Stephen Colbert is opening up about his next chapter after CBS canceled his late night show.

In a new interview with GQ, which was conducted shortly before The Late Show With Stephen Colbert won big at the 2025 Emmy Awards, Colbert, 61, said he “accepted” the network’s decision to pull the plug on his show.

“Listen, every show’s got to end at some time,” Colbert told GQ. “And I’ve been on a bunch of shows that have ended sometimes by our lights and sometimes by the decision of other people. And that’s just the nature of show business. You can’t worry about that. You got to be a big boy about that. But I think we’re the first number one show to ever get canceled.”

When the interviewer noted how long Colbert has “been attaching [his] mouth to the exhaust pipe of news,” the comedian quippe

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