Sounds like much ado about pumpkin. CBS aired the final episode ever of “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” Thursday, and considering it was the death of an iconic late night franchise, most news outlets covered the finale Friday in some capacity. Yet “CBS Mornings” ignored it all together.Stephen Colbert on stage during the final episode of the CBS series “The Late Show” on Thursday, May 21.CBS Photo Archive via Getty Images“And that wasn’t an oversight,” Puck founder Matthew Belloni wrote in a report Tuesday, noting the morning show’s broadcast Friday had “no highlights” and “not a single mention of a pretty major event on its own network.” And the reason seems to be that “The Late Show” allegedly managed to get under a CBS boss’ skin.“I’m told the ghosting was a specific directive from CBS News president Tom Cibrowski, who hated Colbert’s recent bit mocking their failure to secure a China visa for [CBS News] anchor Tony Dokoupil,” Belloni wrote. Belloni continued, “Colbert ‘kicked colleagues when they were down,’ one source at CBS News told me today. ‘It was unprofessional and unprovoked.’” HuffPost has reached out to CBS News for comment, but did not receive an immediate response.Gayle King, Tony Dokoupil and Nate Burleson on “CBS Mornings” during a broadcast in September 2025.CBS Photo Archive via Getty ImagesEarlier this month, when President Donald Trump visited China, Dokoupil — who is viewed as the network’s “MAGA-coded anchor” — failed to secure a visa to the country and instead reported from Taiwan.In response to the sloppy move, “The Late Show” mocked CBS News by airing a phony broadcast in which a fake Dokoupil reports from “the wrong China” with his head stuck inside of a pumpkin.As the fake Dokoupil struggles to get his head out of the giant gourd, an old lady appears on-screen who is meant to represent CBS News’ Trump-friendly editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss. The faux Weiss proceeds to beat the bogus Dokoupil on the head with a mallet and then a baseball bat until he eventually falls to the ground.Belloni added in his report that despite “CBS Mornings” snubbing the end of “The Late Show” during its Friday broadcast, it wasn’t “a complete gag order,” and that show co-host Gayle King “posted a gushing farewell to Colbert on Instagram and hit the finale afterparty on Thursday night.”But, essentially, Belloni described the move as “CBS News’s final middle finger to Colbert.”Although it is unclear which CBS source spoke to Belloni, fans of Colbert likely didn’t view the sketch ridiculing the network as “unprovoked.”Although CBS has insisted that pulling the plug on its “Late Show” franchise last summer was “purely a financial decision,” most assume that Colbert got axed because the network needed to appease Trump to secure his administration’s sign-off on a merger deal. It also doesn’t help that just days before the cancellation announcement, Colbert ripped CBS’s parent company, Paramount Global (now Paramount Skydance), on his show for settling a lawsuit with the president over a “60 Minutes” episode with former Vice President Kamala Harris.