Jamie Lee Curtis has spoken.
The “Freakier Friday” star, 66, shared her ideas about CBS canceling Stephen Colbert’s “The Late Show” throughout an look this previous Thursday on the Las Culturistas Tradition Awards.
“It’s bad,” Curtis informed Selection throughout the Los Angeles occasion. “I’m excited that I will get to be on his show in about two weeks. I’ve never been on his show.”
“I really like him,” she added. “He’s smart and funny and a lovely human. It’s awful.”
The “Halloween” star’s remarks on the Orpheum Theatre got here the identical day that CBS introduced “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” could be pulled off the air in Could 2026 following the present’s subsequent season.
Though the community claimed that the transfer was “purely a financial decision,” it introduced main backlash and controversy.
“We consider Stephen Colbert irreplaceable and will retire ‘The Late Show’ franchise in May of 2026,” CBS mentioned in a press release. “We are proud that Stephen called CBS home. He and the broadcast will be remembered in the pantheon of greats that graced late-night television.”
“This is purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night,” the community added. “It is not related in any way to the show’s performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount.”
Colbert himself addressed the scenario whereas taping Thursday night time’s present on the Ed Sullivan Theatre in New York.
The comic revealed that he realized the information on Wednesday and expressed his appreciation to CBS for permitting him to host “The Late Show” for greater than 10 seasons.
“I’m not being replaced, this is all just going away,” Colbert, 61, defined. “I do want to say that the folks at CBS have been great partners. I’m so grateful to the Tiffany Network for giving me this chair and this beautiful theater to call home.”
“And of course, I’m grateful to you, the audience who have joined us,” he continued. “And I am extraordinarily, deeply grateful to the 200 people who work here. We get to do this show for each other, every day, all day.”
“It is a fantastic job. I wish someone else was getting it,” the host concluded.
Nonetheless, not everybody was as sleek as Colbert relating to the stunning information.
Fellow late-night host Jimmy Kimmel blasted CBS over its resolution to cancel “The Late Show,” and Jimmy Fallon mentioned that he was “shocked” by the transfer.
“Love you Stephen,” Kimmel, 57, wrote on his Instagram Story on Thursday night time. “F–k you and all your Sheldons CBS.”
“I’m just as shocked as everyone,” Fallon, 50, added Friday morning. “Stephen is one of the sharpest, funniest hosts to ever do it.”
“I really thought I’d ride this out with him for years to come,” the “Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” host added.
By the point “The Late Show” ends in Could 2026, Colbert can have hosted 10 full seasons and greater than 1,600 episodes.
The previous “Colbert Report” anchor took over the enduring late-night desk in 2015 when David Letterman retired from the position after 22 years.
