“If CBS is just not prepared to put money into leisure & defend its information exhibits, who wants them?

The announcement of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert‘s impending cancellation has drawn surprise and frustration from many, including Colbert’s fellow late evening hosts.

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Colbert himself dropped the stunning information on Thursday, clarifying that he wasn’t being changed as host, however quite, that CBS was merely axing the present totally.

“This is all just going away,” he stated.

Other late evening hosts react

Jimmy Kimmel was the primary of the opposite late-night hosts to publicly react to the information, taking to his Instagram Stories to put in writing, “Love you Stephen. F*** you and all your Sheldons CBS.”

Jimmy Fallon additionally used Instagram Stories to share his ideas on the cancellation, admitting he was “just as shocked as everyone.”

“Stephen is one of the sharpest, funniest hosts to ever do it,” he wrote. “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.”

Seth Meyers additionally weighed in on his Instagram tales, calling Stephen a “great host” and “an even better person.”

CBS insisted that The Late Show‘s demise is a monetary determination, and whereas that could be true, the timing is deeply suspicious.

Just days earlier than the announcement, Colbert had made a degree to criticize the community’s mother or father firm, Paramount, for settling a lawsuit with President Donald Trump over a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris.

Colbert referred to the $16 million settlement as a “big, fat bribe” from Paramount in hopes that the Trump administration would permit their proposed merger with Skydance to undergo.

The timing is so suspicious, the truth is, that the Writers Guild of America subsequently put out a scathing assertion calling on the New York State Attorney General to conduct a full investigation into the cancellation.

Trump himself didn’t assuage any of those issues when he made a degree to rejoice The Late Show‘s cancelation on Truth Social, writing, “I absolutely love that Colbert’ received fired” and suggesting Jimmy Kimmel must be subsequent.

Social media stays skeptical

The optics right here clearly aren’t nice. The complete scenario has lots of people antsy about what this may signify for the way forward for free speech within the United States, in addition to simply how keen firms could also be to throw folks and ideas beneath the bus to get in mattress with the Trump administration.