CBS preparing to fire Colbert:
You reap what you sow in the world, and CBS' decision to cancel 'The Late Show' is proof of that.
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Anyone who has tuned into
The Late Show last week will notice that host
Stephen Colbert has been acting a little more…let’s say controversially than usual. Like most late night
talk show hosts, including Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon, Colbert has always been gleefully delighted to take swipes at a certain businessman-turned-president, but since the announcement that his show was being canceled next year, Colbert has been even more derogatory towards President Trump than normal and network bosses are really, really not happy. Diddums.
On his first show after the cancellation of
The Late Show was announced,
Colbert labeled himself “a martyr” when slamming Trump’s social media postscelebrating the cancellation and warning other “untalented” talk show hosts that they could be next. During the same show, Colbert told Trump to “Go f-ck yourself.”
While the studio audience – and many viewers - clearly agreed with the eloquent sentiment, the show’s bosses did not. Now it looks like Colbert may not even make it to the end of the series next year, as, according to journalist Rob Shuter, there have been words had with Colbert, and they have come “very close” to pulling him off-air. After reportedly calling an emergency meeting the morning after Colbert’s show aired, two senior executives reportedly said:
