Although The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Coming to an end without ceremony, Conan O’Brien is convinced that his host is not going.
While speaking on Saturday during his enthronement to the temple of the fame of Television Academy, the actor winner of the Emmy 5x praised Colbert as “too talented and too essential” and shared his reflections on the future of television at the end of the evening.
“Yes, the late evening television as we have known since around 1950 will disappear. But these voices are going nowhere,” said O’Brien. “People like Stephen Colbert are too talented and too essential to disappear. It will not happen. ”
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Meanwhile, Paramount is under fire to cancel The late show In the case of the company’s $ 16 million dollars with Trump, which was considered potential corruption by certain legislators. After the jokes of Colbert at the expense of the president, Trump celebrated the disappearance of the talk show.
George Cheeks, president of CBS of TV Media, said that “the economy of the talk show has made a challenge for us to continue”. Jeff Shell, president of Paramount under his new acquisition of Skydance, showed his support for the decision, explaining: “The night has a huge problem at the moment. … You can no longer make it work economically.”
By passing through the earth burned on CBS before his departure from May 2026, Colbert recently launched the job search when signing the summer break since The late show. “Netflix, call me I am available in June,” he said last weekend on the show. “I will also entertain Amazon’s offers.”
