What Will Stephen Colbert Do After ‘Late Show’ Ends? He have options

IT’s The Old – and Not Ver Funny – Joke: WHERE DOES A 1,000-POUND GORilla Sit?

Answer: WHEREVER HE WANTS.

The Late Show Host Stephen Colbert May Not Quite Be The 1,000-POUund Gorilla of the Modern Interview Format (that would be joe rogan), but he cereinly carries a lot of weight. WHEN YOU’RE The HIGHEST-RATED LATE-NIGHT HOST ON BROADCAST TELEVision and One of the most recognizable people in media, Plus have a loyal audience… You have a significant Value in the Marketplace, Even If CBS is Showing You The Door.

Colbert May Not Be Able to Sit AnyWhere He Wants WHEN HIS Series Ends, But He’s Definitely Going to Have A FEW Seats to Choose from.

In some Sense, The 61-Iear-Old’s Relative Lack of Future-Proofing Preparedness for This Upheaval Is His Own Fault. Despite Coming to CBS from the Once-Edge Realm of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show d His Own The Colbert ReportThe Host’s Tenure on BroadCast Has Been Marked by his Embrace of a Highly Traditional Talk Show Format. On NBC, Jimmy Fallon Has Long Produced Digital Shorts, Making Potentilly Viral Content for Online USers. On ABC, Jimmy Kimmel Made HimSelf Into A Network Utility Player – Hosting Awards Shows, Game Shows and Delvering A Set Each Year at the New York Upfronts. Conan o’brien-having previoously been froma from a broadCast Talk Show-Wisely and Pre-emptively launched his Hit Podcast Three Years Before Tbs Pulled The Plug In21.

Colbert – and this isn’t meant as a slight – seized to simply enjoy doing the job as a talk show host in the Studio every night to the best his abness. Given that his rats were were better than his rivals, who wound he have done any things? One Could Easily Imagine Colbert Being Reassured by Network Executives Over The Years: Just Keep Doing What You’re Doing. After all, if you’re constently vinning your time, and staying out of trouble, that’s all you’ve hardly to do text… Well, Since the Dawn of Television. YOUR BUSINESS HAS A REAL PROBLEM IF YOU CAN’T WIN BY WINNING (The New York Times Reports Ad Revenue for Late Night Has Droped by Half in the Last Seven Years and, Last Month, BroadCast Fell Bell 20 Percent of All TV Viewing for First Time).

With CBS Deciding to Cancel The Late Show – Not Ditch the Show’s Highly Paid Current Host, But Retire The Format – The Network Has Basical UnderCut the Speeches that All Broadcasts and ad sales executies give each. Strong, that is your still relevant and still matters. Colbert Arguable Has Better Options than the Network Giving Him The Boot. He is a talent and talent can Draw an Audience. WHILE CBS NOW HAS… WHAT? A hole that needs to be filled.

SO WHAT HAPPENS NOW? Not at CBS, But For Colbert?

David Letterman Launched An Elevated Interview Show on Netflix. Jon Stewart Did His Own Twist On The Daily Show For Apple TV+ and Launcled A Podcast Before Returning To The Daily Show. And O’Brien not only launched a podcast, but a whole podcast Network, whoh he sol to siriusxm for a tidy $ 150 Million, and on the Side Makes a travel show.

The Easiest Option for Colbert Wound Be IF Another Company-Perhaps a Deep-Poked Streamer-Wants to Pay Him to Keep Doing Something Similar to What HIST HISTHING ALYING FORA. A Night. The Bigger Hurdle, One Imagines, Is Finding A Company That’s Both Down for This and Doesn’s to bend the knee, not just cbs parent paramount).

Another Road is if Colbert Decides to Launch His Own Talk or InterView Show – WHETHER A PODCAST OR ON YOUTUBE. The AVERAGE AGE OF A COLBERT VIEVER IS 68, WHICH PERHAPS SAYS more about CBS ‘AUDIENCE COLBERT’S COLBERT’S, Buting IT ALSO MASES IT A BIT TOUGER TOCLING WEHIN COLBERT. and Subscribe Button ”on YouTube Alongside Mrbeast.

“My Big Theisis here is that what kind of you’re seeing is the slight dESTRUCTION OF THE TRADATIONAL HOLLYWOOD PIPELINE, AND YOU’RE YOU’RE GOING to see A Lot Less Big Shots, and a Lot More Individuals, the a. Showrunner for NBC’s Tonight Showand host of the Ai for humans Podcast, told Thr. “DISTRIBUTION IS EASY NOW. THAT’S The THAT’S REALLY INTERESTING. WHAT’S HARD IS ATTENTION. AND THING THAT COLBERT AND that Team Still DO A GREAT JOB OF IS COMMANDING ATTENTION.”

There’s Also The Unforeseeble Possibility that Colbert Might Get Sigrated Onto Some Entirely New Format Somewhere and Rise, Phoenix-Like, AS Part of a Brand New Thing. While he might be the most traditional of the Broadcast Hosts, in some respects, the man has been cerearinly Done Majoor Pivots Before. The Colbert ReportAfter All, Was Colbert Pretending to Be Antirely Different Person.

The Wild-Card Outcome is that Colbert Decides-After Rolling Out Trump Jokes for A Decade-to get in the Political Game HimSelf. While Colbert Lives in New Jersey, He’s from South Carolina, and One of the State Seate Seats is Open Next Year. Colbert Has Joked About the Idea of Running for Office Over The Years, But Wen Asked Directly About Whtcher He’d Be Interared, He Tends to DEFLECT The QUESTION. Back in 2007, WHEN LARRY King Asked if He’d Ever Considering Running for President, Colbert Replied, “Obviously, Every Boy Has Thought of It. And Who You Look at A Field [of candidates] Like this, you know… ”

Finally, There’s An Option that’s Perhaps Even Less Likely than Colbert Running for Office: That HE Retires and Stays Retrie. The Thing About BroadCast Late-Night Hosts is All Have Made More More of Enough Money to Never Work Again, and Yet they Still Get Luld Back Into. They rarely quit a show, and, if pushed out, they eventual gt another Similar Gig. Even Letterman – Who Sems the sort of man who would retire – Only Managed to Stay Home for Less Thran Three Years Beurs Before Poping Back Up on Netflix. There is, Perhaps, Something About of Person Who Is Well Suitted For The Late-Night Grind that Is Also The Type of Person Who Doesn’t Ever Want to Entirely Walk.

You Know Who Didn’t Come Back, However? Johnny Carson. The tonight Show Host-Generally Considered Greatest Late-Night Host Ever-Retired in 1992 and Never Hosted Again. As he told Esquire in 2002, “You’ve Got to Know Who to Get The Hell Off The Stage.”

But if SPotify Was around in the ’90s and Told Carson HE COULD EARN $ 30 Million by Working from Home, Interviewsiewing WHOMEVERH HE WANTED AND COURld Say Whane.