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NEW YORK CITY – JULY 15: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert during Monday’s July 15, 2024 show. (Photo by Scott Kowalchyk/CBS via Getty Images) (Image: CBS via Getty Images)
The lineup of particular company for the final week of Steven Colbert’s late-night program has been announced.
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will air its last episode on Thursday, May 21. CBS announced in July 2025 that the late-night program would end, citing financial causes. On Friday, May 15, Paramount-Skydance, CBS’s dad or mum company, unveiled the guest roster for the show’s concluding week.
This announcement follows Stephen Colbert’s May 14 look with David Letterman, the unique Late Show host. The 79-year-old helmed CBS’s The Late Show for 22 years, from August 1993 through May 2015. Stephen, 63, assumed internet hosting duties when David stepped down in 2015.
Monday, May 18’s episode is about “The Worst of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” and it is “not a clip show.”
The following night, Tuesday, May 19, Stephen will welcome Daily Show host Jon Stewart and Director Steven Spielberg to his set. That broadcast will embrace a particular musical efficiency by David Byrne and Stephen, stories the Irish Star.
Jo Stewart might be becoming a member of Stephen on May 19 (Image: CBS via Getty Images)
On Wednesday, May 20, the host will do his in style, long-running characteristic, “The Colbert Questionert” with particular company. The announcement didn’t reveal the identities of those particular company. Bruce Springsteen is scheduled to carry out that night as nicely.
No data was supplied in the press release concerning the final episode on May 21. Details about the show’s finale format and potential company stay undisclosed.
In July 2025, CBS dropped the bombshell that it was axing The Late Show, successfully retiring all the franchise. The community pointed to financial causes for the transfer, insisting the choice was “not related in any way to the show’s performance, content, or other matters happening at Paramount.”
David Byrne might be performing with Stephen himself on the May 19 episode (Image: Getty Images)
The community stood firm on that clarification for pulling the plug on the late-night establishment. The cancellation arrived just days after Stephen publicly lambasted then-Paramount over its $16 million settlement with President Donald Trump.
The cancellation drew sharp criticism from many observers who labeled it politically motivated, given that it adopted the daddy of three’s public rebuke of the dad or mum company and its deal with the 79-year-old president.
Bruce Springsteen is the musical guest for the May 20 episode (Image: Getty)
Others seen the cancellation as an assault on First Amendment rights and a deliberate attempt to curry favor with Trump, at a time when Paramount was awaiting Federal Communications Commission approval of its Skydance merger — an company whose Chairman, Brendan Carr, was appointed by Trump himself.
Paramount finally secured that approval in July 2025, closing the deal in August 2025.
David Letterman just lately took purpose at CBS, branding the community “lying weasels” in an interview with The New York Times, printed May 5, when pressed on whether or not he believes the community’s financial justification for canceling The Late Show
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