RoidingOldManCBS to Cancel ‘Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ Citing ‘Financial Decision’
This sucks to see. Hopefully he’ll get picked up somewhere else and go back to a format closer to what the Colbert report used to be.
Yeah I didn’t really enjoy prim and proper corporate Colbert. His show was pretty mediocre. I believe it was also his decision to step away from his original persona and move on to a standard talk show host, so he actually wanted that change. Ferguson is still the GOAT for me.
boydsterI thought it was because Comedy Central had a claimed trademark or something regarding the character he played, but it’s been a while so I might be misremembering
He didn’t want to mix the Colbert character with the Late Night show.
Irrelevant and refuted by Colbert’s own words, but ok. Viacom quite literally wouldn’t allow it.
hollywoodreporter.com/…/stephen-colbert-colbert-r…
But on Wednesday night’s Late Show, the real Stephen Colbert indicated that Comedy Central’s legal team is barring his old character from appearing on CBS.
“This is true, immediately after that show, CBS’ top lawyer was contacted by the top lawyer for another company to say that the character Stephen Colbert is their intellectual property,” the real Stephen Colbert said on Wednesday.
He continued, “So it is with a heavy heart that I announce that thanks to corporate lawyers, the character Stephen Colbert, host of The Colbert Report, will never be seen again.”
The audience began to boo but the Late Show host insisted there was nothing he could do.
“I feel the same way, but what can I do? The lawyers have spoken. I cannot reasonably argue I own my face or name,” he said. “And as much as I’d like to have that guy on again, I can’t.”
