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Thursday, July 24, 2025

Josh Johnson Is a 'Daily Show' Ratings Phenom

LateNighter

Thursday July 24, 2025

Josh Johnson's Daily Show Hosting Debut Draws Year's Largest Audience in the Demo

Josh Johnson
First on LateNighter:Johnson’s Daily Show outranked each of the late-night shows we track among younger viewers Tuesday night to deliver the best demo performance for The Daily Show since September 10, 2024,

Jimmy Fallon Replies to Donald Trump's Newest Jabs at Him in Song

Jimmy Fallon Replies to Donald Trump's Newest Jabs at Him In Song
Jimmy Fallon is firing back at Donald Trump following the President's attack on the late-night host earlier this week.

Netflix Reports Underwhelming Viewership for Everybody's Live With John Mulaney

Everybody's Live with John Mulaney
For all the media attention surrounding Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney, viewers didn’t exactly show up in droves.

Report: CBS Cancelled Colbert to Ensure 'Proper Sendoff' Ahead of Skydance Merger

Stephen Colbert
CBS didn’t wait for Skydance to cancel Colbert—they did it themselves, sources tell The Ankler, to protect his exit.

Byron Allen's Comics Unleashed Taping 130+ Fresh Episodes for New CBS Run

Byron Allen's Comics Unleashed Taping 130+ Fresh Episodes for New CBS Run
Byron Allen’s Comics Unleashed is headed back into production for its new nightly 12:30am run on CBS.

CBS Didn't Just Cancel Colbert. It Canceled a Cultural Institution.

CBS Didn't Just Cancel Colbert. It Canceled a Cultural Institution.
Bill Carter writes: CBS’s decision to cancel The Late Show ends a 30-year experiment in challenging the late-night status quo.

Report: Stephen Colbert's Manager Sat on Cancellation News for Weeks

Stephen Colbert
In a new report, The Ankler's Lesley Goldberg writes that Stephen Colbert didn’t know his show had been canceled until more than two weeks after CBS made the call—because his manager kept the news from him while he was on vacation.

Weds Monologues: Trump's in the Epstein Files

Stephen Colbert
If Stephen Colbert and his late-night cohort seemed to have an extra spring in their steps last night, it's not for nothing. Here's our Wednesday night monologue roundup.

Michael Kosta Slams Colbert Cancellation: 'They're Kowtowing to Trump'

Miachel Kosta
Another Daily Show host is weighing in on CBS's cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert—and he’s not holding back.

Around the web:

NYC ‘Save Colbert’ Rally Touts Petition Signed by 250,000
The Guardian reports that protesters calling on CBS to reverse The Late Show‘s cancellation marched ten boxes of signed petitions from Colbert’s Ed Sullivan Theater to Paramount’s Times Square headquarters Wednesday afternoon.

Elizabeth Warren Pens Op-Ed Questioning Motives Behind Colbert Cancellation
In a guest column for Variety, the Massachusetts senator (and 15-time Colbert guest) writes, “it is a threat to all of us that the top late-night show in the country may have been canceled in order to curry favor with a wannabe king.”
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