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Stephen Colbert<\/a> didn\u2019t hold back on Monday\u2019s (February 16) Late Show as he blasted his CBS<\/a> bosses and FCC<\/a> chairman Brendan Carr<\/a> for banning his interview with Texas Democratic state representative James Talarico<\/a>. At the top of the show, the late-night host introduced his house band and hyped the line-up of guests for Monday\u2019s show, which included The Last Thing He Told Me<\/a> star Jennifer Garner<\/a>. He then told his audience, \u201cYou know who is not one of my guests tonight? That\u2019s Texas state representative James Talarico.\u201d Colbert<\/a> went on to explain, \u201cHe was supposed to be here, but we were told in no uncertain terms by our network\u2019s lawyers,…<\/div>\n

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Stephen Colbert didn\u2019t hold back on Monday\u2019s (February 16) Late Show as he blasted his CBS bosses and FCC chairman Brendan Carr for banning his interview with Texas Democratic state representative James Talarico. At the top of the show, the late-night host introduced his house band and hyped the line-up of guests for Monday\u2019s show, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2285648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":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-2285647","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\/02\/Stephen-Colbert-Slams-CBS-On-Air-for-Banning-Interview-With-Democrat.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285647","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=2285647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2285649,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285647\/revisions\/2285649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2285648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2285647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2285647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2285647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}