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Jimmy Kimmel urges viewers to stop watching CBS after Colbert finale

tvMay 22, 2026227,786

Jimmy Kimmel told his ABC audience to stop watching CBS, declaring "Don't ever watch it again," after Stephen Colbert's final Late Show aired this week. Kimmel delivered the remark during his program's coverage of Colbert's farewell and joined other late-night hosts in addressing Colbert's exit. Hosts tied the finale to broader political critiques, including Donald Trump's latest grift. Kimmel's on-air call turns a network transition into a public signal that could influence where viewers choose to watch late-night TV.

Mike Walker
@newnarrative.bsky.social

Jimmy Kimmel Urges Viewers to Never Watch CBS Again After Colbert Finale Airs www.mediaite.com/media/tv/jim...

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Kyre Adept, PhD47

Damned straight. CBS can go straight to hell for all I care… and Paramount with them. What a bunch of useless wankers!

Rainwalker44

We watch all these guys on YouTube. Since the news of the cancellation broke, I don’t click on anything from CBS on YouTube except Colbert. Never. Suck it, Weiss.

Dr. Ditch 🇺🇸🌍💙✊🏾🇨🇦🇲🇽24

They are done… Canceled… App… GONE Subscription… GONE Bookmarks GONE CBS….

Estefano22

And Paramount. Thank you Jimmy. And Stephen, and Seth and John, and even Fallon.

DevonGreen20

Definitely my plan. I like our local news but I’ll find another one.

Ken13

CBS has rejected its own great history as a news organization and the standards that created it. Best act wud be a restsart w/ new owners committed to fair and accurate journalism like Walter Cronkite and other icons practiced. First step --fire Weiss (Trump ass kisser)

Karl11

If we get through this, make it to the end of horror story with a happy or bittersweet, we gotta replace Trump's and MAGa's poisonous lies with the truth.

Shut_this_shit_down_people9

Done! CBS/Paramount/Prime, the list goes on and on. Small sacrifices to send billionaires and their pet rat back to the gutter where they belong. Shut this shit down people!!!

Resistance Daily Mission7

Never will. There is nothing CBS can do to watch their propaganda network, ever. The only thing I did watch was Colbert, and I watched that on YT. FCBS.

Montana Hippy6

Nobody watches it now. 🤷🤦

Jeri Westerson6

At the end of the show for like two minutes they should just show a test pattern.

factsonly007.bsky.social5

CBS is full on a nazi network now! Hard pass forever. Dead to me.

Mary Kilgallen5

I am a huge Jeopardy fan but I will no longer watch it after tonight.

Zombie_Chic5

I had already decided this long ago before Kimmel mentioned it. I dropped paramount + and Colbert was the only reason I watched that channel.

Moriah4

Jimmy Kimmel is one of the most powerful voices defending democracy and shining a light on the ugliness being perpetrated by Trump and his cretins. Hopefully, ABC won’t fall victim to Dictator Donnie’s demands to fire Jimmy.

Monique4

I did it. You can too! Let's show solidarity!

Peter the Baffled4

A lot of us are way ahead of him in that regard.

Chemayo4

Wish Star Trek could be bought out my a different media firm. That’s why I watch CBS.

kristapr.bsky.social4

Let's hit CBS in their pocket books! I'll ask my provider to delete CBS from my watching options!

bkmillernm.bsky.social4

I know I will never watch CBS again. Nor will I subscribe to paramount

Toni McClory3

Works for me. I like the Colbert vibe a lot, but I dislike censorship even more. Perhaps the networks underestimate the costs of political cowardice...?

Justin Juerakhan3

Look I may not like Kimmel, but he’s damn right. CBS is in the gutter while NBC and ABC are thriving, so is independent media!

Xergg🍁3

Easily, Colbert was the only reason I watched anything CBS has produced since he took over the show.

City Lights Sharon3

I am totally on board with this! F CBS. F Paramount+. F Larry and David Ellison and all they own.

patches68.bsky.social3

Canceling my subscription to Paramount plus, and i urge everyone to do the same.

Mr. Ed- Release the Trumpstein Files-distract from Gas Prices3

Don't forget to cancel Paramount +

Von Zuben3

ABC must be thinking it's pretty sweet that one of their stars can just come out and say that nowadays. Like Ronald McDonald explicitly telling customers to boycott Burger King.

Chaiah2

Have no fear! JUST SAY NO TO CBS!

John Stewart for PRESIDENT!2

Blocking soon as Colbert signs off.

K-BIZNE$$2

I'm pissed off at TIME Magazine for not listening to me and putting the Middle Finger picture as their cover

Jim “J” Johnson2

That’d be the plan here.

John E Bartley, III K7AAY (D) NSSAR📎▼2

Erased the CBS local affiliate channel from both TV & TiVo. Guaranteed.

David Del Vecchio2

That won’t be hard to do.

ekc21.bsky.social2

I just received an email stating that my Paramount subscription ends 5/21/2026! Finally! No more CBS!

Benjamming2u22

CBS 10.30 time slot is going to be a Bust but it doesn't matter to them because there's a billionaire who has money to waste.

BitchIsBack2

If Butch Springstone did not have a Struggling Working Class to speak to his Songs would make as much Sense as Taylor Swift's and he wouldn't sell any albums or sellout any Concerts Billionaires need the Working Class Struggling to support their Massive Corporate Profits. #CelebritiesSuck

@The Real Crustocrates2

Shouldn’t be a problem. I’m going to look into every single little company Bari Weiss has her grubby little fingers in and encourage everyone I know to boycott the shit out of it.

leemarquette.bsky.social2

Got that covered. Networks that bow to a felon and pedo will never get my attention.

odonata73.bsky.social2

I don't understand why we throw up our hands go BooHoo Colbert's of the air, Anderson Cooper is gone, 60 mins is garbage. Murdoch took a bunch of no talents sat them in a studio and created Fox News. Are you telling me that with the talent available no one can come up with a similar business plan?

debirpo.bsky.social2

Bill Paley is flip flopping in his grave, or already haunting Bari.

Blackbelt0102

I remember watching the moon landing on black and white tv mom and dad, with Cronkite reporting, and Rather reporting from the war in Vietnam. CBS is done.

decib.bsky.social2

Don’t worry. I’ve dumped all my US streaming services except PBS.

gotnoname16.bsky.social2

Won’t be difficult. Rarely watch CBS now.

Look For The Helpers2

He doesn’t have to ask me twice.

thecat854.bsky.social2

Tomorrow morning, make sure @cbsnews.com @paramountpictures.bsky.social go dark in your house I hope we can all make the message immediate. And sustain it through the summer They had the constitution. They chose capitulation. Because the King in the US is corruption disguised as Capitalism.

cindyrice1.bsky.social2

I stopped after the take over

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