A Satisfying Coda to the CBS-Paramount-Colbert

The Stephen Colbert martyrdom crowd is just not going to like this story one bit.

As readers could have heard, The Late Show With Stephen Colbert aired for the last time just over a week in the past on the Tiffany community. But the sordid story of CBS, and its mum or dad company, Paramount, placing the comic’s show in the ejector seat and urgent the brilliant pink button, did not end with the finale on Thursday, May 21.

Think of this as the story’s candy, candy coda, and leftists who continue to undergo from TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) will despise it.. Buckle up!

So, CBS-Paramount is perhaps deriving some well-deserved satisfaction proper about now, as my colleague at sister website PJ Media, Matt Margolis, wrote earlier on Saturday in his piece, “CBS Torches Stephen Colbert After His Exit”:

Byron Allen’s Comics Unleashed formally took over CBS’s 11:35 p.m. late-night slot on Friday, May 22, under a new “time buy” deal with the community. Under the association, Allen Media Group pays CBS for the time period, handles all manufacturing prices itself, and controls the promoting stock. This means that CBS would not have to spend a dime.

That’s a fairly sharp distinction from what Colbert price it.

CBS announced the cancellation of The Late Show back in July 2025, citing financial causes. The community said the program was hemorrhaging roughly $40 million a 12 months. At the time, some on the left insisted that the transfer was political. In their minds, CBS, an anti-Trump community, was doing President Donald Trump a favor by getting rid of one of his critics.

But CBS (again) demolished that narrative.

“With this ‘time buy’ model, we have shifted an hour that was losing roughly $40 million annually to $15 million in profit — a $55 million swing,” the spokesperson said, calling it “a new business and programming model for late night that proactively addresses a network daypart that was cost prohibitive to continue.”

Let that sink in, readers. CBS ran an experiment – in an industry that is detest to attempt new issues that might price/lose them money – instead of protecting Colbert for one more contract. That has to damage, for the former late evening host and his apologists/acolytes, including the terminally flawed Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT).

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Not only is not the community bleeding money now that he is off the air, but they’re already making money. Essentially, CBS is paying nothing to produce the new packages, and profiting! That ain’t straightforward to do.

There’s also this level to tie up with a bow. This outcome has to be cathartic for Paramount, which has also taken a barrage of fire from leftists over the CBS News division modifications, including the hiring of new boss, Bari Weiss.

Ironically, Colbert used to be variety of all proper as a discuss show host. I praised his expertise as an interviewer once (at another publication), but he went to the Dark Side of progressive comedy. Then Greg Gutfeld and his Fox News “Gutfeld!” began beating the blazes out of all of the broadcast discuss shows–in 2021. What are you able to do, actually?

I’m sure I’m not alone in recalling the soft-touch treatment former President Joe Biden bought on the Colbert non-comedy show in 2020. 

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So, what about Byron Allen’s Comics Unleashed? If you are unfamiliar with it, that’s most likely because it is syndicated, and until just lately, has aired late at evening. 

And it has been following “Colbert” on CBS since Sept. 2025, according to this trailer:

The idea, which even a little one might decide up from the video, is fairly basic: Allen sits down in a city corridor set-up, with 4 stand-up comics, for an hour. That’s it. But Unleashed is just not a new show. It started airing in 2006.

I see it while clicking through channels on over-the-air TV in my home. What’s my take on Allen’s program? It’s humorous stuff, but not something spectacular. Like any comedy-based show, it relies upon on who the company are.

And as for the demise of late evening comedy – and broadcast TV as a complete – as a profitable leisure vehicle, it’s a unhappy factor for this Gen Xer to witness. It was most likely inevitable, though.

That seems to be what media mogul Allen himself is betting on, by the means. When he purchased BuzzfFeed just lately he told Variety he wished to make it into a competitor to YouTube in the “premier free-streaming video” space. Stay tuned, viewers, er, readers.

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