CBS announced on Thursday it plans to end “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” in May 2026, citing a “financial decision.”

The network said the show would end in May, when host Stephen Colbert’s current contract expires. Colbert announced the news to the audience attending the taping for Thursday night’s show, and posted the message on social media.

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Stephen Colbert riffed Paramount Global’s $16 million settlement of Donald Trump’s lawsuit, calling the payment a “big fat bribe” and joking about the prospects that new owner Skydance will try pressure him to back off from humor directed at the president.

Colbert followed “The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart’s attack of the deal one week earlier. Stewart works for Comedy Central, also owned by Paramount, making the two comics the most visible internal critics of the $16 million settlement that was announced on July 1.