Jon Stewart Goes On Unhinged F-Bomb Laced Rant About Colbert Cancellation

Comedy Central host Jon Stewart delivered an F-bomb loaded six-minute diatribe on Monday night in his first show since CBS cancelled “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.”

CBS announced on July 17 that Colbert’s show would end in May 2026, citing a lack of profitability and adding that the show itself would be retired at that time. Stewart claimed during “The Daily Show” that “fear and pre-compliance” are the real motivations behind the decision of Paramount to end the program.

“Look, I understand the corporate fear. I understand the fear that you and your advertisers have with eight billion dollars at stake, but understand this, truly: the shows that you now seek to cancel, censor and control, a not insignificant portion of that eight billion value came from those fucking shows,” Stewart claimed to cheers and applause from the in-studio audience. “That’s what made you that money: shows that say something, shows that take a stand, shows that are unafraid. And believe me, this is not ‘We speak truth to power.’ We don’t. We speak opinions to television cameras. But we try. We fucking try, every night.”

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“And if you believe, as corporations or as networks, you can make yourselves so innocuous that you can serve a gruel so flavorless that you will never again be on the boy king’s radar, a) why will anyone watch you? And you are fucking wrong!” Stewart continued. “It’s just true! Do you want to know how impossible it is to stay on Lord Farquad’s good side?”

Stewart then played a news report about President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and its owner, Rupert Murdoch, over an article that claimed Trump sent disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein a bawdy letter celebrating his birthday.