John Oliver, the host of HBO’s “Final Week Tonight,” this weekend expressed his disappointment at CBS’ resolution to cancel “The Late Present with Stephen Colbert.”
Oliver — a frequent visitor on his onetime “Day by day Present” colleague Stephen Colbert’s late-night program — described the transfer as “extremely unhappy” and “horrible, horrible information for the world of comedy.”
However the English American comic added: “I’m partly excited to see what they’re gonna do for the following 10 months.”
“It’s very, very, very unhappy information,” Oliver said. “I sit up for seeing what he’s going to do subsequent as a result of that man won’t cease.”
Colbert’s last episode will air in Could 2026.
CBS introduced the tip of “The Late Present” franchise — which started below David Letterman in 1993 and which Colbert took over in 2015 — final week.
The community claimed it’s “purely a monetary resolution towards a difficult backdrop in late evening” and mentioned it’s not associated “in any approach to the present’s efficiency, content material or different issues taking place at Paramount.”
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Colbert is a vocal critic of President Donald Trump and earlier this month slammed CBS guardian firm Paramount World’s authorized settlement with the president.
