Stephen Colbert, Trump and Late Show
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Radio host and podcaster Megyn Kelly tried to take a victory lap after the announcement last week that Stephen Colbert ’s Late Show would be canceled by CBS after 10 years on the air and despite it being the highest-rated show in its time slot.
Kelly said on her show Friday that Colbert took “The Late Show” ― which was started by David Letterman ― and “completely drove it into the ground.” “He desperately wanted to be Keith Olbermann,” she said.
Inside the Ed Sullivan Theatre in New York, Stephen Colbert was trying to make sense of that cataclysmic outcome in real time, both for himself and for the millions of viewers who had come to view him as an indispensable voice of comic insight and illumination.
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Schiff reminded viewers of Trump’s attacks on him. “Ever since I led his first impeachment, he’s threatened me with jail, prosecution, called me a traitor, accused me of treason… blah blah blah,” he said. Then Schiff turned directly to the camera with a message for the president.
Jimmy Kimmel is fighting back against President Donald Trump amid mass debate over the cancellation of his fellow late-night TV talk show host Stephen Colbert’s program. Not long after the news was confirmed by Colbert,
Jimmy Kimmel and his family took a stand with his family, protesting President Donald Trump following the cancelation of Stephen Colbert’s late-night show.