{"id":181959,"date":"2025-07-21T04:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T04:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/21\/john-oliver-calls-late-show-with-stephen-colbert-cancelation-incredibly-sad-terrible-news-for-comedy\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T04:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T04:15:10","slug":"john-oliver-calls-late-show-with-stephen-colbert-cancelation-incredibly-sad-terrible-news-for-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/21\/john-oliver-calls-late-show-with-stephen-colbert-cancelation-incredibly-sad-terrible-news-for-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"John Oliver Calls \u2018Late Show With Stephen Colbert\u2019 Cancelation \u2018Incredibly Sad\u2019 &#038; \u2018Terrible News for Comedy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\t\t<span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/john-oliver\/\" title=\"John Oliver\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>John Oliver<\/strong><\/a> is the latest talk show host to react to the cancelation of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert\/\" title=\"The Late Show With Stephen Colbert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Late Show With Stephen Colbert<\/strong><\/a><\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>The 48-year-old Last Week Tonight host spoke to reporters over the weekend and shared his thoughts on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/07\/17\/late-show-with-stephen-colbert-ending-in-2026-cbs-explains-why-in-shocking-announcement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBS\u2019 surprise decision last week<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><strong>John<\/strong> has been longtime friends with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/stephen-colbert\/\" title=\"Stephen Colbert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Stephen Colbert<\/strong><\/a>, and finds the controversial decision \u201cincredibly sad.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"hidearticle\"><em>Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/em><\/strong><span id=\"more-2127549\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, I love <strong>Stephen<\/strong>, I love his staff, I love that show \u2014 it\u2019s incredibly sad,\u201d he said, via <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/john-oliver-late-show-stephen-colbert-cancellation-sad-1236324435\/#recipient_hashed=b92941641788d15805f03b377d572994d12bdade7478975c93d0143007f01373&amp;recipient_salt=e829000bb0b218c27fbd0c12f4a38481876a8ab041cc990efde89259509b9611&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=exacttarget&amp;utm_campaign=Breaking%20News&amp;utm_content=621815_07-20-2025&amp;utm_term=56896?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=exacttarget&amp;utm_campaign=1753067642-Breaking+News&amp;utm_content=621815_7-20-2025&amp;utm_id=621815\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/john-oliver-late-show-stephen-colbert-cancellation-sad-1236324435\/#recipient_hashed=b92941641788d15805f03b377d572994d12bdade7478975c93d0143007f01373&amp;recipient_salt=e829000bb0b218c27fbd0c12f4a38481876a8ab041cc990efde89259509b9611&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=exacttarget&amp;utm_campaign=Breaking%20News&amp;utm_content=621815_07-20-2025&amp;utm_term=56896?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=exacttarget&amp;utm_campaign=1753067642-Breaking+News&amp;utm_content=621815_7-20-2025&amp;utm_id=621815&#039;); return false;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">THR<\/a><\/em>. \u201cI\u2019m partly excited to see what they\u2019re gonna do for the next 10 months. It\u2019s terrible, terrible news for the world of comedy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLate-night shows mean a lot to me, not just because I work in them, because even growing up in England, I would watch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/dave-letterman\/\" title=\"Dave Letterman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>[Dave] Letterman<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s show, which of course was <strong>Stephen<\/strong>\u2019s show, and think about what a glamorous world that was,\u201d <strong>John <\/strong>added. \u201cSo to have got to have been on <strong>Letterman<\/strong>\u2019s show and <strong>Stephen<\/strong>\u2019s show was always one of the most fun things. So it\u2019s very, very, very sad news. I look forward to seeing what [<strong>Colbert<\/strong> is] gonna do next because that man will not stop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you missed it, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/07\/20\/every-talk-show-hosts-reaction-to-colberts-late-show-cancellation-at-cbs-1-media-mogul-agrees-with-the-decision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see what other talk show hosts have said <\/a>about<em> The Late Show<\/em>\u2018s cancelation. <\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.2&appId=145071315902360\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/07\/21\/john-oliver-calls-late-show-with-stephen-colbert-cancelation-incredibly-sad-terrible-news-for-comedy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Oliver is the latest talk show host to react to the cancelation of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert! The 48-year-old Last Week Tonight host spoke to reporters over the weekend and shared his thoughts on CBS\u2019 surprise decision last week. John has been longtime friends with Stephen Colbert, and finds the controversial decision [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":181960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-181959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}