The men of late night reacted to the news that CBS has cancelled The Late Show with varying degrees of intelligence on their Monday shows. On the dumb end of the spectrum was fellow Paramount employee Jon Stewart, who reacted on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show by telling CBS to “go fuck” itself and dropping countless additional F-bombs.
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Colbert himself was more reserved, “CBS, who I want to reiterate have always been great partners, put out a statement saying very nice things about me and about the show, and thank you to them for that.”
He did have one dud, “How could it be a purely financial decision if The Late Show is number one in the ratings?... somebody at CBS followed up their gracious press release with a gracious anonymous leak, saying they pulled the plug on our show because of losses pegged between 40 million and $50 million a year. Forty million's a big number. I could see us losing $24 million. But where would Paramount have possibly spent the other 16 mill — oh, yeah.”
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