shows like Kimmel's and Cohen's as the younger generation turns to TikTok over TV, there's also an unlikely rising star still attracting viewers to the small screen. Greg Gutfeld on Fox News has been disrupting the TV genre once monopolized by the likes of Colbert, and Seth Meyers, whose Late Night with Seth Meyers show on NBC reigns supreme for post-midnight ratings. Gutfeld! dominated late-night TV ratings in the second quarter of 2025 with an average of three million viewers. This comes with a caveat that the show starts 95 minutes earlier than Colbert's, filling Fox News' 10pm slot, and attracts many of the right-wing network's faithful viewers who watch the network for several hours a day. But it's not all down to timings and Fox's following - as Gutfeld attracted a key demographic of the smartphone generations who are being lost to online media. The show was watched by 365,000 people aged between 25 and 54 in the second quarter of 2025, according to MSN. Gutfeld! has a similar structure to the other late shows, with a monologue, roundtable, recurring gags, and rotating co-hosts, but behind the scenes it's a very different story. The show reportedly runs off a creative team of around 20 people, according to Mediate, making it more authentic than its polished, liberal competitors. As a result, it attracts viewers who wanted real talk over highly-scripted mainstream comedy. The Late Show was also beleaguered by Trump's threats to sue his network, while Fox News enjoyed a post-election boom. Colbert's program was cancelled just days after the host blasted the network's $16 million settlement with President Trump as a 'big fat bribe.' Taking aim at CBS and Paramount Global, Trump's lawsuit accused producers of editing an October interview with Harris to sway public opinion in her favor. The broadcast channel is also facing a probe by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) into whether the interview violated 'news distortion' rules. Complainants said the station broke the law by cherry picking only a portion of Harris' answer to a question about Middle East policy to present her in a favorable light. Trump's lawsuit coincided with a planned $8.4 billion merger between Paramount and Skydance, which requires approval from the FCC. Though the agency is prohibited from censorship or infringing the First Amendment rights of media, broadcasters cannot intentionally distort the news. CBS previously said the complaint aims to turn 'the FCC into a full-time censor of content' which would result in an unconstitutional role and an impossible one for the agency. In January, the FCC's chair Brendan Carr reinstated complaints about the 60 Minutes interview with Harris, as well as complaints about how Walt Disney's ABC News moderated the pre-election TV debate between then-President Joe Biden and Trump. It also reinstated complaints against Comcast's NBC for allowing Harris to appear on 'Saturday Night Live' shortly before the election.
Yahoo
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Donald Trump gloats over Late Show with Stephen Colbert axe
Donald Trump "absolutely loves" that The Late Show with Stephen Colbert has been cancelled. The 61-year-old presenter confirmed that CBS has pulled the plug on his nightly talk show on Thursday (17.07.25), with the final episode set to air in May, and the US president has weighed in on the news, admitting he is delighted that Stephen - who has hosted the programme since 2015 - has been "fired". Trump also couldn't resist taking swipes at two other talk show hosts, Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon. He wrote on Truth Social: 'I absolutely love that Colbert got fired. 'His talent was even less than his ratings. I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next. Has even less talent than Colbert! "[Fox News late night host] Greg Gutfeld is better than all of them combined, including the Moron on NBC who ruined the once great Tonight Show.' Kimmel has offered support to Stephen in the wake of the cancellation. He wrote on Instagram: 'Love you Stephen. F*** you and all your Sheldons CBS.' And The Tonight Show host Fallon was "shocked" by the news. He wrote on Instagram: "I'm just as shocked as everyone. Stephen is one of the sharpest, funniest hosts to ever do it. I really thought I'd ride this out with him for years to come. I'm sad that my family and friends will need a new show to watch every night at 11:30. But honestly, he's really been a gentleman and a true friend over the years — going back to The Colbert Report, and I'm sure whatever he does next will be just as brilliant." Late Night host Seth Meyers has also expressed his support for Stephen. He said on Instagram: "For as great a comedian and host he is, Stephen Colbert is an even better person. I'm going to miss having him on TV every night but I'm excited he can no longer use the excuse that he's 'too busy to hang out' with me." Stephen announced the axing of The Late Show on Thursday. He said: "Before we start the show, I want to let you know something that I found out just last night. Next year will be our last season, the network will be ending The Late Show in May." Stephen - who replaced David Letterman at the helm in 2015 - added: "I'm not being replaced. This is all just going away. I do want to say that the folks at CBS have been great partners … And I'm grateful to the audience, you, who have joined us every night, in here, out there, and all around the world. "I am extraordinarily, deeply grateful to the 200 people who work here. We get to do this show. We get to do this show for each other every day, all day, and I've had the pleasure and the responsibility of sharing what we do every day with you in front of this camera for the last 10 years."
Yahoo
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Donald Trump gloats over Late Show with Stephen Colbert axe
Donald Trump "absolutely loves" that The Late Show with Stephen Colbert has been cancelled. The 61-year-old presenter confirmed that CBS has pulled the plug on his nightly talk show on Thursday (17.07.25), with the final episode set to air in May, and the US president has weighed in on the news, admitting he is delighted that Stephen - who has hosted the programme since 2015 - has been "fired". Trump also couldn't resist taking swipes at two other talk show hosts, Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon. He wrote on Truth Social: 'I absolutely love that Colbert got fired. 'His talent was even less than his ratings. I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next. Has even less talent than Colbert! "[Fox News late night host] Greg Gutfeld is better than all of them combined, including the Moron on NBC who ruined the once great Tonight Show.' Kimmel has offered support to Stephen in the wake of the cancellation. He wrote on Instagram: 'Love you Stephen. F*** you and all your Sheldons CBS.' And The Tonight Show host Fallon was "shocked" by the news. He wrote on Instagram: "I'm just as shocked as everyone. Stephen is one of the sharpest, funniest hosts to ever do it. I really thought I'd ride this out with him for years to come. I'm sad that my family and friends will need a new show to watch every night at 11:30. But honestly, he's really been a gentleman and a true friend over the years — going back to The Colbert Report, and I'm sure whatever he does next will be just as brilliant." Late Night host Seth Meyers has also expressed his support for Stephen. He said on Instagram: "For as great a comedian and host he is, Stephen Colbert is an even better person. I'm going to miss having him on TV every night but I'm excited he can no longer use the excuse that he's 'too busy to hang out' with me." Stephen announced the axing of The Late Show on Thursday. He said: "Before we start the show, I want to let you know something that I found out just last night. Next year will be our last season, the network will be ending The Late Show in May." Stephen - who replaced David Letterman at the helm in 2015 - added: "I'm not being replaced. This is all just going away. I do want to say that the folks at CBS have been great partners … And I'm grateful to the audience, you, who have joined us every night, in here, out there, and all around the world. "I am extraordinarily, deeply grateful to the 200 people who work here. We get to do this show. We get to do this show for each other every day, all day, and I've had the pleasure and the responsibility of sharing what we do every day with you in front of this camera for the last 10 years."
