Crown David Letterman the king of shade. Letterman posted a video and a quip this week, seemingly in response to news that CBS would be ending “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” in May 2026.

Colbert called it an “insane thing” to put on social media. “If you or I put up an AI video depicting the violent arrest of a former president, we would get a free ride in a windowless van to FBI headquarters, where they would put us to work redacting Trump’s name from the Epstein file,” Colbert said. And that may not even be the worst of it.

As host of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” the comedian has been successful, receiving critical praise and leading the program to regularly becoming the top-rated late-night show, outpacing his younger rivals Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel — albeit against the backdrop of what Reuters termed “late-night TV’s fade-out.

Colbert’s late show on CBS has never won a TV Academy prize. The president could well now have changed that. The video plays like a cave painting from the Neolithic era or, even more distantly, from when late-night television still mattered: Stephen Colbert sits in the host chair and makes amends with Donald Trump.

Stephen Colbert is at the center of a conspiracy theory. It was born last week, when news broke of CBS canceling Colbert's late-night talk show. The

David Letterman is throwing some subtle shade at his former network in the wake of its decision to cancel 'The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.'

Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, Jon Stewart and John Oliver joined Weird Al Yankovic and Lin-Manuel Miranda to support Stephen Colbert after 'The Late Show's' cancellation by appearing in a segment inspired by the Coldplay kiss-cam incident.

Stephen Colbert announced "The Late Show" was cancelled three nights after revealing his summer mustache on air. Coincidence?