CBS announced in July that Late Show would end in May, more than 30 years after 1993 debut under David Letterman
The final episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert will air on 21 May, the host has announced.
Colbert, who has hosted the show since 2015, revealed the date on Monday during a taping of NBC’s Late Night With Seth Meyers to air on Tuesday night. Colbert will appear on Meyers’s show as a guest.
CBS had announced in July that The Late Show would come to an end in May, more than 30 years after its debut in 1993 under David Letterman. “It’s not just the end of the show. It is the end of the Late Show on CBS. I’m not being replaced – this is all just going away,” Colbert told his audience in July. A date for the final episode, however, had not been revealed.
News of the show’s cancellation came a few weeks after CBS’s parent company, Paramount, reached a $16m settlement with Donald Trump over what he called deceptive editing of a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris. At the same time, Paramount was preparing for an $8.4bn merger with Skydance Media, which needed federal approval. Days before the cancellation was announced, Colbert described the settlement as a “big fat bribe”.
