The Late Show’s Stephen Colbert tempted fate when he called Paramount Global’s $16 million settlement with President Donald Trump a “big fat bribe” earlier this week. Three days later, CBS announced it would end his show after the upcoming 2025-2026 season.
But despite CBS’ decision to essentially follow Trump’s instructions and cancel The Late Show after its next season, which it attributes solely to a “financial decision,” one person who knows Colbert well says his outspoken nature would have always come before the show—even through his last day in May 2026.
“Stephen is a person who really thinks about service as part of his life,” Allison Silverman, who spent four years as Colbert’s head writer on Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report, told the Daily Beast. “He is Catholic. His faith is really important to him, and I think that from it, he’s taken this dedication to service, and I think that he is seeing something in this situation that’s about serving something more important than Paramount or Skydance.”
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