Following the final episode of CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Thursday night, MS NOW’s Morning Joe lavished praise upon the disgraced host Stephen Colbert. Despite the cancellation announcement going out in July of 2025, The Late Show was permitted to run for almost another year before finally keeling over on May 21, and afterwards, its only mourners were the legacy media.After playing a cringe-worthy portion of the final Late Show episode, Morning Joe hosts Mika Brzezinski, Jonathan Lemire, and Willie Geist, who were filling in for Joe Scarborough, welcomed author and historian Jon Meacham, columnist and former Washington Post associate editor Eugene Robinson, and Puck News journalist and podcaster Matthew Belloni on air to simp over Stephen Colbert.“Stephen is an architect of the culture,” Meacham began the Colbert worship service that Morning Joe and many other mainstream outlets had devolved into after The Late Show officially ended. He compared Colbert to musician Paul McCartney, the special guest on the series finale, suggesting the show was “a hinge in the cultural life of the country and of the West,” because Colbert happened to tape from the same Ed Sullivan Theater that The Beatles played at in 1964.Moreover, Meacham claimed that Colbert had an “enormous audience,” despite the fact that The Late Show was losing tens of millions of dollars every year and not getting enough views to justify the massive cost, which he ignored.Despite the utter failure of Stephen Colbert and his show, Meacham still lamented his loss from the airwaves:The liberal elitist media loves to harp on Colbert’s cancellation as an issue of politics and free speech. Immediately following Meacham’s remarks, Brzezinski suggested exactly that:Robinson then touted Colbert as “such an amazing” and “talented man,” and The Late Show as “a touchstone in our cultural life,” before Lemire brought it back to politics:Of course, President Trump, though he criticized Colbert and other media figures, held no real power over CBS’s hosts, and the decision to terminate The Late Show was much more financial than political. Belloni acknowledged this point, but then continued to speculate about Trump’s involvement:According to the panelists of Morning Joe, everything must be Trump’s fault, no matter the external circumstances.The transcript is below. Click “expand” to read.
MS NOW’s Morning JoeMay 22, 20266:06:20
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