<\/p>\n
In a new cover story with GQ<\/a>, Colbert<\/a> was asked about his CBS<\/a> show\u2019s sudden axing in July, shortly after he criticized parent company Paramount<\/a>\u2019s $16 million \u201c60 Minutes<\/a>\u201d settlement with President Donald Trump<\/a> on air. Besides the \u201c60 Minutes<\/a>\u201d lawsuit, Paramount was also waiting on FCC<\/a> approval at the time for its merger with Skydance. In a statement at the time, the company said…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Stephen Colbert has spoken on theories claiming \u201cThe Late Show\u2019s\u201d cancellation may have been politically motivated, saying that it\u2019s \u201ca reasonable thing to think\u201d but ultimately refusing to \u201cengage in that speculation.\u201d In a new cover story with GQ, Colbert was asked about his CBS show\u2019s sudden axing in July, shortly after he criticized parent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2132438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2132437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Stephen-Colbert-Confronts-Theories-Claiming-Trump-Got-\u2018The-Late-Show.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2132437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2132439,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132437\/revisions\/2132439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2132438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2132437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2132437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2132437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}