Old School. Biblically Independent.
By Andrew Sanford | News | July 22, 2025
Well, damn! I didn’t expect Stephen Colbert to come out of the gate taking shots at his current bosses and the current president. I expected it to happen a little bit. He certainly wasn’t going to go quietly. However, the cancellation of Colbert’s show was announced last Thursday. He’ll have the show until May 2026. Part of me assumed that he would take the high road for a while. I didn’t want him to! I just thought that he would. I’ve never been happier to be wrong about something.
Colbert made it clear that the gloves were off when he came out in front of his adoring crowd. He further addressed his displeasure with the situation while firing off a few expletives. Colbert lamented what will happen to the historic Ed Sullivan Theater. The man joked about the mustache he had when delivering a monologue criticizing Paramount for folding to Trump, even though that stache was unfairly maligned! The longtime host took the time to take shots at himself, but he also saved time for Trump’s BFF.
There’s nothing that Donald Trump wants to talk about less than New York financier and horrific criminal, Jeff Epstein. He’s gone into overdrive trying to get supporters and non-supporters alike to stop talking about his former best friend. Can’t imagine why! Regardless, Colbert spent a large section of the monologue discussing Trump and Epstein’s relationship, going as far as reading through the exchange between the two powerful, sh*tty men that the Wall Street Journal revealed.
But that’s not all! It wouldn’t be a modern-day late-night comedy show without reference to something that went viral days ago. Colbert brought out Lin-Manuel Miranda and my beloved Weird Al Yankovic (who totally played Captain Underpants for my kids, by the way) to serenade the crowd with a Coldplay song while cutting to folks in the audience. That included such pairings as Seth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon (who took shots at Colbert’s cancellation on their own shows last night), John Oliver and Jon Stewart (who enlisted a choir to tell Paramount to go f*** themselves), and a cartoon Trump hugging a Paramount logo.
The song was a hilarious taste of what’s to come, as Colbert was at one point handed a piece of paper telling him it had been cancelled, much to the confusion of Weird Al and Normal Lin-Manuel. There’s plenty of angry energy to what Colbert is spinning right now, and we’re only on day one. He has until May to go on a rampage against Trump and Paramount. What we’ve seen so far is merely a taste of what’s to come. With the whole of late-night behind him, it’s going to be a hell of a fight.
