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“The Late Show,” on CBS, with Stephen Colbert, is dead and gone. It has literally become the late show.
For the past eleven years, Stephen Colbert has been stirring the pot with his comedic takes on politics, social events, and a string of like-minded guests, illustrating how late-night shows mirror and influence societal debates.
Colbert skated through his monologues and dialogues with his guests on the free speech platform and freedom of the press.
And then the owner of a Newspaper, ironically named the Free Press (Bari Weiss), took over CBS.
In July 2025, CBS advised Colbert that they were canceling his late-night show, with the grand finale scheduled for Thursday, May 21, 2026.
On Friday, May 22, CBS replaced Stephen Colbert in the 11:35 p.m. time slot with “Comics Unleashed,” hosted by Byron Allen.
During his opening monologue on Monday, July 14, 2025, Colbert called a financial agreement between President Trump and CBS a “big fat bribe.”
During the 2024 Presidential campaign, a presidential candidate (V.P.) Kamala Harris took an interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes news show.
Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election and will serve a second term in office.
However, Trump alleges that CBS deceptively edited the Kamala Harris 60 Minutes interview to make her appear competent.
The President sued CBS’s parent company for $10 billion. Trump sued CBS at a time when CBS’s parent company, Paramount Global, had business dealings with Trump’s FCC.
The owners of Paramount Global, Larry and David Ellison, quickly settled the President’s lawsuit.
The settlement cleared the way for the FCC to give the green light to the Ellisons’ $8 billion merger of Paramount Global with Skydance Media.
"The Late Show" with Stephen Colbert is now The Late Show.
Comics On A Leash Has Been Around.
While Byron Allen’s hosted show, Comics Unleashed, is new to most late-night viewers, it has been on the air for more than 10 years.
Sixty-five-year-old Byron Allen has been around on the comic strip for decades. Allen started his comedic career at 14 years old at the Comedy Store.
On May 22, 1979, at 18, Allen appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. He was the youngest comedian ever to appear on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
On May 22, 2026, 47 years to date, after his first appearance on late-night television, media mogul Byron Allen brought his Comics Unleashed to late-night prime-time television.
The shadow of President Trump looms large over comedians.
Stephen Colbert’s Sympathy Ratings Bonanza.
Stephen Colbert’s last Late Night Show proved to be a ratings bonanza for CBS.
According to Nielsen, the show drew an “estimated 6.74 million live + same-day viewers.” That is twice the number of live viewers for the Late Night Show, which normally averages 2.69 million.
Meanwhile, Allen’s Comics on a leash, which averaged between 466, 000 and 1.1 million viewers, also saw an increase in viewership leading up to the show’s new prime slot.
YouTube commenters and critics panned the show’s first episode in its new time slot.
Allen hosted comedians Earthquake, Big Roz, Tony Roberts, and Tony Luewellyn.
Comedian Earthquake is always funny, but the show seems like a throwback to BET’s Comic View.
They were lost in the sauce and outdated.
When CBS puts its comedians on a short leash, forbidding them from talking about politicians and social issues of the day, they’re ineffective.
Politics is not just local, it’s always current.
The comedian Earthquake, as usual, was funny and entertaining; overall, though, the four guests delivered a juvenile first night.
The show consisted of your mamma has a beard and wears soldier boots, kind of show.
All four comics seem not to have realized that the world has moved on, leaving them stuck in the 90s.
"The Late Show" with Stephen Colbert is now The Late Show.
ComicView unleashed on a leash.
Before the episode of “Comics Unleashed” aired, the show’s host, Allen, said no one would be allowed to talk about politics.
Three days later, CBS announced Colbert’s layoff due to ‘financial reasons.’
In the first episode of Comics Unleashed, Allen hosted a formatted version of BET’s 1992 ComicView.
Some of the at-the-time up-and-coming BET ComicView performers are now veteran comics, such as Earthquake and (man-spreading) Big Roz.
During the show, Big Roz said little; someone speculated that she was waiting for one man to say something “sexist,” which is everything that men say today.
They don’t know that to be the case. But everybody is getting in on the trending hustle.
Great is the number of wealth-transfer seekers to put on their feminist hats and sue for a wealth transfer.
For some people, it is a new way of making money.
Stephen Colbert is out; Byron Allen is sneaking in.
CBS pushed out Stephen Colbert for his politically correct points of view — in the eyes of the Republicans, those views are politically incorrect.
That is one reason nonviolent freedom of expression is vital to American democracy.
One may not always agree with someone else’s siloed views, but stifling breath is not the way to go.
Soon, the nation will say, “I can’t breathe.”
Where there is no breath (oxygen) in human flesh, there is no life.
The spirit to believe in something bigger than themselves will have been snuffed out by the government.
The American patriots will withdraw within themselves, seeking the lost spirit.
Many Black Americans have a mighty distrust of Byron Allen.
They view Allen as someone who likes to play the race card whenever it suits him.
"Give Sharpton a bucket of chicken and $50 to shut him up." -- Byron Allen
Byron Allen Self-Centered Black Cause.
While Donald Trump has a history of suing people, the President may have learned from Byron Allen How To Sue Media Companies.
Byron Allen has sued his way into hundreds of millions of dollars and huge business contracts.
Allen’s Black cause lawsuits and deals are self-centered settlements. They’re not community-oriented or Black America’s deals.
When Al Sharpton criticized Allen’s sue-happy personality, Allen responded, ‘Al Sharpton is a sellout.‘
According to Allen, white folks need to ‘give Al Sharpton a bucket of chicken and $50k, and he’ll disappear.’
Some in the Black community do recognize that Al Sharpton is somewhat fancy and loose with taking money, but they also know that Sharpton has street cred.
Agree or disagree with his tactics, Al Sharpton does have some street credibility. He’s been on many front lines.
Sharpton has been in places where no one has ever seen Byron Allen — except in safe places in the Massa’s house.
Byron Allen is a shrewd businessman.
Trump sues, Allen sues, Allen sues, Trump sues. When Donald Trump sues media companies, he gets a lot of grief.
When Byron Allen sues media companies, he’s a champion for Black America. Yeah.
In 2015, Allen sued Comcast for $20 billion, alleging that Comcast refused to carry his programs. In 2020, Comcast settled the lawsuit with Allen.
In 2016, Allen also sued Warner Cable for $10 billion. The suit was settled in 2021.
In 2015, Allen also sued and settled with AT&T/DirecTV for racial bias. Those lawsuits were all beneficial only to Allen.
In 2025, President Trump sued ABC and CBS for failing to air Trump-friendly programs.
Both ABC and CBS settled with the President for millions of dollars.
And in CBS’s case, it got rid of ‘unfriendly’ Stephen Colbert and replaced him with Byron Allen.
Byron Allen is a shrewd businessman, and one that African Americans could learn a lot from. Play the system; don’t let the system play you.
At the end of the day, it is a game, and most people get played.
“Think globally, act locally.”
It is crucial to be forward-thinking but not a forward person. “Be kind to everyone you meet because each carries his heavy burden…” Plato.
Embrace the three Constants: change, justice, and rightness.
The thought police are busy at work trying to suppress free speech. If allowed their march to madness, they will arrest your very thoughts.
“Free speech, but not free reach.” — Social media titans.
Free speech is thy Lord.
