Stephen Colbert is nearing the final stretch of his Late Show hosting tenure at CBS, with the previously canceled talk show staple set to conclude in May, and he hasn’t exactly spoken glowingly about his home network in the time since. The bad blood runneth over once more on Monday evening, as Colbert went against his superiors’ wishes by ripping into both them and the FCC over not allowing him to air an interview due to a potential rule change regarding equal opportunity partisanship for late night guests.
Seemingly as proof of his prior "flaming toboggan ride" comments, The Late Show’s President’s Day episode was also affected by BTS challenges. The ep featured solo marquee guest Jennifer Garner promoting Season 2 of her Apple TV+ drama The Last Thing She Told Me, but before she took the stage, Stephen Colbert had thoughts to share. Taking a few minutes to address the fact that the episode was also meant to feature an interview with Texas state representative James Talarico, Colbert said he was flat-out forbidden from showing it to his broadcast audience. Here’s how the host started his incensed mini-segment:
