Stephen Colbert isn’t willing to say his show was cut because his network bent the knee to Trump—but he’s still suspicious about the timing.
The Late Show host, 61, told the New York Times that before his show was suddenly axed, just days after calling out CBS’s parent company, Paramount, for the “big fat bribe” he called its $16 million settlement to the president over its 60 Minutes interview with a political opponent, the network had tried to lock him into a contract as long as five years.
Paramount called ending The Late Show a “purely financial decision” at the time, as it awaited approval from Donald Trump’s administration to merge with Skydance.
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