Liberal comedian Jon Stewart in a Monday evening on-air outburst lashed out at CBS News and its parent company Paramount for canceling The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, repeatedly telling the network to "go fuck yourself."

Stewart, a longtime Trump critic and part-time host of Comedy Central's The Daily Show, during Monday's episode led a gospel-style choir in singing, "Go fuck yourself," to CBS. The outburst followed his monologue tearing into Paramount, the parent company of CBS and Comedy Central, for agreeing to settle Trump's multimillion-dollar lawsuit.

Minutes later, Colbert delivered his own "go fuck yourself" to President Donald Trump, who had mocked him and other liberal late-night hosts in a Friday Truth Social post. "I absolutely love that Colbert got fired," Trump wrote. "His talent was even less than his ratings. I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next. Has even less talent than Colbert! Greg Gutfeld is better than all of them combined, including the Moron on NBC who ruined the once great Tonight Show."

Stewart has a long history of anti-Trump rhetoric, dating back to Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. He has called Trump a "thin-skinned" "man-baby" and lambasted most of Trump's policies, particularly on illegal immigration and DEI, and once pledged to leave Earth in a rocket ship should Trump move into the White House.

Colbert, who took over the Late Show from David Letterman in 2015, also leans into anti-Trump rhetoric and progressive politics. Last week, he slammed CBS's planned million-dollar payout as a "big fat bribe," suggesting that the network wants to curry favor with the Trump administration to secure approval of Paramount's pending merger with Skydance Media.

CBS insisted in Thursday's announcement that canceling Colbert's show is "purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night" and "not related in any way to the show's performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount."

The Late Show has been losing $40 million per year, a source told Reuters.