When will The Late Show with Stephen Colbert finally be the last show with Stephen Colbert? It turns out that it will occur sometime in May 2026. However, it is a mystery why CBS is waiting so long to get rid of this vapid and unfunny "comedian" who has been a chronic and embarrassing promoter of Democratic politics and, like all late night hosts these days, was so slavishly partisan that he found absolutely no humor or even news value in the sorry performance of former President Joe Biden, whom Hollywood continued to prop up until his mental decline became so painfully evident that it became too impossible not to acknowledge reality.
Did Colbert ever remark about how Biden would routinely identify people in the audience at White House events who weren't even there, or in one case, could not possibly be there because they were dead? There were also the famous instances of Biden not being quite sure how to exit the stage and looking like he wasn't quite sure how he had gotten on the stage in the first place.
It is unclear why Colbert continued to occupy his stage at New York's Ed Sullivan Theater. Still, it is entirely understandable that the network's decision to cancel his act was based not on some kind of sinister political decision but on sheer economics. Fewer and fewer people are watching this kind of theater of the absurd—the network reported losses of some $40 million per year. When President Donald Trump applauded the decision to cut Colbert, the nasty Man of La Nausea issued a statement that was entirely representative of his intellectual depth: he told Trump to "go f*ck yourself."
Don't go away mad, Stephen, just go away.
Colbert inherited a highly successful enterprise which launched with David Letterman on CBS in 1993. Letterman may have been a tad sophomoric at times but he was never as banal as late-night comedy has become. In recent years the time slot has been hijacked by leftist and uber-liberal hosts and writing teams who eschew any jokes that might be interpreted as attacks on Democratic politicians. Instead, they have developed a style of comedy that is cruel and funny as a hit-and-run accident. The live audiences who occupy the studio seats at these shows don't even laugh at the jokes, which are more like diatribes, but instead clap. Nobody finds any of this funny, but rather an affirmation of their political biases.
Colbert ran the Letterman legacy into the ground as his act became more ridiculous with each passing year.
It has been said that conservatives have difficulty laughing at themselves, but surely that is criticism that would be more truthfully applied to liberals these days. They cannot for a minute stop taking themselves so seriously while they demonize the opposition as inept, ruthless, and unworthy of anything but abject dismissal.
Some of us can recall a late-night landscape that was entirely different, so different that it might have been a product of an alternate universe.
We were never quite sure who the great Johnny Carson voted for. Perhaps he shifted his political allegiance depending on the local candidate or the party's presidential nominee, much like a celebrity from that era, such as Frank Sinatra, moved from the Democrats to the Republicans. But Carson was never mean to politicians, and he could skewer the late President Lyndon Johnson without ever appearing malicious. He never crossed the line with President Richard Nixon, either, even though that might have been tempting during the height of the Watergate scandal.
Despite Trump's current difficulties with Ukraine and the Epstein files, there remains so much to cheer about from this Republican administration, such as the success at sealing the southern border, the eradication of DEI, the end of funding for state broadcasting, or even Trump's demand that the Washington Commanders become the Washington Redskins again.
The end of the Stephen Colbert show is another sign that America is coming back to its senses again and acknowledging that BS television is nothing more than a BS experience.
