Overview
- Stephen Colbert used his latest Late Show monologue to box a prop marked “Iran War Joke” and pretend to ship it to Jimmy Kimmel at ABC.
- He quipped the Iran war might not be over by Memorial Day after President Donald Trump extended a ceasefire with no end date.
- The bit nodded to the calendar, with CBS setting May 21 as Colbert’s final broadcast after more than a decade on the show.
- CBS says the shutdown is a financial decision, even as Colbert had blasted Paramount’s $16 million settlement with Trump as a “big fat bribe.”
- Other late-night hosts, including Kimmel, have defended Colbert and questioned CBS’s rationale as parent company Paramount Global seeks a merger with Skydance Media.