Stephen Colbert took Jimmy Fallon off guard on Monday night, when the CBS late night host planted a kiss on the NBC late night host. Yes, really. The smooch occurred during a game with fellow Strike Force Five hosts Seth Meyers,

Stephen Colbert is closing out The Late Show with a star-studded final week of guests including Barack Obama, Tom Hanks, David Letterman, and his fellow late-night hosts, ahead of the May 21 CBS finale.

CBS announced its deal with Allen in April, giving him the full 11:35 p.m. hour to air back-to-back episodes of “Comics Unleashed” Mondays through Fridays. Allen will also continue to own the following hour, as his comedy game show “Funny You Should Ask” shifts its schedule.

Television is a medium built on longevity. Contracts stretch for seasons, hosts become fixtures, and networks bet on the comfort of continuity. However, Stephen Colbert recently confided that he

Instead of producing original content, CBS plans to lease the late-night time slot to Byron Allen for his show, “Comics Unleashed,” allowing him to manage his own advertising. The former host compared this change to the rise of storage facilities on highways.

America's biggest late-night hosts, all from rival networks, used a rare on-air reunion to needle Trump's long-running fixation with them and trash Paramount. The post Jimmy Kimmel Reveals the Brutal Reason Nobody Can Boycott CBS for Axing Colbert During All-Star Late-Night Send Off first appeared on Mediaite.

Stephen Colbert lashed out at CBS in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, saying his "Late Show" cancellation reinforced a narrative of bending the knee to President Donald Trump.

When THR noted to Colbert that the circumstances surrounding the cancellation of his show allow him “to go out as a kind of martyr” and how Kimmel almost met the same fate, Colbert quipped: “Oh yeah. I was like, ‘Hey, there’s only room for one person on this cross, buddy!’”