"Fuck off!": These are the reactions to Stephen Colbert's cancellation.

Barcelona"To those corporations, advertisers, universities, and law firms who still think kowtowing to Trump will save them, I have one thing to say: Fuck you!" The late show with Stephen Colbert, a decision announced a week ago. As if their position wasn't clear enough, a gospel heartbeat kept repeating "Fuck us!" The comedians and talk show hosts late shows They have been at war with Trump for some time, but Paramount's yielding to the US president's judicial pressure has raised the temperature. The Daily ShowStewart's show, "Colbert," airs on Comedy Central, which is owned by the very media group currently under fire. "This is not the time to give in. I'm not giving in. I'm not going anywhere... I think!" the comedian concluded, raising the question of whether Colbert's show is just the first of many to succumb to Trumpist harassment.

Paramount has assured that the closure of The late show It is due to financial reasons. Beyond the fact that the format of the late show I didn't have a good time, the group arrived to a $16 million settlement with Trump to stop his lawsuit against the program 60 minutes He doesn't project the best of images. Over the past few days, a host of American comics and actors have taken advantage of the agreement to criticize Paramount and support Colbert, who, since learning of the show's cancellation, has been delivering some of the most heartbreaking and direct monologues against Trump in recent years. Yeah The late show "What's the most watched thing on the airwaves? It's kind of confusing," he said on the show Monday. Colbert continued the segment by referencing reports that Paramount lost $40 million to $50 million on the show. "$40 million is a very high number. I can understand why we lost $24 million, but how could Paramount have lost the other $16 million? Oh, I see," he said, alluding to the agreement between Trump and the group to stop the litigation over the interview. 60 minutes on Kamala Harris.

Like Stewart, the ousted host has also joined the chant of "Fuck off," in his case directed at Donald Trump and the post on Truth Social in which he expressed his joy at the cancellation. "I love that Colbert got fired. His talent is even lower than his ratings," wrote the US president. On Monday, during the opening monologue of The late showColbert read Trump's post and, feigning outrage, responded, "How dare you, sir? A man with no talent could compose the following witty skit? 'Fuck you.'" On the screen, Colbert's face appeared framed with the message "Chamber of Eloquence."

Comrades to the rescue

Colbert and the workers of The late show have received support from a good portion of the US television industry, as well as a battalion of comics, some of them direct rivals of the show. On Monday, after the explosive monologue, many of them appeared on the set to support him by participating in a comedy gag. The segment began with musicians Lin-Manuel Miranda, one of Broadway's most successful creators, and Weird Al Yankovic playing the song Long live life by Coldplay. In a nod to the kiss cam from the concert of the British band that revealed the infidelity of businessman Andy ByronThe camera focused on the show's audience, followed by appearances by journalist Anderson Cooper and hosts Andy Cohen, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, John Oliver, and Jon Stewart. The cartoon Trump quickly hid when he saw the camera focused on him.

Beyond the comics' presence on set, Colbert has received support from many well-known personalities through social media, including Stephen King, Jamie Lee Curtis, John Cusack, and Ben Stiller. "Have they canceled Colbert? Tell me it's a joke," the author of Misery. For his part, Curtis said it was "sad" news and further evidence that Trump "is trying to silence people." Jimmy Kimmel, host of the late show ABC's host, also expressed his anger at the cancellation: "I love you, Stephen. Fuck you, CBS!" And David Letterman, who hosted the show before Colbert, also made his anger known with a 20-minute video in which he took a swipe at the network: "You can't spell CBS without saying BS," he said, referring to the common abbreviation for the word. bullshit, that is, bull shit in literal translation, which is usually applied to the most botched lies. South Park, which airs on Comedy Central, has added to the criticism of Paramount and Donald Trump. In its twenty-seventh season premiere, the animated series shows the US president sharing a bed with Satan and smiling and nodding as he reads headlines linking him to the cancellation of Colbert and the lawsuit against Paramount. At one point, Trump is even seen talking to his micropenis. The episode's plot centers on Cartman, heartbroken because Trump has withdrawn funding for NPR, the American public radio station he listens to because he likes to laugh at his character. woke"The government can't cancel a program. I mean, what's the next program they're going to cancel?" the character asks angrily. Criticism of South Park It's especially heartbreaking because the series' creators just signed a deal with Paramount, which will pay them $1.25 billion for five more years of the animated series. late show Colbert's. Right at the entrance of the theater is where actress Molly Gordon (The Bear) with a t-shirt with the printed message "I love Late show with Stephen Colberta few hours before being one of the guests on Wednesday's broadcast.