Stephen Colbert's Late Show Ends After 11 Years on CBS
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert concludes its run on CBS on May 21, 2026. The program ran for 11 years after Colbert hosted The Colbert Report for nine years on Comedy Central.
hollywoodreporter.comThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert ends its 11-year run on CBS on May 21, 2026. The program aired more than 3,000 episodes across two networks over 20 years. Colbert began his late-night hosting career with The Colbert Report, a Comedy Central series that ran from 2005 to 2014.
The show featured a parody of cable news pundits and introduced the term truthiness on its first episode. CBS canceled the program despite top ratings in its time slot. The network has not stated a reason for the decision.
Colbert hosted The Colbert Report as a spinoff of The Daily Show. The series ran for nine years before he moved to CBS in 2015. The final episode will feature appearances by other late-night hosts. Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, John Oliver, and Seth Meyers appeared on the May 11, 2026 broadcast.
, a former Daily Show correspondent, said Colbert demonstrated the power of sticking to the truth more than others in modern late-night television.
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