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In a motion to longtime Late Show host Stephen Colbert, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon joins Jimmy Kimmel successful nan determination to aerial a repetition connected Thursday, May 21, nan nighttime of Colbert‘s last CBS late-night show.
The Tonight Show will aerial a caller section connected Friday, May 22, featuring Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal, and philharmonic impermanent Maluma.
Kimmel announced Monday that ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! would tally a repetition section during Colbert’s May 21 finale “out of deference to Colbert’s sendoff,” per LateNighter.
On Monday night, Colbert hosted chap late-night hosts Fallon, Kimmel, Seth Meyers and John Oliver (aka nan self-named Strike Force Five), who paid tribute to Colbert’s show, successful a reunion that featured tons of bully wishes and good-natured jibes.
CBS announced successful a shocking announcement successful July 2025, that it was ending The Late Show franchise successful 2026. At nan clip CBS said it was “purely a financial determination against a challenging backdrop successful precocious night” and “is not related successful immoderate measurement to nan show’s performance, contented aliases different matters happening astatine Paramount.” The “other matters” apt were CBS’ genitor institution Paramount’s efforts to complete a merger pinch David Ellison-owned Skydance.
The cancellation besides coincides with Colbert’s statement coming up astatine nan extremity of 2026, and it came days aft Colbert, a predominant professional of Donald Trump, called Paramount Global’s $16M colony of Trump’s lawsuit a “big fat bribe.”
From Universal Television, a section of Universal Studio Group and Broadway Video, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon is executive produced by Lorne Michaels and produced by Chris Miller and Gerard Bradford. Miller is the showrunner.
The Tonight Show tapes earlier a unrecorded workplace assemblage from Studio 6B successful 30 Rockefeller Center and airs astatine 11:35 p.m. ET/PT connected NBC and streams nan adjacent time connected Peacock.
