While taping his Thursday show, host Stephen Colbert made the surprising announcement that CBS is ending his late night show in May.

The live audience at New York’s Ed Sullivan Theater booed when he delivered the news that this would be the show’s final season.

“Yeah, I share your feelings,” he told the audience. “It’s not just the end our our show, but it’s the end of The Late Show on CBS. I’m not being replaced. This is all just going away.”

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    19 hours ago

    President Trump celebrated the news. “I absolutely love that Colbert’ got fired,” he posted on Truth Social. “I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next.”

    Whether overtly coordinated or not, this was the signal for Brendan Carr to approve the Skydance merger.

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      Honestly I seriously wish he’d say no anyway and twist the knife.

      I know they can’t though, a bribe doesn’t work again if others know you don’t follow through… :(

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        Have you been paying attention lately?

        Trump has repeatedly shown he can go back on his word and make more demands, and companies like CBS will gladly suck him off again. How many businesses, law firms, universities, and even countries (Looking at you, Canada) have done the exact same thing already? Countless.