{"id":18098,"date":"2026-05-29T21:03:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T21:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=18098"},"modified":"2026-05-29T21:03:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T21:03:21","slug":"stephen-colbert-slammed-cbs-in-his-final-moments-and-the-network-could-be-headed-for-major-financial-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=18098","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert Slammed CBS in His Final Moments \u2014 And the Network Could Be Headed for Major Financial Trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Colbert\u2019s final\u00a0<em>Late Show<\/em>\u00a0reportedly ended with a sharp, unscripted jab at CBS, with his remark\u2014\u201cOh no, I hope this does not cost CBS any money\u201d\u2014widely seen as a criticism of the network\u2019s handling of his exit. The moment sparked debate about tensions behind the scenes and highlighted the growing divide between network control and powerful on-air personalities. Fans interpreted it as a bold, symbolic farewell rather than a standard goodbye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Stephen Colbert\u2019s final\u00a0Late Show\u00a0reportedly ended with a sharp, unscripted jab at CBS, with his remark\u2014\u201cOh no, I hope this does not cost CBS any money\u201d\u2014widely <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=18098\" title=\"Stephen Colbert Slammed CBS in His Final Moments \u2014 And the Network Could Be Headed for Major Financial Trouble\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18099,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18100,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18098\/revisions\/18100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}