Stephen Colbert could have revealed what his subsequent transfer can be. Late present is over on CBS. On the identical time, CBS completely revealed that they had been behind Colbert’s Might 22 public entry particular in Michigan, one which aired the day after the community’s long-running late-night franchise ended.
Within the traditional rush to on-line judgment that we have all turn out to be far too accustomed to, a digital storm has swept via this weekend and David Ellison-owned CBS Studios is sending out takedown notices in an try to crush individuals watching the very low-tech movie. Solely in Monroe episode that Colbert hosted within the Nice Lakes State the day after his final (and really, very nicely watched) Final present broadcast.
This isn’t the case.
Sure, CBS was sending takedown notices till earlier right this moment. No, CBS isn’t attempting to take away Solely in Monroe. The truth is, they paid for it.
Like all enterprise, CBS is attempting, or was attempting, to guard its belongings from scams and scams – till it obtained uninterested in all of it.
“Stephen Colbert’s return to Monroe within the Solely in Monroe The episode was financed and produced by CBS Studios and was launched on Stephen Colbert’s YouTube channel in collaboration with Monroe Group Media and The late presentCBS’s “YouTube Channels,” a CBS spokesperson mentioned in a press release Sunday after accusations of censorship and pettiness erupted on-line. “As is our commonplace apply, we ship copyright notices to unauthorized web sites that submit copyrighted content material from CBS and our community/studio expertise resembling Stephen Colbert. Nonetheless, for this episode, we’ve determined to forgo enforcement of this trade commonplace apply till additional evaluate.”
Which is mainly a examine written by CBS saying FU to the haters after months of beatings and jabs (a number of it from Colbert himself) for Colbert and the Late Present franchise’s rosy slide final 12 months. Now, was Colbert actually canned in July 2025 as a result of The late present is it too costly to proceed within the late-night decline style? He was given practically a 12 months to depart after mocking CBS and Donald Trump over the previous’s $16 million fee to the latter to settle a questionable dispute. 60 minutes trial?
I imply…it is as much as you.
Nonetheless, with all of the hypothesis about what Colbert will do subsequent apart from writing a brand new Lord of the Rings the film’s storyline and no matter CBS’s “for this episode” means, it appears fairly apparent that it may occur on-line a method or one other.
In different phrases, the one video on Colbert’s private YouTube channel, launched on April 21, is the Solely in Monroe video. It is a fairly secure guess that he will not stay the one one, as Colbert seems able to comply with within the footsteps of different comics and content material creators and use YouTube’s large viewers as at the least a partial dwelling.
The very fact is that YouTube is greater than community tv and streamers.
One other reality is that with initiatives resembling its settlement to host the Oscars beginning in 2029, the Google-owned platform intends to develop even additional and add a few of the greatest and brightest of the small display screen to its roster.
On Colbert’s personal channel and with Ellison’s CBS footing at the least a good portion of the invoice, Solely in Monroe is nearly excellent flexibility of timing and execution for each reset and continuity.
The hour-long particular that includes Jack White, Eminem, Steve Buscemi and Jeff Daniels, which remembers Colbert’s public look in Michigan throughout the first week of his Late present in September 2015, has collected 409,000 views within the final two days. Although Colbert’s YT channel now has 80,500 subscribers, it’s nothing in comparison with the views and subscribers of sure websites that printed theirs. Solely in Monroe video from the final days, AKA the websites that CBS needed YT to take away their content material from.
Colbert on the finish of final week on the very native Solely in Monroe defined what he was doing there and took a chew out of Paramount (which is quickly anticipated to accumulate Warner Bros. Discovery for $111 billion in a course of accelerated by the Trump administration). “Since my final time right here in Monroe, Michigan, I spent 11 years because the lead host of The Late Present with Stephen Colbert on CBS, which ended final night time,” the host mentioned on set. “It’s been an excruciating 23 hours with out being on tv, so I’m grateful to have the ability to be right here on Monroe Group Media earlier than they get acquired by Paramount as nicely.”
He neglected that he was grateful to Paramount and CBS for paying for the entire epilogue and prologue, however that is why they name it present enterprise, proper?