Jon Stewart blasts CBS over ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’ cancellation

Jon Stewart spat the fire through The Daily Show Scene on CBS canceling Stephen Colbert The late show Last week.

“Listen, I understand the fear of the business. I understand the fear that you and your advertisers have with $ 8 billion at stake,” said Stewart during his monologue in his first episode since the announcement of the decision. “But understand this: really, the programs that you are now looking for to cancel, censor and control, an uncompromising part of this value of $ 8 billion came from these F — ING shows that this is what made you money-shows that say something, the programs that take a stand, programs that are not afraid. Believe me. not.

He added: “And if you believe as a company or as a networks, you can go so harmless, that you can serve a porridge if without flavor, that you will never be on the King of the King of the King of the Boy: (a) Why will someone look at you? And-You are wrong.”

CBS announced on July 17 that The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will end next May and said that the decision was “purely financial”.

“We consider Stephen Colbert irreplaceable and will retire the late franchise for programs at the time. We are proud that Stephen called CBS at his home. He and the broadcast will remember him in the Pantheon of Great who honored late television,” the company announced in a statement.

“This is purely a financial decision against a difficult backdrop at the end of the evening. This is in no way linked to the performances, content or other questions of the program that occur in Paramount,” the statement continued.

However, a range of industry observers has expressed concern that the decision was more fueled by the sale awaiting A Global To Skydance Media, which requires the approval of the administration of President Donald Trump. Colbert has long been a frank critic of Trump.

“CBS canceled Colbert’s program only three days after Colbert called CBS Paramount’s mother company for its $ 16 million regulations with Trump – an agreement that looks like corruption,” wrote Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, on X after the announcement. “America deserves whether its program has been canceled for political reasons.”

In a decision that many in the government, the media and legal circles considered a blow to the protections of the press of the first amendment, Paramount announced in early July that it had settled a case brought by Trump for the edition of a 60 minutes Interview with the former Democratic candidate for the presidential election Kamala Harris.

“Trump now requires a whole press organization to pay millions of dollars for having done something protected by the Constitution – which is, of course, free and independent reports,” said Dan rather, who worked at CBS for 44 years, said the regulations. “Now you take the sale of today. And that’s what it was: it was a sale to the president’s extortion. Who can now say where it all ends?”

Stewart has often used a graphic language when he made his feelings about the decision to cancel his old Daily show Costar Colbert Clear on Monday.

“Since we are on the theme of the capitulation of companies to the whims of an agricultural enigma,” he said, noting that Comedy Central, the network which broadcasts its program, is under the same company parent as the one who canceled Colbert: Paramount Global.

Stewart joked by saying that the end of evening hosts are “all a successful kiosk inside a tour of the turn”.

“But when your industry faces changes, you don’t just call it one day,” he said. “When CDS stopped selling, they did not just say:” Well, music, it was a good race. “The fact that CBS has not tried to save their late evening franchise on the number one network, which has been on the air for more than three decades, which is part of what makes everyone wonder:” Is this fact purely financial, or perhaps the path of the slightest resistance for your merger of 8 billion dollars? “”

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He also torn Trump, who, according to him, is “a fragile and avenging president” who “suffers terribly from a case of chronic insufficiency of a penis”.

“Do you want to know how it is impossible to stay on the right side of the Lord Farquaad?” Stewart asked, comparing the president to the narcissist, authoritarian Shrek Film villain. “Donald Trump continues Rupert Murdoch, the owner of Fox News, the man – apart from Biden – perhaps the most responsible for the election of Trump.”

He underlined his point: “Fox spends 24 hours a day, blowing Trump, and it’s not enough. Imagine pursuing someone halfway. How could you?”

Stewart’s conclusion was that the response at the end of Colbert’s program is “fear and pre -conformity that are grasping all American institutions at the moment – institutions that have chosen not to fight the aircraft and vindictive actions of our commander -in -chief of pubic hairstyle”.

This, he said, “It’s not time to give in. I don’t give in.”

He then sang an energetic song supported by a choir with the frequent refrain, “Go f — You yourself.”

Watch Stewart’s monologue – and sing – in the video above.