Stephen Colbert reveals date of his final Late Show episode: Not thrilled with it

Soon-to-be former late-night host Stephen Colbert is set to give his final curtain call in just over four months — and he’s “not thrilled about it.”Colbert, 61, revealed Wednesday that the last episode of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” will air on May 21, ending an 11-year run on CBS.“It feels real,” he said during an appearance on “Late Night with Seth Meyers.

“Now there’s four months left and I, you know, the shows are fun to do, but what I really love is the people I do it with.”“It feels real now.I’m not thrilled with it,” he said, teasing that he plans on doing “something else together” with his team after the show’s cancellation.In July, CBS had announced that the “Late Show,” which first aired with David Letterman in 1993, would be shut down after the 2025-2026 broadcast schedule.Colbert, who replaced Letterman in 2015, has not taken kindly to his highly publicized departure.“You can do comedy in a lot of different places.

There’s no place like the Ed Sullivan Theater, but it’s really the people.Thats what I care about, that’s really what I’m going to miss more than anything.”CBS said it was a “financial decision” to cancel the long-running show, as under Colbert, “The Late Show” lost.“Colbert loses $40 million to $50 million a year, so (co-CEO) George Cheeks just decided to pull the plug,” a source told The Post’s Charles Gasparino.In Quarter 4 TV ratings, “The Late Show” led all late-night talk shows with 2.69 million total viewers over 37 shows, The Late Nighter reported.Despite a 5 percent drop in viewership over the third quarter when Colbert saw a week-long spike after the announcement, “The Late Show” remained at the top in viewership in all late-night show broadcasts, ahead of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”After his cancellation was announced, “The Late Show” was nominated and won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Series, Colbert’s first while leading the sh...