The Hollywood commerce publication Selection has demonstrated a dramatic anti-Trump bias – they’d name it an anti-fascist bias. So it was stunning that they printed an article beneath the headline “Stephen Colbert’s Lengthy ‘Late Present’ Goodbye Has Gone From Resistance to Ego Journey.”
TV reviewer Daniel D’Addario — who simply weeks in the past trashed the brand new CBS Night Information anchorman Tony Dokoupil as an untalented however bold man along with his finger within the wind — couldn’t abide Monday’s episode, the place actor John Lithgow learn a Colbert-ogling poem titled “The Mighty Colbert.”
Lithgow honored the “chic masterworks” which might be Colbert’s monologues, and requested, “So why is he canceled? Why trash all that pleasure? Why yank off the air this beloved nationwide treasure? Stephen’s story is a lesson for all who come after: Watch out for a boss with skinny pores and skin and no laughter.”
Even the leftists at VARIETY thinks that CBS is enabling an extended Colbert ‘ego journey,’ as John Lithgow reads Stephen a poem about how he is a Nationwide Treasure. *urp* pic.twitter.com/sAPlnzemtQ
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) March 15, 2026
D’Addario declared “by this level in his lame-duck tenure, Colbert is probably going accustomed to limitless fawning from his company!” He declared the information of his cancellation “seismic,” however added “What has ended up making it to air has been an more and more puffy tribute to the present’s personal host. The limitless bouquets being tossed Colbert’s approach have began to make the studio scent a bit cloying.”
He acknowledged that Colbert’s well-known followers are actually emotional on his set. “However the present’s focus by itself host’s misfortune has turn out to be outsized and a bit dramatic, particularly as a result of so many different establishments are in disaster: With all the pieces else happening on the earth, we now have to undergo a monthslong celebration-of-life for a comic whose job is coming to an finish?”
Clearly, boosting Colbert as each a legend and a sufferer is a crucial a part of Colbert’s subsequent chapter.
“The reason for standing up for a comic who might have been tossed apart for angering the regime is getting tied up in honoring Colbert the superstar, and it’s beginning to really feel wearying,” D’Addario wrote. “Colbert deserved higher therapy from CBS, however watching one individual beam whereas receiving laurel after laurel doesn’t make the argument for his present’s relevance, because it’s frankly not superb TV, and — for this relentlessly political host — not in contact with the considerations of people that have been turning to The Late Present for its political perspective.”
He concluded that Colbert’s profession is much from over, however “When that day comes, gained’t it really feel like an anticlimax, after we’ve already spent the higher a part of a 12 months celebrating him?”
