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NextImg:‘Cultural Zeitgeist’; CBS, NBC Beclown Themselves as Leftist Tools Celebrating Colbert

Despite having already spent nearly 12 minutes (11:38) on Friday morning decrying the stunning news of CBS cancelling The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in May 2026, CBS Mornings and NBC’s Today returned to do more pouting Tuesday about this show as one of many (far-left) late-night comedy as part of both media “institutions” and the “cultural Zeitgeist” as evidenced by Monday’s “star-filled show of unity.”

This time, they added eight minutes and five seconds to the pile (excluding teases and their third-hour editions) with CBS featuring not one, but two segments bemoaning this as though Colbert himself, not the show, had passed away. Thankfully, as we’ll see, co-host Tony Dokoupil provided a much-needed reality check.

After closing the first hour’s Eye Opener with a slew of soundbites from Colbert and other liberal late-night hosts, co-host and Democrat donor Gayle King gushed that Colbert will “have lots of jobs and lots of offers” plus “lots of friends and people are really cheering him on.”

Co-host Nate Burleson was also laudatory: “He seems like he’s dialing it up a little bit. Shoutout to Colbert.”

Featured co-host Vladimir Duthiers — whose wife is the Emmy Award-winner showrunner for another extremely partisan comedy show, HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver — took the assignment to celebrate Monday’s late-night group therapy sessions for liberals.

“With 10 months left on the iconic Ed Sullivan Theater stage, Stephen Colbert wasted no time taking on a frequent target...making it clear that his attacks on President Donald Trump are here to stay until next May,” he began.

He then played more anti-Trump soundbites (click “expand”):

COLBERT [on CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, 07/21/25]: I don’t care for him.

DUTHIERS: That line may have been diplomatic, but it was his reaction to reading back the President’s Truth Social post where he relished CBS’s decision to cancel the show that was anything but.

COLBERT [on CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, 07/21/25]: [IN TRUMP VOICE] “I absolutely love that Colbert got fired. His talent was even less than his ratings.” Thank you. [BOOS] How — how — how dare you? How dare you, sir. Would an untalented man be able to compose the following satirical witticism? Go [EXPLETIVE] yourself. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

DUTHIERS: The cancellation comes two weeks after Paramount agreed to a $16 million settlement with Trump in which he alleged CBS News deceptively edited an interview with Democratic nominee, Kamala Harris before last year’s presidential election, an accusation Paramount has always said was completely without merit. Colbert fiercely criticized the settlement at the time.

OLBERT [on CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, 06/14/25]: Now, I believe this kind of complicated financial settlement with a sitting government official has a technical name in legal circles. It’s big fat bribe.

DUTHIERS: Paramount, the parent company of CBS said the decision to cancel the show was purely financial against a challenging backdrop in late night, but that decision continues to be sharply criticized. All while, Colbert’s talk show brethren sat in solidarity by lampooning the now infamous Coldplay jumbotron incident.

COLBERT [on CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, 07/21/25]: I want to thank you so much for being here. You know, on my last show.

WEIRD AL YANKOVIC [on CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, 07/21/25]: Steve, you’re here for 10 more months.

The show returned to Colbert as part of their “What to Watch” block. Duthiers led off with the comical declaration that “the media world that is still reeling from the cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” and boasting of the “huge support from his fellow late night hosts.”

He cued up two clips of The Daily Show host Jon Stewart blasting CBS and, with a f-bomb, arguing The Daily Show and The Late Show have contributed to parent company Paramount’s $8 billion value and thus the latter shouldn’t be rewarded with what he saw as an act of censorship.

It was here that Duthiers dubbed these shows part of America’s “cultural Zeitgeist”:

Dokoupil gave a succinct counter to this, emphasizing both the largesse of the show and the previously ignored fact that late-night comedy shows are no longer unifying:

King summarily dismissed all that: “I hear you, but I think many people feel there is another way to do it. You know, it’s just — it’s a very difficult position to be in. But to disagree with something that a company is doing, but also still loving your job and loving what you do, I feel — I really feel for Stephen Colbert.”

To make sure he wasn’t celebrating people being laid off (or might be, in The Daily Show’s case), Dokoupil made clear he “feel[s] for the whole staff of both of those shows and whatever comes next for everybody.”

And yet, the show had more to say. King closed the second hour’s “Eye Opener” by gushing of “Colbert’s late-night rivals gather[ing] with other stars in musical support over CBS’s controversial decision” and hyping it’ll “be an interesting 10 months.”

CBS Mornings Plus also played the role of corporate stooge, down to reairing much of Duthiers’s piece from the first show.

Back live afterward, Duthiers referenced the “very robust discussion about what this means on the 7:00 show and the political landscape has shifted, but certainly the economics have shifted when it comes to linear television and that is behind the decision here.”

He added he’s “a child and a student of television and so, there’s a certain nostalgia associated with these shows.”

Dokoupil added more welcome perspective. Conceding “it’s all I hear about from people on social media” and that “many things are true in this case,” he called out those who cut the cord:

[P]eople keep complaining and it’s like, you moved out of town and then they closed the old park in town and they’re upset and it’s like, well, you left the tax base, right? You weren’t supporting the park, so the park shut down...If all — if all the people that are complaining about the cancellation were actually watching in a linear fashion, the money situation would be a whole different one.

NBC’s Today was more of the same, minus the personal connection. Co-host Savannah Guthrie boasted in a tease of the “show of support” with “[s]tars and fellow late-night hosts make a surprise appearance on Stephen Colbert’s show in the wake of his cancellation by CBS...Straight ahead, how they came to rally behind Colbert.”

Correspondent and NBC News NOW host Joe Fryer was again given the task of shoveling this liberal drivel: “The tone was light, but they were there delivering a serious message of support. Overnight, a star-filled show of unity as Stephen Colbert reflected on last week’s stunning cancellation of The Late Show.”

In between a blow-by-blow of the celebrity cameos, Fryer touted Stewart “bash[ing] the decision, saying it’s politically motivated after Colbert criticized the Trump administration” plus Oliver, who told NBC it’s “heartbreaking” “many future comedy writers” won’t be “raised on Stephen has done.”

Still not offering an ideological label to this entire industry, Fryer closed by throwing a bone to Paramount executives, saying they’ve maintained the cancellation wasn’t due to content.

NBC’s 3rd Hour of Today followed CBS’s lead with resurrecting the voice-over portions of their report.

“A parade of comedy legends and late-night hosts making a surprise appearances on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert following its sudden cancellation. All the laughs and highlights from a star-studded night,” co-host Al Roker boasted in a tease.

To see the relevant transcripts from July 22, click here (for CBS Mornings), here (for CBS Mornings Plus), here (for NBC’s Today), and here (for NBC’s 3rd Hour of Today).