Colbert’s final week on CBS delivered a 11:35 ratings blowout, outdrawing Fallon and Kimmel combined across both total viewers and adults 18–49.

Colbert has specifically defended PBS on-air. In April 2025, after the Trump administration announced plans to rescind $1.1 billion in federal funding from NPR and PBS, he joked on The Late Show that ...

Morgan Neville’s Lorne is making the move to streaming. The documentary about Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels will debut on Peacock Friday, June 5, following its theatrical release by Focus ...

Jimmy Fallon is headed back to primetime next week with a new season of Password—and NBC is giving the show more than just a single summer berth. Season 3 of the Keke Palmer-hosted game show, which ...

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert may be over, but Stephen Colbert’s charity auction habit appears to have survived the finale. Also up for bid: two autographed pieces of the Only in Monroe set—the ...

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If John Oliver’s new jingle gets stuck in your head, he hopes it stops you from calling JG Wentworth. The Last Week Tonight host closed out Sunday’s episode with a full-scale parody of the company’s ...

Stephen Colbert’s exit from The Late Show has prompted tributes from fans, fellow hosts, and now, apparently, Death. Leave it to a Swedish creative lab to mark Colbert’s farewell not with a highlight ...

Byron Allen marked Comics Unleashed’s arrival in CBS’ 11:35 p.m. timeslot Friday night by paying tribute to Colbert, ...

The Worst of “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” (Not A Clip Show!) ...

Get stories like this in your inbox: Sign up for LateNighter’s free daily newsletter. First on LateNighter: Stephen Colbert left CBS late night last Thursday night, but viewers kept watching. Nielsen ...

Turns out Stephen Colbert could not be fully known in just 25 minutes. On Thursday night’s series finale of The Late Show ...