Jon Stewart rips Paramount, CBS in profanity-laden diatribe after cancellation of Colbert’s ‘Late Show’

Jon Stewart castigated CBS’s decision to cancel “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” in the episode of “The Daily Show” on Monday, tearing their shared parent company, Paramount Global, for what he called a capitulation to President Donald Trump.

Stewart referred to the planned merger of Paramount with Skydance in an agreement of $ 8 billion, which is awaiting government approval, and said that “The Late Show” made this money.

“Show that say something, shows that take a position, shows that are not afraid – it is not” We tell the truth in power “. We don’t do it,” said Stewart. “We are talking about opinions to television cameras. But we are trying. We are trying, every night.

“And if you believe, as a company or as a networks, you can go so harmless that you can serve a porridge so without flavor that you will never be on the radar of the King of the Boy-a.) Why will someone look at you? And you are wrong.”

The appearance of blasphemous segment, which was broadcast unconneited, culminated with Stewart a church choir encouraging institutions to “dismiss the F — Up” or “go f — You”. (The cable channels like Comedy Central, which broadcast “The Daily Show”, are not subject to the same blasphemous regulations as network stations.)

Paramount and Comedy Central did not immediately respond to requests for comments.

A few minutes later, Colbert on “Late Night” echoed Stewart by responding to Trump to celebrate the cancellation of his program, offering his own “Go F — You” to the President.

Stewart’s diatribe arrives less than a week after the announcement that CBS would cancel “The Late Show”, a loyal to late evening television that Colbert took care of in 2015. CBS said that it was “a financial decision” and “not in any way linked to the performance of the show, content or other questions that occurred in Paramount”.

However, the news rocked the entertainment industry and immediately fueled speculation that Colbert’s program, who regularly kissed Trump, was a victim of Paramount’s efforts to merge with Skydance Media.

This agreement has been the subject of special control because it awaits the approval of the Federal Commission for Trump Communications.

While media mergers and acquisitions have long been the subject of a regulatory examination on the external power of consolidated companies, the paramount-skid agreement has taken a particularly political flavor. Last week, David Ellison, CEO of Skydance, met the president of the FCC, Brendan Carr, and made a promise to adopt “various points of view” which will reflect “the varied ideological perspectives of American viewers”.

Since Skydance announced its intention to merge with Paramount in a transaction of $ 8 billion a year ago, the agreement was faced with several delays – first in the context of the outgoing Biden administration, then under Trump, which accused the CBS News Marquee program, “60 minutes”, to distort an interview with a Democratic Kamala Harris interview in the elections in 2024 and underestimated a working opinion.

While many legal experts considered the trial to be frivolous, media reports said that the Boss of Paramount Shari Redstone favored the exploration of a regulation with Trump in order to overcome other regulatory obstacles.

The regulations, for $ 16 million, was announced this month.

The regulations and negotiations that have led there, have raised several high -level people at CBS. The correspondent “60 minutes”, Scott Pelley, declared in June that such an agreement would be “very prejudicial” to CBS and Paramount. In April, the long -standing editor of “60 minutes”, Bill Owens, resigned, citing the loss of editorial independence by the program. CBS News boss Wendy McMahon left a month later.

In the episode on Monday of “The Late Show”, Colbert paraded the agreement as a “big bribe”.

Colbert channeled a hero of Action-Star and said that CBS “made a mistake: they left me alive.”

“And now for the next 10 months, gloves are disabled,” he told the public.

He brought “Weird Al” Yankovic and Lin-Manuel Miranda to cheer up with a coverage of Coldplay, and among those captured on “Kiss Cam” were Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen from CNN, the other End of Evening Seth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon, and Stewart and John Oliver.

A cartoon Donald Trump was surprised to kiss a primordial logo in an influence, a reference to the recent viral incident during a Coldplay concert which led to the resignation of a CEO of a data company.

Stewart and Colbert have been close for years, dating from the moment when Colbert joined “The Daily Show” in 1997. In 2005, “The Colbert Report” made its debut, broadcast after “The Daily Show” and launching Colbert in Stardom.

Skydance is managed by David Ellison, son of the founder of Oracle and Trump Ally Larry Ellison. While the young Ellison made a donation to the re -election fund of President Joe Biden in February 2024, shortly before Biden withdrew from the race, Trump recently pointed out his comfort with his takeover of Paramount and his assets, which, in addition to CBS News, also include Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, The CW, Bet and Film “Smurfs” and “Sonic the Hacehog.” “”. “”. “”

Stewart said on Monday “The Daily Show” that Colbert had challenged by taking “The Tonight Show”, with his audience and his wider exam.

“Watching Stephen go beyond all expectations in the role and becoming the program n ° 1 at the end of the evening on network television was an undeniable great pleasure for me – as a spectator and as an Imi,” said Stewart.

Stewart recognized that television at the end of the evening is a financial model in difficulty. “We all exploit a successful kiosk inside a tour file,” he said, but he added that when industries change, abandonment is not the answer.

“When the CDs have stopped selling, they did not just say:” Oh, well, music, it was a good race “, he said.

Stewart, who said last week that he had not heard of Paramount in his program under the merger, had made a joke on his own future.

“Now is not the time to give in,” said Stewart. “I don’t give in. I’m not going anywhere – I think. “