{"id":23111,"date":"2026-05-22T09:22:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T09:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/colbert-eschews-politics-during-final-late-show-on-cbs\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T09:22:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T09:22:18","slug":"colbert-eschews-politics-during-final-late-show-on-cbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/colbert-eschews-politics-during-final-late-show-on-cbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Colbert eschews politics during final &#8216;Late Show&#8217; on CBS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Colbert largely steered clear of politics or direct criticism of President Trump during his final broadcast of &#8220;The Late Show&#8221; on Thursday night. Colbert, who repeatedly thanked his staff and viewership for supporting him during his 11 years on CBS, read headlines of the day as part of his opening monologue but cracked light-hearted&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/media\/5890746-colbert-late-show-finale\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Colbert largely steered clear of politics or direct criticism of President Trump during his final broadcast of &#8220;The Late Show&#8221; on Thursday night. Colbert, who repeatedly thanked his staff and viewership for supporting him during his 11 years on CBS, read headlines of the day as part of his opening monologue but cracked light-hearted&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}