John Oliver is looking the cancellation of The Late Present With Stephen Colbert “extremely unhappy.”
Whereas talking to reporters over the weekend, Oliver was requested his ideas concerning the information, which CBS revealed in a shock announcement on Thursday.
“Clearly, I like Stephen, I like his workers, I like that present — it’s extremely unhappy,” the Final Week Tonight host responded. “I’m partly excited to see what they’re gonna do for the following 10 months. It’s horrible, horrible information for the world of comedy.”
Oliver and Colbert each served as correspondents on The Day by day Present — although not on the identical time — and are pals, with Oliver having appeared on Colbert’s present through the years. Oliver additionally famous he grew up watching The Late Present in England, when David Letterman was host.
“Late-night exhibits imply lots to me, not simply because I work in them, as a result of even rising up in England, I’d watch Letterman’s present, which after all was Stephen’s present, and take into consideration what a glamorous world that was,” he stated. “So to have gotten to have been on Letterman’s present and Stephen’s present was at all times one of the enjoyable issues. So it’s very, very, very unhappy information. I look ahead to seeing what [Colbert is] gonna do subsequent as a result of that man won’t cease.”
Colbert shared the present’s dwell viewers throughout the taping of Thursday’s present on the Ed Sullivan Theatre in New York, drawing boos from the viewers. He stated he’d been advised concerning the resolution the evening earlier than.
In an announcement, CBS stated the cancellation was “purely a monetary resolution towards a difficult backdrop in late evening. It isn’t associated in any technique to the present’s efficiency, content material or different issues occurring at Paramount.”
Final Week Tonight, in the meantime, is on hiatus till July 27. Oliver was speaking to reporters in Erie, Pa. — house of the newly rebranded minor league baseball group, the Moon Mammoths. The group previously often called the Erie SeaWolves will play 4 video games beneath the brand new moniker, however it’s unclear if the identify shall be everlasting.
“That is completely for the folks of Erie and this group to determine now,” Oliver stated, based on YourErie.com. “In the event that they wish to return to the SeaWolves, this has been enjoyable. In the event that they wish to maintain the Moon Mammoths perpetually, have it.”
Erie Mayor Joe Schember declared the day as Moon Mammoth Day and offered Oliver with a key to town. The brand new identify is impressed by George Moon’s discovery of a mammoth skeleton in Lake Nice in 1991.
Saturday evening’s recreation drew a document crowd of seven,070 at UPMC Park.