Stephen Colbert Reveals The Greatest Lesson He Realized In 2025

Stephen Colbert closed out 2025 by sharing crucial lesson he realized in 2025 throughout CNN’s stay New Yr’s Eve particular

Whereas talking to Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper in the course of the broadcast, Colbert was requested about what the previous yr had taught him. And, the late-night host responded by saying, “Don’t belief billionaires.” He started to snigger and additional elaborated on his reply, “They don’t get wealthy by discovering that cash on the facet of the street, brother.”

Cohen’s query comes within the aftermath of Colbert’s very public feud with President Donald Trump and CBS. Earlier final yr, The Late Present with Stephen Colbert was canceled by the community. The long-running collection would conclude after over a decade in Could 2026, after the host’s contract with CBS expires.

The TV persona suspected that his rocky relationship with the billionaire President of the USA possible performed a big half in his collection getting axed. Nevertheless, CBS claimed that the choice had nothing to do with politics. The community stated that the explanation it wasn’t renewing The Late Present was that it was dropping them cash and the scores weren’t ok.

The cancellation of The Late Present was introduced in July 2025 and instantly riled up the leisure trade. Regardless of the claims made by CBS executives, the timing of the choice fueled hypothesis that whereas funds might have had one thing to do with it, it wasn’t the one issue. CBS was accused of caving in and attempting to appease the newly elected President Trump, as Colbert has been recognized to be one in every of his greatest critics.

Help for Colbert poured in from each his colleagues and viewers following the announcement. David Letterman, who launched The Late Present in 1993 and hosted it for greater than twenty years, additionally made it recognized that he didn’t approve of the community’s resolution. He stated the selection to cancel the present was because of concern, not monetary struggles. He condemned CBS for being too scared to let the voices of their expertise be heard as a result of they do not wish to take care of political backlash.

[They] don’t need any bother alongside the traces of freedom of the press or free speech or freedom of expression. They don’t need the federal government going after them, as a result of that idea of freedom of the press and freedom of speech — that’s so old style.

The Late Present with Stephen Colbert will conclude in Could 2026 on CBS.