joeybakerJul 18, 2025
Jeff Jarvis
Fuck CBS, Paramount, Ellison. This is no "financial decision." It is Trump taking over American media. This is Hungary. This is disgusting.
CBS to Cancel ‘Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ Citing ‘Financial Decision’ https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/cbs-cancel-late-show-stephen-colbert-financial-decision-1236464356/
CBS to Cancel 'Late Show With Stephen Colbert' Citing Finances

CBS said it planned to cancel Stephen Colbert's Late Show after next season, citing the weakening finances of late night

Variety
Jul 18, 2025 at 12:19amWeb
Show threadJeff JarvisJul 18, 2025
Variety tiptoes: Ellison "has projected an image of being intrigued by the politics espoused by President Donald Trump." Yeesh.
Show threadgtbarryJul 18, 2025
@jeffjarvis WHAT?!!?!??!?!
Show threadMary trying to copeJul 18, 2025
@jeffjarvis I hope they both open a media company. This is beyond bad.
Show thread(((Cindy Weinstein)))Jul 18, 2025

@jeffjarvis

What a grotesque sentence. You mean interested in fascism? You mean he's a fascist?

Show threadDoNotPunchDownJul 18, 2025

@jeffjarvis

I'm waiting for Monday when either Jon Stewart isn't on or he announces the end of The Daily Show

Show threadben morettiJul 18, 2025
@jeffjarvis you know who his dad is
Show threadArmin HanischJul 18, 2025
@jeffjarvis Just go back about a century and look up the German word "Gleichschaltung". The US as a democratic society already passed the point of no return.
Show threadFrank Bennett 🇯🇵Jul 18, 2025
@jeffjarvis The word is "channeling." Not "intrigued by." "Channeling."
Show threadStarkRGJul 18, 2025
@jeffjarvis What a weird way to say he's a Nazi.
Show threadJeff JarvisJul 18, 2025
Mass media are dead. That's what I've been writing about the last decade and a half. Good riddance. Trump will control the husk of what once was, as worthless as he. We must fight for an open internet as our last stand.
Show threadIrenes (many)Jul 18, 2025
@jeffjarvis yes, agreed
Show threadMastodon MigrationJul 18, 2025

@jeffjarvis

💯 !!!

Show threadCodeByJeffJul 18, 2025

@jeffjarvis This.

Colbert has $75million last count

Let him set up his own "network" - not just "please donate" but a regular show with ads

I'd be patient for those

Show threadFloonJul 18, 2025
@jeffjarvis The battle for an open Internet was lost long ago.
Show threadBrokarJul 18, 2025

@jeffjarvis I watch 4 shows/people periodically (on Youtube)

- Jon Stewart
- Stephen Colbert
- Jimmy Kimmel
- Seth Meyers

He's starting to silence his most watched critics and robs me of a quarter of my quality time during lunch breaks.
One more reason to hate him.

Show threadLisa Gets PolitikJul 18, 2025
@jeffjarvis Just looked and Colbert was top rated in Nielsen ratings, with a growing viewership. This is bullshit.
Show threadacmJul 18, 2025
@lisagetspolitik @jeffjarvis https://www.rawstory.com/stephen-colbert-2673354726/
Comedian's show axed after blasting CBS-Trump deal as 'big fat bribe'

CBS will end Stephen Colbert's "Late Show" next season after the comedian openly criticized the network and its parent company, Paramount, over a settlement with President Donald Trump.CBS executives insisted in a statement that the cancellation was "purely a financial decision."“We consider Stephen...

Raw Story
Show threadNYCNerdJul 18, 2025
@jeffjarvis Have you _been_ to his shows? He's just not as funny as he used to be. Once his warmup comic even joked about that at a different event. You have to be funny in that business.
Show threadwaarismijnhoofdJul 18, 2025
@nroth @jeffjarvis
Of course not. It’s all about viewership, and his ratings went through the roof. No network CFO would want to cancel their cash cow
Show threadSheilaJul 18, 2025
@jeffjarvis this makes me so angry and so sad. Stephen Colbert is my very favorite show.
Show threadDane 🌎🖖✌️☮️⚛️☸️🕉️Jul 18, 2025
@jeffjarvis May all involved in this decision drown in a sea of profit death.
Show threadgriff (trip) ferrell @ sharkey.worldJul 18, 2025
@jeffjarvis

This was the only thing I have been watching on CBS
Show threadnoplasticshowerJul 18, 2025
@jeffjarvis yeah but who watches TV anymore?
Show threadP_______XJul 18, 2025
@jeffjarvis it'd be funny if Colbert ran for political office in exchange:)
Show threadSassyLassy369Jul 18, 2025
@jeffjarvis the media is obsessed with ratings not facts
Show threaduncomfortably numbJul 18, 2025
@jeffjarvis Between this and not funding PBS this is certainly the end of democracy.
Show threadxs4me2Jul 18, 2025

@jeffjarvis

Despicable…

Show threadIsabelJul 18, 2025
@jeffjarvis Financial reasons?! Caving to DT. Colbert will be just fine. He has a strong following and doesn’t need CBS. CBS on the other hand will suffer.
Show threadKee HinckleyJul 18, 2025
@jeffjarvis @inthehands The financial part being how Trump will screw them if they don't follow his orders?
Show thread@martlund 🌲🐶🇸🇪🇨🇱🌈Jul 18, 2025
@jeffjarvis The fukkin man-child is trying to eliminate ALL opposition as in FASCISM 101
Show threadRegressionToTheMemeJul 18, 2025
@jeffjarvis Well, it's a financial decision of a sort... Financial suicide. 😏
Show threadNZChineseGenealogyJul 18, 2025
@jeffjarvis send him a 1 way ticket to NZ - He can be our advertising man
Show threadJohn Carlsen 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇪🇺Jul 18, 2025

Not all mergers should be allowed...

"There has been growing speculation that both Colbert and Jon Stewart, who hosts one broadcast of Comedy Central’s 'Daily Show' each week, could be under growing scrutiny from executives at Skydance Media, which is slated to acquire Paramount Global, the parent of both CBS and Comedy Central. David Ellison, who leads Skydance, has projected an image of being intrigued by the politics espoused by President Donald Trump, who Colbert and Stewart routinely skewer in monologues and commentary.

Indeed, Senator Adam Schiff, the California Democrat, took to social media Thursday after taping a 'Late Show' broadcast and said: 'If Paramount and CBS ended the Late Show for political reasons, the public deserves to know. And deserves better.'"

#uspol

Show threadDeanFarrellJul 18, 2025
@jeffjarvis How long until MSNBC fires Lawrence O'Donnell?
Show threadKielKontrovers BlogJul 18, 2025
@jeffjarvis thats the real #CANCELCULTURE
Show threadToni AittoniemiJul 18, 2025
@jeffjarvis The rich always obey first. They have the most to lose, and the tyrant can take revenge on them the fullest.
Show threadAhoJul 18, 2025

@jeffjarvis It's a financial decision as the "president" would sue them for hundreds of millions if they kept the program

With all the law suite threats, it feels more like russian media takeover.

Show threadUlla RajalaJul 18, 2025
@jeffjarvis Hope Comedy Channel picks it up! 😁
Show threadJeff JarvisJul 18, 2025
@UllaMR
Guess who owns Comedy Central: the same corrupt corporation.
Show threadËtikēmikJul 18, 2025
@UllaMR @jeffjarvis If you mean Comedy Central, that seems unlikely, since they’re owned by the same company as CBS. I wouldn’t be too surprised to see The Daily Show cancelled, also.
Show threadUlla RajalaJul 18, 2025
@etikemik @jeffjarvis Yes, Comedy Central. Damn. They need an independent outlet. I doubt if any broadcaster in the US is brave enough. US is a new Hungary...
Show threadJeff JarvisJul 18, 2025
@UllaMR @etikemik
Broadcast is dead. Mass media are dead.
Show threadTom DB 🦣Jul 18, 2025
@jeffjarvis I hope he starts his own YouTube comedy show STILL CRITICIZING the crap out of djt.
Show threadMiakoda Jul 18, 2025
@jeffjarvis Exactly what I said when @cmdrmoto told me
Show threadMinskiJul 18, 2025
@jeffjarvis Well - it's kinda financial. One you paid 16 Million dollars to a politician, it would render that investment moot if you still employ critical voices...
Show threadHelga Numberger 🐧Jul 18, 2025

@jeffjarvis Whaaaaat ??? 😱😱😱

Are they nuts?! I LOVE Stephen Colbert. Due to the time difference, I can't watch it live, but I watch a lot later on YouTube. His kind of humor is so great, and in my opinion the best among all late night hosts I know.

I'm really shocked 😲

Show threadGraeme 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Jul 18, 2025
@jeffjarvis Life in Trumpistan seems to be getting worse by the hour.
Show threadIamJoosyJul 18, 2025
@jeffjarvis Very sad news, indeed. Colbert and Steward beeing my favorite late night show hosts.
Show threadBen FooteJul 18, 2025
@jeffjarvis Fuckin' A.
Show threadKody KeirJul 18, 2025

@jeffjarvis

I am gutted by what I see happening in America.

I do not know if America will still be a democracy in 2026.

Stephen will fight on, we all will; let's not be discouraged by this turn of events.

Elbows up!

Show threadReiner Jung 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 🇪🇺Jul 18, 2025
@jeffjarvis #WTF while this a horrible development, it is also not a surprise at all. I'd expected this since the election of the orange fuhrer. Hopefully, the people of the Late Show will be able to excel for the remaining shows and be even more political than ever.
Show threadhackersquirrelJul 19, 2025
@jeffjarvis
Bribery is 'financial'.
Show threadDiffgeometer1Jul 21, 2025
@jeffjarvis Americans need to boycott cbs and paramount.