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CSotD: Resorting to Humor

Boris sums up a truly wretched week and my morning perusal of the news made me angry enough that I decided maybe we need a second Humpday today. But the good news, and there is some, is that people don’t seem to be taking it all lying down, as indicated by this series of quotes […]

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Judd Apatow Pens Earnest Essay About Importance Of Late-Night TV: “The Hosts We Have Now … Are Going To Fight Until Their Last Breath”

Writer, producer and director Judd Apatow penned an earnest essay about the importance of late-night television — and safeguarding it in the American consciousness — as last week saw the shuttering of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and end of the CBS franchise begun by David Letterman. In a tribute for Rolling Stone, the […]

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Jon Stewart’s ‘Daily Show’ Gets Surprise Visit From Olivia Munn In Sendup Of Stephen Colbert’s Goodbye Week: “No One Cares If You Leave”

Back from the holiday vacation, Jon Stewart began his Monday night stint at The Daily Show in desperate need of “some good news.” “I need some relief. And I’ll tell you why. Because as many of you know, that big Freedom 250 concert that I’ve so been looking forward to,” he began sarcastically, pausing for […]

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Jill Biden Admits She Thought Joe Biden Was “Having A Stroke” During Disastrous 2024 Debate With Trump: “I Had Never Ever Seen Joe Like That”

Watching the 2024 debate with Donald Trump that killed Joe Biden’s re-election hopes, then-First Lady Dr. Jill Biden now admits she thought her husband might actually be dying or in medical danger onstage. “I don’t know what happened,” Dr. Biden tells CBS News Sunday Morning‘s Rita Braver in a piece set to run this weekend. […]

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Colbert Finale: Joe Biden & Hillary Clinton Praise ‘Late Show’ Host’s Decade Long CBS Run; Ex-POTUS Says “America Could Always Count On A Laugh”

Donald Trump has unsurprisingly promised to chime in later on long time foe Stephen Colbert’s late night departure tonight, but two of the ex-Apprentice host’s political rivals Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton have already had their say on the Late Show finale. There aren’t many who can make people think and laugh at the same […]

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Seth Meyers On Upcoming Final Episode Of ‘The Late Show With Stephen Colbert’: “A Very Sad Week For Television In America”

EXCLUSIVE: On the eve of Stephen Colbert’s final Late Show broadcast, his late-night comedy compatriot Seth Meyers is weighing in on the historic moment. “I’m heartbroken,” the host of Late Night with Seth Meyers tells Deadline in an exclusive interview. “It’s very sad to lose a colleague and even sadder to lose a time slot. […]

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Stephen Colbert imagines an apocalyptic fable in his final show, cancelled after 33 years, following criticism of Trump

The elephant in the room was Donald Trump. The aim: not to name the person who succeeded in getting rid of Stephen Colbert, one of the most popular comedians in the United States. In the last episode of The Late Show, broadcast on Thursday by the CBS network, Colbert insisted he did not want to do anything special, just another show like the 1,800 he has under his belt. But reality had other plans.

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Stephen Colbert on 'The Late Show' on Thursday.
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Donald Trump Celebrates Stephen Colbert’s Last ‘Late Show’ On CBS: “Thank Goodness He’s Finally Gone!”

About an hour after Stephen Colbert signed off on his final Late Show on CBS, Donald Trump posted a note of celebration. At 1:52 a.m. ET on Friday, the president posted on Truth Social, “Colbert is finally finished at CBS. Amazing that he lasted so long! No talent, no ratings, no life. He was like […]

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Secrets, UFOs, and smokescreens: Why Washington is obsessed with extraterrestrials

Stephen Bassett, ufologist, political activist and lobbyist, in Washington, May 14.

Let’s start with the proven facts: Disclosure Day is the most anticipated film of the summer. Its director and screenwriter, Steven Spielberg, revealed details about its plot this week on one of Stephen Colbert’s final shows: he says it tells the story of the theft by officials, “committed to the truth,” of all information held by the government “about UFOs and extraterrestrial visits,” and the system’s desperate attempts to prevent it being revealed.

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Front pages of the 'Roswell Daily Record' for July 9 and 10, 1947.Emily Blunt, in a promotional still from Steven Spielberg's film ‘Disclosure Day.’Screening of the documentary ‘The Age of Disclosure’ at the Capitol for members of Congress.Dan Farah, director and producer of ‘The Age of Disclosure,’ alongside Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
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Colbert’s Next Act?: Ex-‘Late Show’ Host’s New YouTube Channel Way More Interesting Than BS That CBS Tried To Quash His Public Access Special

Stephen Colbert may have revealed what his next move is now that the Late Show is over on CBS. At the same time, CBS has absolutely revealed that they were behind Colbert’s May 22 Michigan public access special, the one that aired the day after the long-running network late-night franchise came to an end. In […]

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