Jay Douglas, 79, said he was “never a big Colbert fan.”<\/p>\n
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But yesterday, he was standing outside the Ed Sullivan Theater wearing a “Late Show” T-shirt to voice his displeasure with show’s cancellation. <\/p>\n
<\/p>\n Nancy and Jay Douglas.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Matt Lavietes \/ NBC News<\/span><\/p>\n <\/figure>\n <\/p>\n “For me, it’s a free speech issue,” he said. “And I don’t think that the Trump administration, or any administration, has the right to censor what we watch on television just because it irritates the president.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Douglas said CBS just lost two viewers: him and his wife.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n “I’m hoping across the country there are people who are going to watch tonight and say: ‘I have now watched my last show on CBS,'” he said.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Richie Vitale and Diane Rosen.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Lauren Wilson \/ NBC News<\/span><\/p>\n <\/figure>\n <\/p>\n Richie Vitale and Diane Rosen also showed their solidarity with Colbert standing outside the theater holding signs. Vitale held up a sign that read “Keep Colbert Fire Trump.” <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Meanwhile, Rosen’s sign was a message addressed to Colbert. “Stephen,” it read, “When I found out you were cancelled, I was shocked! Then I got mad! Paramount Plus gave in to a corrupt President who cares little about the American People. Thank you for standing up to what’s right — our laws, truth, democracy. You will be missed.” <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ardith Collins, of New Jersey, held two signs. Because she came from work, she said, she got a box from a hotel around the corner to make them while she was outside. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n “See BS,” read one, a play on the network’s name. “The privilege of silence is temporary,” read the other. <\/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.nbcnews.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jay Douglas, 79, said he was “never a big Colbert fan.” But yesterday, he was standing outside the Ed Sullivan Theater wearing a “Late Show” T-shirt to voice his displeasure with show’s cancellation. Nancy and Jay Douglas.\u00a0Matt Lavietes \/ NBC News “For me, it’s a free speech issue,” he said. “And I don’t think that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2427588,"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":[],"class_list":["post-2427587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/CBS-airs-last-\u2018Late-Show-with-Stephen-Colbert-Highlights-audience.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427587","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=2427587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2427590,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427587\/revisions\/2427590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2427588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2427587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2427587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2427587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/c_fill,g_auto,w_1875,h_2500\/rockcms\/2026-05\/260521-Stephen-Colbert-finale-vsb-1755-fe1535.jpg\")
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