Stephen Colbert told Donald Trump to “go f**k” himself after the U.S. President celebrated the cancellation of The Late Show. Last week, Trump cheered the news of The Late Show ending in a Truth Social post, writing, “I absolutely love that Colbert got fired. His talent was even less than his ratings. I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next.”
Colbert fired back during Monday’s episode. “How dare you, sir,” he said. “Would an untalented man be able to compose the following satirical witticism? Go f*ck yourself!”
He also responded to Trump’s suggestion that Jimmy Kimmel might be next to go. “Nope! No, no. Absolutely not, Kimmel,” Colbert said. “I am the martyr, okay? There’s only room for one on this cross-and I gotta tell you, the view is fantastic from up here!”
Colbert wrapped the segment with one final jab: “The only other story out there is kind of a small one-the president was buddies with a pedophile.”
Support From Comedians
A parade of comedy heavyweights – including Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, John Oliver, Jon Stewart, and Adam Sandler – filled the audience of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Monday night, rallying around Colbert just days after CBS cancelled the show despite multiple Emmy nominations.
Several of Colbert’s late-night rivals joined the show in a unified protest against CBS’s decision, appearing at the Ed Sullivan Theater in a mix of playful cameos and skits.
The show opened with “Weird Al” Yankovic and Lin-Manuel Miranda performing Coldplay’s “Viva la Vida,” a cheeky nod to the CEO cheating scandal that recently made headlines. As the song played, the camera panned to surprise celebrity guests in the crowd: Andy Cohen kissed Anderson Cooper, Fallon and Meyers shared beers and high-fives, Sandler and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog munched on fried food, while Oliver and Stewart hammed it up for the camera.
The segment ended with an animated Trump character holding a Paramount sign before ducking away – a satirical jab at CBS’s parent company.
