Stephen Colbert

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• 2026-02-17 17:43 UTC [L..T] CBS host Stephen Colbert says network barred airing interview with Texas US Senate candidate «CBS late-night show host Stephen Colbert said on Monday that the network's lawyers barred him from airing an interview with Democratic Texas State Representative James Talarico, who is running for his party's nomination for the U.S. Senate.» ... «The Republican-led FCC said last month that daytime and late-night TV talk shows are no longer considered "bona fide" news programs that are exempt from equal time rules that require them to give air time to the views of opposing candidates. [..] Colbert criticized FCC Chair Brendan Carr and the network's lawyers, saying they were unilaterally enforcing Carr's directive for "purely financial reasons." [..] Those words echoed the explanation Paramount provided when it announced in July that Colbert's program would go off the air in May as it was seeking approval from the Federal Communications Commission for its $8.4 billion merger with Skydance Media.»
• 2026-02-17 [L..T] Stephen Colbert Tells Brendan Carr: Go FCC Yourself «This isn’t even the first incident of blatant censorship at CBS this year. A month ago, after the shooting of Renee Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, CBS’s head of news, Bari Weiss, published a story parroting the administration’s lies, despite major dissent from journalists in the newsroom. [..] When that happened, I said we weren’t quite at blunt force media censorship. That this was an insidious quid pro quo. CBS installs Bari Weiss as a mouthpiece of the state in exchange for favors. [..] We’re well beyond that now. You have FCC chair Brendan Carr siccing CBS lawyers on a late night host telling him exactly what he can and can’t say.»
• 2014-04-10 [L..T] Rush Limbaugh Freaks Out About Stephen Colbert Getting 'Late Show' According to Rush Limbaugh, "Colbert's new job is nothing less than a grave political, constitutional, and moral crisis in American television."
• 2006-08-01 [L..T] Stephen Colbert Causes Chaos on Wikipedia, Gets Blocked from Site «On Monday night's episode of The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert addressed the online resource Wikipedia, the encyclopedia that anyone can read or edit. Colbert praised Wikipedia for "wikiality," the reality that exists if you make something up and enough people agree with you - it becomes reality. Colbert's subsequent examples to prove "wikiality" would cause chaos on the site, and lead an administrator to subsequently block his account.»