Late night time discuss present hosts have rallied round Stephen Colbert after The Late Present was canceled by CBS.
Colbert, 61, introduced the information through the Thursday, July 17, episode taping of his late night time present, saying, “Earlier than we begin the present I need to let you recognize one thing that I discovered simply final night time. Subsequent yr can be our final season, the community [CBS] can be ending The Late Present in Could.”
Because the viewers booed, he continued: “I share your emotions. It’s not simply the tip of our present but it surely’s the tip of The Late Present on CBS. I’m not being changed. That is all simply going away. I do need to say that the oldsters at CBS have been nice companions … And I’m grateful to the viewers, you, who’ve joined us each night time, in right here, on the market, and all around the globe.”
CBS executives launched an announcement addressing their choice that very same day, revealing a “monetary” alternative led to the cancellation and it was not “associated in any approach to the present’s efficiency, content material or different issues taking place at Paramount.”
Colbert friends’ Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon and extra late night time hosts have since spoken out in help of Colbert:
Jimmy Kimmel
Kimmel, 57, who hosts Jimmy Kimmel Stay! on ABC, reposted a clip of Colbert’s announcement by way of his Instagram Story with the caption, “Love you Stephen. F*** you and all of your Sheldons CBS.”
Andy Cohen
The Watch What Occurs Stay host advised Deadline: “I believe it’s a tragic day for late-night tv. I believe it’s a tragic day for CBS. I believe Stephen Colbert is a singular expertise. He’s going to have an unbelievable subsequent chapter.”
“I can’t imagine CBS is popping off the lights at 11:30 after the native information. I’m shocked,” he added. “He’s certainly one of three late-night reveals deemed worthy sufficient for an Emmy nomination. He produces a superb present.”
Jimmy Fallon
“I’m simply as shocked as everybody,” Fallon, 50 who hosts The Tonight Present, wrote by way of an Instagram story. “Stephen is likely one of the sharpest, funniest hosts to ever do it. I actually thought I’d experience this out with him for years to come back. I’m unhappy that my household and associates will want a brand new present to look at each night time at 11:30. However truthfully, he’s actually been a gentleman and a real pal through the years, going again to The Colbert Report, and I’m positive no matter he does subsequent can be simply as good.”
Seth Meyers
The Late Evening With Seth Meyers host publicly supported his colleague.
“For as nice a comic and host he’s, Stephen Colbert is a good higher particular person,” Meyers, 51, wrote by way of Instagram. “I’m going to overlook having him on TV each night time however I’m excited he can not use the excuse that he’s ‘too busy to hang around’ with me.”
John Oliver
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“Clearly, I like Stephen, I like his workers, I like that present — it’s extremely unhappy. I’m partly excited to see what they’re gonna do for the subsequent 10 months,” the Final Week Tonight host advised reporters. “It’s horrible, horrible information for the world of comedy.”
Oliver stated, “Late-night reveals imply so much to me, not simply because I work in them, as a result of even rising up in England, I’d watch Letterman’s present, which in fact was Stephen’s present, and take into consideration what a glamorous world that was”
He added, “So to have gotten to have been on Letterman’s present and Stephen’s present was all the time one of the enjoyable issues. So it’s very, very, very unhappy information. I sit up for seeing what [Colbert is] gonna do subsequent as a result of that man won’t cease.”
