Overview
- Steven Cheung reposted an article calling Stephen Colbert’s extended exit an “ego trip” and labeled him “a sad and pathetic excuse for a human being” who “will soon be forgotten.”
- Cheung said “nobody likes a loser who killed the legacy of ‘The Late Show,’” intensifying the public dispute with the CBS host.
- The Late Show is scheduled to conclude on May 21 following CBS’s cancellation announcement last summer.
- CBS executives have maintained the decision was financial, which came days after Colbert mocked Paramount’s $16 million settlement with President Trump as a “big fat bribe.”
- Representatives for CBS did not respond to TheWrap’s request for comment, and the program later won the Emmy for Outstanding Talk Series.