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Terry Gross, the host of NPR’s longrunning radio series Fresh Air, has won the Peabody’s Institutional Award, an honor presented by Stephen Colbert. Described by Colbert as “part conversationalist, part therapist and part oral historian” (watch the video above), Gross, along with the Fresh Air team, were presented the…

Bob Bakish, CEO of Paramount Global, has canceled a scheduled appearance at a media conference this afternoon due to illness. The chief executive had been slated for an afternoon Q&A keynote session at J.P. Morgan's 47th Annual Global Technology, Media and Communications Conference in Boston. The event at the Westin…

CBS — bringing the rest of Paramount with it — is back at its longtime upfront home, Carnegie Hall, and the network’s late-night host Stephen Colbert is back onstage ribbing his employer. “The moment my bosses at Paramount asked me to introduce this upfront, I leapt at the chance… to read my contract and find out that…

Stephen Colbert is back. After cancelling last week’s shows due to the host experiencing “symptoms consistent with a recurrence of Covid”, CBS announced the full return of Colbert to The Late Show. “I’m footloose and Covid free! See you tomorrow,” Colbert wrote from his personal Twitter feed. Last week’s cancellation…

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is going dark again this week after its host was seemingly struck by another bout of Covid. The CBS show announced it would "not be taping new episodes until further notice" saying that Colbert is "experiencing symptoms consistent with a recurrence of Covid". "Out of an abundance of…

Tonight on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert the educational culture wars are on his mind and Florida (which the host calls “America’s mullet”) is ground zero for all of it.  Problems have arisen in the south and midwest when it comes to critical race theory and any teaching that focuses on marginalized communities…

Tonight on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert  the host list the reasons why Dr. Oz may not be a good candidate for a the U.S. Senate after all.  Over the weekend Donald Trump discussed his Senate endorsement of former talk show host Dr. Mehmet Oz for which Colbert called the former President, "The douche of Hazard,"…

Late night show hosts have weighed in on the stunning moment when Will Smith smacked comedian and Oscar presenter Chris Rock across the face on national television over a joke about Smith's wife Jada Pinkett Smith. They seem to generally agree that Will Smith should have chosen a different way to express his anger…

It was only a matter of time before celebrity pickleball became a TV thing, and here we are. Stephen Colbert’s Spartina, Funny or Die and CBS Studios are lobbing up Pickled, a two-hour primetime special to air on CBS and stream on Paramount+ this year. The all-the-rage sport will get its close-up with a tournament of…

For the past seven years, Chris Licht's favorite comic has been Stephen Colbert. As the new chairman of CNN, Licht's focus has instantly shifted to the brilliant ex-comic from Ukraine named Volodymyr Zelensky, whose heroics are the story of the hour. "Give CNN one great news story and all my network's problems will…

On The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, it’s Valentine’s day, so of course he talks about how Americans have lost their sexual mojo. Quoting CNN Health, Colbert states that Americans are at a 30-year low for sexual activity. Meaning Americans are less likely to have sex, get partnered up, or get married. In typical…

EXCLUSIVE: Comedy Central is launching the first new original series under ViacomCBS network’s current push in adult animation. Fairview, executive produced by Stephen Colbert and the team behind Paramount+'s Emmy-nominated Tooning Out the News and Showtime's Our Cartoon President, will debut Feb. 9 at 8:30 pm…