Stephen Colbert to host ‘The Late Present’ one final time on Thursday – NBC Los Angeles

Stephen Colbert’s lengthy goodbye to late-night TV ends Thursday night time when the host of “The Late Present” seems behind his CBS desk for the ultimate time.

What’s deliberate for the finale has not been revealed however the people at “The Late Present” have had months to organize for the top of the community’s 33-year franchise.

Company within the remaining week have included Michael Keaton, Jon Stewart, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Steven Spielberg, David Byrne and Bruce Springsteen, whereas there’s been a wacky model of “It’s Raining Males” remade into “It’s Raining Fish.”

CBS introduced final summer season that Colbert’s present would finish, citing financial causes after 11 seasons. However Colbert is the rankings chief in late-night TV. Many — together with Colbert — have expressed skepticism that President Donald Trump’s repeated criticism of the present wasn’t an element.

The choice to shutter the present got here after father or mother firm Paramount’s $16 million settlement of Trump’s lawsuit over a “60 Minutes” interview as Paramount awaited his administration‘s approval of a pending sale to Skydance Media. Colbert had known as it a “large fats bribe.”

Dustin Kidd, a professor of sociology at Temple College, notes that Colbert leaves on the high of his sport and because the rankings chief on late night time. Canceling him can’t be defined strictly by way of economics, he stated.

“I’d argue that it’s answerable, frankly, by way of politics,” Kidd stated. “There’s been a variety of political stress levied in opposition to this present and a variety of political stress at work inside CBS extra usually. And I believe that has much more to supply when it comes to explaining why this present, at the moment.”

Colbert’s chief rivals, ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Dwell!” and NBC’s “The Tonight Present with Jimmy Fallon,” will each run reruns on Thursday night time similtaneously Colbert’s goodbye.

CBS will fill “The Late Present” slot with “Comics Unleashed,” by which comedians share tales. Host Byron Allen has vowed to keep away from politics.