Jon Stewart blasts CBS on "The Daily Show" for canceling Stephen Colbert and "The Late Show": 'You are fing wrong' Raechal ShewfeltJuly 22, 2025 at 1:23 AM Comedy Central Jon Stewart sings on July 21 episode of 'The Daily Show' Jon Stewart spit fire across The Daily Show stage over CBS canceling Ste...
- - - Jon Stewart blasts CBS on "The Daily Show" for canceling Stephen Colbert and "The Late Show": 'You are f---ing wrong'
Raechal ShewfeltJuly 22, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Jon Stewart sings on July 21 episode of 'The Daily Show'
Jon Stewart spit fire across The Daily Show stage over CBS canceling Stephen Colbert's The Late Show last week.
"Look, I understand the corporate fear. I understand the fear that you and your advertisers have with $8 billion at stake," Stewart said during his monologue in his first episode since the decision was announced. "But understand this: Truly, the shows that you now seek to cancel, censor, and control, a not insignificant portion of that $8 billion value came from those f---ing shows That's what made you that money — shows that say something, shows that take a stand, shows that are unafraid. Believe me, this is not a 'We speak truth to power.' We don't. We speak opinions to television cameras."
He added, "And if you believe as corporations or as networks, you can make yourselves so innocuous, that you can serve a gruel so flavorless, that you will never again be on the boy king's radar: (a) why will anyone watch you? And — you are f---ing wrong."
CBS announced July 17 that The Late Show With Stephen Colbert will end next May and said the decision was "purely a financial" one.
"We consider Stephen Colbert irreplaceable and will retire The Late Show franchise at that time. We are proud that Stephen called CBS home. He and the broadcast will be remembered in the pantheon of greats that graced late night television," the company announced in a statement.
"This is purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night. It is not related in any way to the show's performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount," the statement continued.
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'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert' in January
A spectrum of industry observers expressed concern, however, that the decision was fueled more by the pending sale of Paramount Global to Skydance Media, which requires the approval of President Donald Trump's administration. Colbert has long been an outspoken critic of Trump.
"CBS canceled Colbert's show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump– a deal that looks like bribery," Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren wrote on X following the announcement. "America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons."
In a move that many in government, media, and legal circles saw as a blow to the First Amendment's protections of the press, Paramount announced in early July that it had settled a case brought by Trump over the editing of a 60 Minutes interview with former Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
"Trump is now forcing a whole news organization to pay millions of dollars for doing something protected by the Constitution — which is, of course, free and independent reporting," Dan Rather, who worked at CBS for 44 years, said about the settlement. "Now, you take today's sell-out. And that's what it was: It was a sell-out to extortion by the President. Who can now say where all this ends?"
Stewart often used graphic language as he made his feelings about the decision to cancel his former Daily Show costar Colbert clear on Monday.
"Since we're on the topic of corporate capitulation to the whims of a pussy-grabbing enigma," he said, noting that Comedy Central, the network that airs his show, is under the same corporate parent as the one that canceled Colbert: Paramount Global.
Stewart joked that late-night hosts are "all basically a operating like a Blockbuster kiosk inside of a Tower Records."
"But when your industry is faced with changes, you don't just call it a day," he said. "When CDs stopped selling, they didn't just go, 'Oh well, music, it's been a good run.' The fact that CBS didn't try to save their number-one-rated network late-night franchise, that's been on the air for over three decades, that's part of what's making everybody wonder, 'Was this purely financial, or maybe the path of least resistance for your $8 billion merger?'"
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He also ripped into Trump, whom he says is "a fragile and vengeful president" who's "suffering terribly from a case of chronic a penis insufficiency."
"Do you want to know how impossible it is to stay on the Lord Farquaad's good side?" Stewart asked, comparing the president to the narcissistic, authoritarian Shrek movie villain. "Donald Trump is suing Rupert Murdoch, the owner of Fox News, the man — other than Biden — maybe most responsible for getting Trump elected."
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Stephen Colbert appears on 'The Daily Show' with Jon Stewart in 2015
He underscored his point: "Fox spends 24 hours a day, blowing Trump, and it's not enough. Imagine suing someone mid-blow. How could you?"
Stewart's conclusion was that the answer to why Colbert's show is ending is "fear and pre-compliance that is gripping all of America's institutions at this very moment — institutions that have chosen not to fight the vengeful and vindictive actions of our pubic hair-doodling commander-in-chief."
This, he said, "is not the moment to give in. I'm not giving in."
He then sang an energetic song backed by a choir with the frequent refrain, "Go f--- yourself."
Watch Stewart's monologue — and sing along — in the video above.
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