{"id":2428362,"date":"2026-05-22T17:41:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2428362"},"modified":"2026-05-22T17:41:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:41:16","slug":"furious-maga-hosts-melt-down-at-colbert-finale-frenzy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/furious-maga-hosts-melt-down-at-colbert-finale-frenzy\/","title":{"rendered":"Furious MAGA Hosts Melt Down at Colbert Finale Frenzy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mid-level MAGA media voices have melted down over the attention paid to Stephen Colbert\u2019s final episode of <i>The Late Show.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Colbert wound up his 11-year-run on the CBS late-night show on Thursday night, after the network controversially axed the long-running program last July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/articles\/cbs-blindsides-stephen-colbert-canceling-234538071.html\" rel=\"\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:cancellation;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;cancellation&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">cancellation<\/a> came just three days after Colbert, 62, slammed the network\u2019s MAGA-friendly parent company, Paramount, for its <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/trump-gets-paramount-cough-millions-042737756.html\" rel=\"\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:$16 million settlement;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;$16 million settlement&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">$16 million settlement<\/a> with Trump.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-0 size-full\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-3 right-3 rounded-full bg-primary p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-primary\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" class=\"flex-none size-4 -scale-x-100 text-primary lg:size-6 [&amp;_path]:fill-current\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M3.1 3.1V11h1.8V6.314l5.392 5.393 1.415-1.414L6.313 4.9H11V3.1zm17.8 17.8V13h-1.8v4.686l-5.393-5.393-1.415 1.414 5.393 5.393H13v1.8z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed bottom-0 left-0 right-0 top-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-primary hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p>Stephen Colbert\u2019s TV show ended on Thursday night. \/ Eduardo Munoz \/ REUTERS<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI believe this kind of complicated financial settlement with a sitting government official has a technical name in legal circles: it\u2019s big, fat bribe,\u201d Colbert said on his show at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In a bitter <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116616669222083429\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Truth Social;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Truth Social&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Truth Social<\/a> message posted just before 2 a.m., Trump took a parting shot at the host following his finale airing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cColbert is finally finished at CBS,\u201d Trump wrote. \u201cAmazing that he lasted so long! No talent, no ratings, no life. He was like a dead person. You could take any person off of the street and they would be better than this total jerk. Thank goodness he\u2019s finally gone!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The demise of Colbert\u2019s show gave MAGA mouthpieces on cable fresh ammunition to gloat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ahead of the finale, Fox News\u2019 deliberate comedian Greg Gutfeld <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/latenightercom\/status\/2057503000638398616\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:joked;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;joked&quot;}\" class=\"link \">joked<\/a> that Colbert was now his Uber driver.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\"Greg Gutfield makes a joke about Stephen Colbert. \/ screen grab\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"509\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/bDU51bLwCi456vmQSkSymA--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTUwOTtjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/thedailybeast.com\/5c214611c5fc510c5d6e271cd9eaeb48\"\/><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-0 size-full\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-3 right-3 rounded-full bg-primary p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-primary\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" class=\"flex-none size-4 -scale-x-100 text-primary lg:size-6 [&amp;_path]:fill-current\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M3.1 3.1V11h1.8V6.314l5.392 5.393 1.415-1.414L6.313 4.9H11V3.1zm17.8 17.8V13h-1.8v4.686l-5.393-5.393-1.415 1.414 5.393 5.393H13v1.8z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed bottom-0 left-0 right-0 top-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-primary hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p>Greg Gutfield makes a joke about Stephen Colbert. \/ screen grab<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Newsmax host Rob Finnerty dedicated four minutes to complaining about Colbert on his Thursday show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThis show was never about comedy,\u201d Finnerty claimed of <i>The Late Show<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cTo be clear, I\u2019ve got no issue with late-night hosts making fun of politicians or Donald Trump. But guess what? It\u2019s gotta go both ways, and it never does. Stephen Colbert could literally take his show to celebrity.land tomorrow night and not change a thing, and it would fit right in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Finnerty said when Colbert\u2019s program started on CBS, \u201cObama was president, woke was in,\u201d and claimed <i>The Late Show<\/i> \u201cnever rated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">However, <i>The Late Show<\/i> held the top spot in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/tonifitzgerald\/2026\/05\/21\/stephen-colbert-ratings-over-the-years-he-leaves-as-no-1-in-late-night\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:total viewers;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;total viewers&quot;}\" class=\"link \">total viewers<\/a> among late-night shows for nine consecutive seasons and led the crucial advertiser-friendly 18-49 demographic for seven.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\"Rob Finnerty slams Stephen Colbert on Newsmax. \/ screen grab\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"537\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/K.p67lvuZXWoxWnF4HN76Q--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTUzNztjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/thedailybeast.com\/6076f2165fe4c6aa06ecc3a81567852c\"\/><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-0 size-full\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-3 right-3 rounded-full bg-primary p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-primary\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" class=\"flex-none size-4 -scale-x-100 text-primary lg:size-6 [&amp;_path]:fill-current\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M3.1 3.1V11h1.8V6.314l5.392 5.393 1.415-1.414L6.313 4.9H11V3.1zm17.8 17.8V13h-1.8v4.686l-5.393-5.393-1.415 1.414 5.393 5.393H13v1.8z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed bottom-0 left-0 right-0 top-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-primary hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p>Rob Finnerty slams Stephen Colbert on Newsmax. \/ screen grab<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In the first quarter of 2026, Colbert maintained an impressive average of 2.7 million viewers, peaking at 2.8 million during a recent episode featuring other hosts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">While TV ratings are dropping overall, <i>The Late Show\u2019s<\/i> YouTube channel has over 10 million subscribers, tapping into an audience who don\u2019t watch broadcast television. Newsmax has 2.5 million subscribers on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Finnerty also diagnosed Colbert as \u201cthe first late-night host to come down with a wonderful affliction called Trump Derangement Syndrome.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\"Newsmax host Bob Brooks is not a Colbert fan. \/ screen grab\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"553\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/R703aqRlqr5PidEsP_09Ew--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTU1MztjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/thedailybeast.com\/397efe2e48c40f0bb24616f217fa4ec2\"\/><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-0 size-full\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-3 right-3 rounded-full bg-primary p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-primary\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" class=\"flex-none size-4 -scale-x-100 text-primary lg:size-6 [&amp;_path]:fill-current\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M3.1 3.1V11h1.8V6.314l5.392 5.393 1.415-1.414L6.313 4.9H11V3.1zm17.8 17.8V13h-1.8v4.686l-5.393-5.393-1.415 1.414 5.393 5.393H13v1.8z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed bottom-0 left-0 right-0 top-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-primary hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p>Newsmax host Bob Brooks is not a Colbert fan. \/ screen grab<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Newsmax host said Colbert \u201cblames Donald Trump, which has become like the mantra for the left. Something bad happens, and the excuse is always, yeah, but Trump, somehow it\u2019s always Donald Trump\u2019s fault.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Finnerty did admit, \u201cStephen Colbert has made me laugh. I don\u2019t know when, but I guarantee you over the last 11 years, he has made me laugh. So I\u2019m not just gonna be, like, dishonest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Another Newsmax host, Bob Brooks, also took the chance to slam Colbert on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWell, thank God we don\u2019t have to listen and watch that guy anymore,\u201d Brooks said after Colbert\u2019s final show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Calling him a \u201cDemocrat mouthpiece posing as a late night comedian,\u201d Brooks said the \u201cliberal media is all in mourning\u201d over his show ending.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Quoting a headline from The New York Times that said <i>The Late Show\u2019s<\/i> axing is the end of an era, Brooks said, \u201cYeah, it\u2019s the end of an era for non-stop Democrat propaganda, Trump-bashing on CBS late-night, because that\u2019s all it was.\u201d<\/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.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mid-level MAGA media voices have melted down over the attention paid to Stephen Colbert\u2019s final episode of The Late Show. Colbert wound up his 11-year-run on the CBS late-night show on Thursday night, after the network controversially axed the long-running program last July. The cancellation came just three days after Colbert, 62, slammed the network\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2428363,"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":[25172],"tags":[22653,24638],"class_list":["post-2428362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-stephen-colbert","tag-trump"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Furious-MAGA-Hosts-Melt-Down-at-Colbert-Finale-Frenzy.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428362","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=2428362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2428364,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428362\/revisions\/2428364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2428363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2428362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2428362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2428362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}