July 21, 2025

Trump Celebrates Colbert Cancellation While Rob Schneider Defends CBS Decision + Rosie O'Donnell Claps Back

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Patrick Gutfield breaks down the Stephen Colbert Late Show cancellation controversy, from Trump's suspicious Truth Social celebration to Rob Schneider's Fox News defense of CBS's "financial decision." Plus, Rosie O'Donnell delivers an epic Instagram response to Trump's citizenship threats. Get the full timeline of events and expert analysis on whether this was really about money or politics in today's late-night comedy roundup.

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Callaroga Shark media from Washington, DC, where we might not

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be as good as Stephen Colbert, but it's cheaper to produce.

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This is ballot, that's right, But stop trying to distract

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us and release the Epstein files. Hi. I'm Patrick Gutfield,

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and so far I haven't been canceled, but we do

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have actual experts weighing in on the Great Colbert cancelation

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of twenty twenty five, and surprise, surprise, they think there

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might be more to the story than CBS wanting to

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save a few bucks on a craft services. Here's the

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timeline that has everyone's conspiracy bells ringing. Monday, Colbert calls

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paramount sixteen million dollars settlement with Trump a big fat bribe. Wednesday,

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his bosses pull him into the office for what I'm

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guessing was not a surprise birthday party. Thursday, he announces

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the shows getting the acts. In May twenty twenty six.

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CBS is sticking to their story that this is purely

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a financial decision, which is corporate speak for we're not

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saying it's aliens, but we're not not saying it's aliens.

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But then Trump had to go in truth social his

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way into confirming everyone's suspicions. The man posted, I absolutely

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love that Colebar got fired. His talent was even less

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than his ratings, which is Trump trying to sound casual

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about something he definitely had nothing to do with. That's

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the equivalent of standing next to a broken vase holding

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a baseball bat and saying, wow, I wonder how that happened.

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And apparently Trump's not done. He's already setting his sights

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on Jimmy Kimmel next, saying he has even less talent

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than Colebert, which means Kimmel's probably updating his resume as

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we speak. I guess the real question is what happens

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when the people in power figure out that the best

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way to silence critics isn't to shut them up, but

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to simply turn off their microphones. If you'd like to

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keep up on this, go follow the podcast Daily Comedy News.

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Rob Schneider just rolled up to defend the Colbart cancelation

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like he's the Deuce Bigelow of political commentary, and honestly,

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this is quite the take. So Rob's basic argument in

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an opinion piece for Fox News is that Stephen Colbear

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had it coming because he was doing wafer thinly disguised

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democratic propaganda, which is a fascinating criticism coming from a

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guy whose most memorable movie moment was probably making copies.

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But hey, everyone's a media critic these days. Rob says

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Colbert excluded conservatives completely from his show, which is true

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in the same way that a fish excludes bicycles from

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the ocean. Late night comedy shows aren't exactly known for

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their balanced panel discussions. That's not their job. Their job

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is to make jokes, and apparently Colbert was really good

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at making jokes that made conservatives uncomfortable. But here's where

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Rob gets interesting. He admits that colebar calling out CBS

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for their sixteen million dollar Trump settlement took guts, so

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even rob acknowledges that there might be more to the

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story than pure financial considerations, which is like saying, sure,

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the house burned down right after the insurance salesman left,

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but I'm sure that's just a coincidence. Then Rob drops

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this bombshell. Colbear was reportedly losing the company forty million

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dollars per year despite his twenty million dollars salary, which

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means CBS was essentially paying sixty million dollars annually for

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the privilege of having someone make fun of Donald Trump.

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You hear that Calaroga Shark media bosses sixty million. I'd

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be happy with sixty thousand, you cheap bastards. Rob's real

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beef seems to be with the whole COVID vaccine situation.

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He mentions getting fired from a movie for his vaccine opinions,

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and he's clearly still upset about Colbert having dancing syringes

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on his show, which, to be fair, sounds like either

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a really weird fever dream or the worst Broadway musical

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ever conceived. The most entertaining part of Rob's piece is

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when he declares that America's flirtation with repackaged communism is dead.

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That's quite a leap from Late Night host gets canceled

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to we defeated Communism. Rob's basically treating Cole Bear's cancelation

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like the Berlin Wall coming down. Rob also mentions that

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Greg Guttfeld is superior and consistently beats Cole Bear in ratings,

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which is true but also kind of like saying McDonald's

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is superior to a fancy restaurant because more people eat there,

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different audiences, different appetites the funniest part. Rob ends by

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wishing coal Bear much success in whatever he does next

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and noting that show business is a tough business, which

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is the entertainment industry equivalent of saying bless your heart

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in the South. It sounds nice, but there's definitely some

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subtext there. Rosie o'donnald just slid into Trump's DMS like

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she's ordering coffee at a drive through, and honestly, I

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respect the directness. So here's what happened. Our beloved former

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president took to truth Social which, by the way, is

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like Twitter, but if Twitter was designed by someone who

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exclusively shops at gas stations. To celebrate Stephen Colbert getting

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the boot from CBS, Trump wrote, and I quote, I

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absolutely love that Colbert got fired. His talent was even

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less than his ratings. Now you have to appreciate Trump's

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commitment to being petty. This man could find a way

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to make someone else's birthday about him. Colbert announces his

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show is ending in May twenty twenty six, and Trump

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treats it like he personally fired him through the television.

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But here's where it gets interesting. A week before this

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whole Colbert celebration, Trump announced he was giving serious consideration

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to stripping Rosy O'Donnell up her citizenship, which is a

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wild threat to make. That's like saying you're considering taking

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away someone's library card because they returned a book late.

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So Rosie fires back on Instagram, And when I say

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fires back, I mean she came with the full arsenal.

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She opens with hay tangerine Trump, which is already chef's

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kiss territory. She's basically treating the former president like he's

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a problematic ex boyfriend who keeps texting her at two am.

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The best part of her message, she writes, You've never

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understood the role of comedy or the role of truth,

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which is accurate. Trump's relationship with comedy is like a

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fish's relationship with a bicycle. Technically they could be in

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the same room, but nobody knows why. Rosie ends her

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post with truth isn't going anywhere, neither are we. Well

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speak for yourself, Rosie, I'm done for the day. Portions

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of today's show were made with the help of Ai