CBS reveals alternative for “The Late Present With Stephen Colbert”

As The Late Show With Stephen Colbert nears its finish, CBS is getting ready for its successor.

On Could 22, the day after Stephen Colbert says goodbye to the community after 11 years, Comics Unleashed With Byron Allen will take over the community's 11:35 p.m. timeslot. The rountable speak present might be adopted by one other Allen-produced collection, the comedy recreation present Humorous You Ought to Ask, at 12:35 a.m.

"I created and launched Comics Unleashed 20 years in the past so my fellow comedians may have a platform to do what all of us love — make folks giggle," Allen shared in a press release. "I really respect CBS' confidence in me by selecting up our two-hour comedy block of Comics Unleashed and Humorous You Ought to Ask, as a result of the world can by no means have sufficient laughter."

Hosted by Allen, Comics Unleashed premiered in syndication in September 2006; comedians featured on the collection embrace Tiffany Haddish, Cedric the Entertainer, Gabriel Iglesias, and Nate Bargatze. Humorous You Ought to Ask is hosted by Jon Kelley and premiered in September 2017.

Comics Unleashed got here to CBS for a restricted run from 2023 to 2024 to fill time after the tip of The Late Late Present with James Corden, throughout which it aired reruns and never-before-seen episodes all produced previous to 2023. It returned to CBS — and producing new episodes — for the 2025-2026 season to take over what had been Corden's alternative, After Midnight With Taylor Tomlinson.

Allen's association with CBS is a novel one: The Hollywood Reporternotes that he's shopping for airtime from the community; in alternate, his firm Allen Media Group will get to promote any accessible promoting spots throughout Comics Unleashed and Humorous You Ought to Ask.

CBS introduced final July that the Late Show franchise would end after greater than three a long time, citing the choice as "purely a monetary" one.

"The Late Present With Stephen Colbert will finish its historic run in Could 2026 on the finish of the published season," CBS stated in a press release. "We take into account Stephen Colbert irreplaceable and can retire The Late Present franchise at the moment. We’re proud that Stephen known as CBS house. He and the published might be remembered within the pantheon of greats that graced late evening tv."

The assertion continued, "That is purely a monetary choice towards a difficult backdrop in late evening. It isn’t associated in any approach to the present's efficiency, content material or different issues occurring at Paramount."

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When Colbert addressed the cancellation throughout a taping on the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York, he advised the audibly upset viewers that he shared their emotions, saying "It's not simply the tip of our present, nevertheless it's the tip of The Late Present on CBS. I'm not being changed. That is all simply going away."

"We get to do that present for one another, day-after-day, all day, and I've had the pleasure and the duty of sharing what we do day-after-day with you in entrance of this digital camera for the final 10 years," he added.

"Let me let you know, it’s a unbelievable job," Colbert stated. "I want any person else was getting it. And it's a job that I'm trying ahead to doing with this normal gang of idiots for one more 10 months. It's going to be enjoyable."

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