Colbert Reportedly ‘Heartbroken’ After CBS Firing: ‘This Wasn’t Just a Job – It Was His Identity’
Cue the world’s tiniest violin.
According to Naughty but Nice, a Substack account run by entertainment-gossip journalist Rob Shuter, longtime late-night fixture Stephen Colbert has felt “heartbroken” since the final episode of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” aired on May 21.
“This wasn’t just a job — it was his identity,” a source told Shuter. “Stephen poured everything into that show. Losing it has hit him hard.”
Colbert reportedly has kept to himself in recent weeks. He even appeared glum at the Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce wedding over the weekend, Shuter reported.
“He’s always been the one holding everyone else together,” a second source told Shuter. “Now he’s the one who needs time. He’s stepped away to figure out what comes next.”
In July 2025, amid serious financial losses, CBS announced Colbert’s show would not be returning after its season ended this year, bringing to a close a run that started in 2015.
The comedian-turned-establishment-propagandist then spent the next 10 months doing what he had done for a decade: Attacking President Donald Trump.
In fact, even some liberals viewed the months-long, Trump-hating farewell tour as tiresome.
The president, however, got the last laugh.