Stephen Colbert has no plans to dwell on the cancellation of The Late Show. Instead, he is looking forward to celebrating a major family milestone immediately after Thursday's taping.
The late-night host, 62, who kicked off his final week of The Late Show on Monday, revealed in a new interview that his brother Tommy is getting married on Saturday. After the last episode — which he said would be attended by all his siblings and their spouses — “we’re all getting on the train the next day and going down to [Washington] D.C.,” Colbert told People. “The next day, the focus is not on me,” he said. “The focus is on my brother — so much better.”
Colbert added that they will all “get drunk” and “sing.” “We all think we have good voices,” he joked. “That’s the great danger of our family. Especially the men. We really think we have good voices. We’ll get drunk and sing on the dance floor. It’ll be great.”
The Emmy-winning comedian also highlighted another family milestone: his youngest son, John, recently turned in his senior thesis before graduating Monday from Yale University. Colbert has three adult children — daughter Madeleine and two sons, Peter and John — with his wife, producer Evelyn, whom he has been married to since 1993.
CBS’s long-running Late Show franchise comes to an end Thursday after 33 years. It originated in 1993 with David Letterman, who later passed the torch to Colbert in 2015. The network announced the cancellation last July, describing Colbert as “irreplaceable” and citing a “financial decision.” However, because the sudden cancellation came days after Colbert criticized the network’s parent company, Paramount, for reaching a $16 million settlement with President Donald Trump over accusations that its newsmagazine series 60 Minutes deceptively edited a 2024 interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris, numerous politicians and celebrities have suggested that it was politically motivated.
Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren, a frequent Colbert guest, questioned CBS’s motives, demanding that “America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.” “CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery,” she suggested on X, alongside a clip of Colbert’s show in which he denounced Paramount’s settlement. “As someone who’s always been a proud employee of this network, I am offended. And I don’t know if anything will ever repair my trust in this company,” the host said in the segment, quipping, “but just taking a stab at it, I’d say $16 million would help.”
The final episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert airs Thursday at 11:35 p.m. ET on CBS.
