Well, it finally happened. The Democrats’ favorite late-night megaphone, Stephen Colbert, is getting the boot. CBS has announced that The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will be going off the air in May 2026, and if you listen closely, you can already hear the wailing from the progressive elite echoing across the internet.
In fact, you don’t have to listen too hard—Elizabeth Warren and Adam Schiff were kind enough to post their grief for all to see. These two are treating Colbert’s departure like it’s a national tragedy. Warren went full tinfoil-hat, insinuating that CBS pulled the plug just three days after Colbert criticized parent company Paramount for settling with Donald Trump over a 60 Minutes lawsuit.
Yes, according to Warren, this is possibly “bribery,” and we all “deserve to know” if Colbert was canceled for political reasons. Translation: “Please tell me Daddy Colbert wasn’t fired for attacking Trump! I can’t lose another safe space!”
Schiff, never one to miss a camera or a chance to look concerned, chimed in too—posting from backstage after filming what may now be his final guest spot on the show. Apparently, he taped a segment, got the bad news, and then ran to X (formerly Twitter, but let’s be honest, it’s still a trash fire) to proclaim his disappointment that this might have been politically motivated.
Let’s be real. Was it political? Possibly. But here’s another theory: Maybe The Late Show got canned because people are tired of being condescended to by overpaid liberals hiding behind a desk and calling it comedy. Maybe viewers don’t want another round of “orange man bad” monologues delivered with the same smirk and cadence as a smug college RA.
The truth is, Colbert stopped being funny the moment Trump was elected. He didn’t evolve—he calcified into a predictable, DNC-approved parody of himself. Every joke was a rerun. Every guest was either preaching the same ideology or being awkwardly pulled into some lecture about vaccines, climate change, or why it’s brave to wear a mask alone in your car.
Warren and Schiff are mourning because The Late Show wasn’t just a talk show—it was a reliable delivery system for their talking points, disguised as humor. Colbert would say the quiet part out loud for them, so they didn’t have to. He was the prime-time mouthpiece who could wrap Democrat messaging in a laugh track and make it palatable to the coastal elite who still think NPR is edgy.
But here’s the kicker: Gen Z and Millennials aren’t watching CBS. They’re on YouTube, TikTok, and Spotify—getting their political takes from Rogan, Russell Brand, and whoever else doesn’t talk to them like they’re freshmen at Berkeley. Colbert’s audience aged faster than Joe Biden at a stairwell.
Meanwhile, people still remember Colbert dancing around the stage flanked by people dressed as syringes, singing about vaccines like it was a Broadway audition for Pfizer. That wasn’t comedy. That was state-sponsored pharmaceutical propaganda with a studio audience.
And let’s not forget—one of Colbert’s finest moments was on election night 2016, when the mask dropped completely. Watching him stammer, pale, and nearly cry as the results rolled in was the kind of television that should be preserved in a vault next to the Declaration of Independence.
So no, this isn’t some great injustice. It’s just the free market doing what it does best—eliminating the irrelevant.
Stephen Colbert is leaving. Not because he was brave. Not because he stood up to power. But because his show is stale, his schtick is tired, and the American people—especially those outside the MSNBC echo chamber—have stopped laughing.
Good riddance.
