{"id":2220140,"date":"2026-01-02T17:57:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T17:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2220140"},"modified":"2026-01-02T17:57:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T17:57:46","slug":"stephen-colbert-says-dont-trust-billionaires-when-asked-about-major-lesson-of-2025-they-dont-get-rich-by-finding-that-money-on-the-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/stephen-colbert-says-dont-trust-billionaires-when-asked-about-major-lesson-of-2025-they-dont-get-rich-by-finding-that-money-on-the-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert Says \u2018Don\u2019t Trust Billionaires\u2019 When Asked About \u2018Major Lesson\u2019 of 2025: \u2018They Don\u2019t Get Rich by Finding That Money on the Side of the Road\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Stephen Colbert<\/a> capped off his 2025 with a video appearance on celebrity.land<\/a>\u2019s \u201cNew Year\u2019s Eve Live\u201d with Andy Cohen<\/a> and Anderson Cooper<\/a>, where the former asked the late-night host to tell viewers about the \u201cmajor lesson\u201d he learned during the year. Colbert<\/a>\u2019s 2025 was defined by CBS<\/a> canceling \u201cThe Late Show<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo much has happened in the last year of your life,\u201d Cohen<\/a> said during the telecast in a nod to Colbert\u2019s cancellation. \u201cI am curious what you left last year having learned\u2026 what is the major lesson you learned? It\u2019s not a controversial question.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t trust billionaires,\u201d Colbert said and then immediately started laughing. \u201cThey don\u2019t get rich by finding that money on the side of the road, brother!\u201d<\/p>\n

Colbert announced in July CBS\u2019 decision to pull \u201cThe Late Show<\/a>\u201d off the air. Network executives said the decision was \u201cpurely a financial decision against…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Stephen Colbert capped off his 2025 with a video appearance on celebrity.land\u2019s \u201cNew Year\u2019s Eve Live\u201d with Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper, where the former asked the late-night host to tell viewers about the \u201cmajor lesson\u201d he learned during the year. Colbert\u2019s 2025 was defined by CBS canceling \u201cThe Late Show.\u201d \u201cSo much has happened […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2220141,"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-2220140","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\/2026\/01\/Stephen-Colbert-Says-\u2018Dont-Trust-Billionaires-When-Asked-About-\u2018Major.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220140","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=2220140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2220142,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220140\/revisions\/2220142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2220141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2220140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2220140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2220140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}