The CBS show will be in repeats this week. The news means that guests including Sarah Paulson, Jason Isbell, Mark Ruffalo, Nicki Minaj, Sara Bareilles and Rep. Liz Cheney will no longer appear on the show.
CBS’s Late Show will be on an unplanned post-Thanksgiving hiatus after host Stephen Colbert says he is recovering after surgery for a ruptured appendix.
Eight years after retiring from the CBS show, the former latenight host sat down with his successor, Stephen Colbert.
Latenight might be back, but there are still a few challenges. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is pivoting to an at home-like show after the comedian contracted COVID. The show will go on remotely with a monologue; Colbert is pretty used to that having previously hosted the show at his house during the pandemic, including from his own bathtub.
Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, John Oliver and Seth Meyers launched the podcast, called Strike Force Five, which was named after their personal text chain, Wednesday on Spotify. (Image: AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
When these hosts will be able to grace their own stages is obviously unknown, but once the writers strike, at least, is over, with talks between the WGA and AMPTP taking place later today, expect them to be back up and running relatively quickly.
While speaking at the Banff TV Festival on Tuesday, CBS CEO George Cheeks revealed that CBS had reached a contract extension with the comedian to continue as host of its top-rated The Late Show with Stephen Colbert for another three years. His current pact was set to expire this year. “We just extended him for three more years and I was praying for that to happen,” Cheeks said.