{"id":2194399,"date":"2025-12-11T04:04:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T04:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2194399"},"modified":"2025-12-11T04:04:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T04:04:25","slug":"colbert-audience-explodes-over-sharp-joke-about-parent-companys-warner-bros-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/colbert-audience-explodes-over-sharp-joke-about-parent-companys-warner-bros-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Colbert\u2019 Audience Explodes Over Sharp Joke About Parent Company&#8217;s Warner Bros. Bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThe Late Show\u201d audience erupted in cheers on Tuesday \u2014 and even chanted <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entertainment\/topic\/stephen-colbert\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Stephen Colbert\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"6939640ce4b0fb6244b145c0\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"\/entertainment\/topic\/stephen-colbert\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"feed\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"0\">Stephen Colbert<\/a>\u2019s name \u2014 after the host delivered a pointed line about Paramount Skydance\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/paramount-hostile-bid-for-warner-bros-discovery_n_6936de25e4b013f1f7d21ff3\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"hostile takeover bid\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"6939640ce4b0fb6244b145c0\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"6936de25e4b013f1f7d21ff3\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"buzz\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"1\">hostile takeover bid<\/a> for Warner Bros. Discovery.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Paramount launched its $108 billion offer this week, days after Warner announced plans to sell to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entertainment\/topic\/netflix\">Netflix<\/a> in an $82.7 billion deal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cWow. I gotta say, if my company\u2019s got that kind of green, I\u2019m sure they can afford to uncancel one of their best shows,\u201d Colbert quipped.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The audience roared and began chanting Colbert\u2019s name.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThe people know. The people know,\u201d he said, before joking about the possible return of \u201cThe Equalizer.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The moment was a clear jab at CBS\u2019 decision to cancel Colbert\u2019s show come May. The network claimed in its announcement this summer that it was \u201cpurely a financial decision.\u201d But it came as Paramount sought approval from the Trump administration for its now-completed merger with Skydance and amid Trump\u2019s repeated calls for Colbert, a huge critic of the president, to be shut down.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Watch from the nine-minute mark here:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Late Show\u201d audience erupted in cheers on Tuesday \u2014 and even chanted Stephen Colbert\u2019s name \u2014 after the host delivered a pointed line about Paramount Skydance\u2019s hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. Paramount launched its $108 billion offer this week, days after Warner announced plans to sell to Netflix in an $82.7 billion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2194400,"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":[25174],"tags":[22653],"class_list":["post-2194399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-stephen-colbert"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\u2018Colbert-Audience-Explodes-Over-Sharp-Joke-About-Parent-Companys-Warner.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194399","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=2194399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2194401,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194399\/revisions\/2194401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2194400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2194399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2194399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2194399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}