ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel interrupted his summer time trip to point out help for fellow late-night host Stephen Colbert following the announcement that CBS might be ending The Late Present with Stephen Colbert — and the Late Present franchise altogether — on the finish of the upcoming 2025-26 season.
“Love you Stephen. F*ck you and all of your Sheldons CBS,” Kimmel wrote in a narrative on his private Instagram account whereas reposting the video of Colbert revealing that CBS was ending The Late Present at first of tonight’s telecast.
It’s unclear what precisely Kimmel is referring to; it could be a reference to CBS’ The Bing Bang Idea franchise, whose character Sheldon received his personal spinoff, Younger Sheldon, which, in flip, led to a by-product, Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage.
In a companion announcement by CBS, the community mentioned the cancellation of The Late Present was “purely a monetary resolution towards a difficult backdrop in late night time” and “just isn’t associated in any strategy to the present’s efficiency, content material or different issues taking place at Paramount,” a probable reference to the pending acquisition of CBS mother or father Paramount International by Skydance.
Earlier this week, Colbert, an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump, known as Paramount International’s $16M settlement of Trump’s 60 Minutes lawsuit a “huge fats bribe.” Settling the swimsuit had been thought of a transfer by Paramount to assist safe FCC approval for the Skydance merger.
Not like their predecessors, the present late-night hosts, together with Kimmel and Colbert, had confirmed nice camaraderie and banded collectively through the writers strike for a podcast to help their placing staffs.
They’ve appeared on one another reveals and had confirmed up collectively at occasions, together with Colbert and Kimmel’s bit on the 2019 Emmy Awards, pictured above.