Late-night hosts including Jon Stewart and Jimmy Fallon joined Colbert in solidarity. “I’m going to go ahead and say it,” he quipped: “Cancel culture has gone too far.”

Jon Stewart pulled no punches Monday over CBS’s cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s late-night show. During Monday night’s broadcast of “The Daily Show,” Stewart’s first since Colbert on Thursday shared that “The Late Show” would not return beyond May 2026,

Adam Sandler, Anderson Cooper, Jon Stewart and Jimmy Fallon were among those who made surprise appearances on Monday's episode after CBS announced that the late-night show would be ending in May 2026.