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The Wednesday edition of CBS’s The Late Show was defined by host Stephen Colbert giving two odes to liberal budget priorities. First, Colbert insisted that PBS documentaries on transgender people in Ohio bowling leagues are of vital importance before marveling at Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s “righteous anger” at President Trump, Elon Musk, and DOGE.

The idea that the late night comedy shows are just MSNBC with jokes was on full display on Tuesday’s installment of CBS’s The Late Show. Host Stephen Colbert claimed that the Trump Administration’s recent demands on Harvard were “ridiculous,” “insane,” and “dictatorial,” but Colbert never provided any context for why those demands were given.

Sen. Cory Booker continued his tour of adoring media on Monday as he joined CBS and The Late Show host Stephen Colbert for a three-segment interview to look back at his 25-hour talk session and ahead to what comes next. Booker has been eager to compare himself to the Civil Rights Movement, and Colbert was more than willing to assist him in those efforts.

Thus far, it has been a gloomy 2025 for the late night comedy shows as they have attacked Democrats from the left for not doing anything to stop Republicans, but on Wednesday, a trio of them claimed to have reason for optimism as they reacted to Sen. Cory Booker’s 25-hour talk. Some suggested he get an award, while others claimed he spoke for all of America, while others tried their hand at…

CBS’s Stephen Colbert tried to have it both ways on Thursday’s taping of The Late Show. On one hand he mocked Republicans for wanting to defund PBS out of concerns its documentaries were sexualizing children because what child watches PBS? On the other hand, he defended PBS against calls to defund it by citing all the children’s programming it does. Later in the show, Colbert would…

Joe Biden became president in 2021, which was not that long ago, but according to CBS’s Stephen Colbert, repealing Biden-era EPA regulations is a public health crisis of grave consequence. Colbert made the remarks on Thursday’s edition of The Late Show, where he also expressed his lack of interest in the financial cost of regulations.

NBC’s Late Night and CBS’s The Late Show hosts Seth Meyers and Stephen Colbert were greatly displeased on their Wednesday shows that the Trump Administration is seeking to deport pro-Hamas Columbia University protest leader Mahmoud Khalil. As they tell it, Khalil is not the leader of an illegal protest movement that occupied school property and distributed pro-terrorist…

Ham-fisted Nazi analogies and dumb post-Soviet oracles—these are a few of Stephen Colbert’s favorite things. On Tuesday’s edition of The Late Show on CBS, Colbert welcomed actor Nathan Lane and New York Times columnist Ezra Klein to his show to lament the Trump Administration where it was warned that the Trump era will feature pro-Nazi versions of The Sound of Music …

CBS’s Stephen Colbert stayed up for a live show on what turned out to be Wednesday morning after President Donald Trump’s address to Congress. Colbert spent his monologue praising Rep. Al Green for getting kicked out of the House chamber and attacking Trump on everything from transgender issues to shipbuilding. Later, he would welcome former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to wonder, “…

CBS’s Stephen Colbert freaked out on Wednesday’s edition of The Late Show over changes the White House has made to the press pool, claiming, “Trump and his team have a taste of the blood of journalists.” Colbert was so distraught that CNN’s Pamela Brown had to urge patience a bit later in the show as she suggested a wait-and-see approach to the changes.

CBS’s Stephen Colbert kicked off Tuesday’s edition of The Late Show by applauding federal employees who responded with porn to Elon Musk’s email where he demanded to know five things they accomplished the previous week.

When Monica Lewinsky traveled to CBS and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Thursday to promote her new podcast, she briefly popped the show’s liberal bubble by lamenting to the eponymous host that if what she went through in 1998 were to happen with some future Democratic president, she isn’t convinced the reaction would be any different.

Through the first four weeks of President Donald Trump’s second term, the late night comedians have told 761 jokes about him. By contrast, in 2021, during President Joe Biden’s first four weeks in office, the late night comedians told a total of 88 jokes about the new chief executive, according to an MRC study.

Actor George Clooney traveled over to CBS and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday to promote the stage adaptation of his 2005 movie Good Night, and Good Luck about Edward R. Murrow and McCarthyism. With modern-day politics an obvious backdrop, Clooney urged journalists to be on the “right side of history” even if it “is not fun at the moment.”