Stephen Colbert’s final show was last night, and well, while he has been one of the best political satirists of our time, his ultimate joke was getting fired by the same network that later hired Bari Weiss.

The cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last summer was not done because of ratings or any other excuse CBS Paramount wanted to invent. It was because Curiously Alien-Like Billionaire Larry Ellison and his nepobaby, David Ellison, the owners of Paramount, were upset that Colbert took a well-deserved shot at their company for paying a $16 million settlement to Rotting Semi-Sentient Carrot Donald Trump over an edited 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris, which Trump claimed was unfair. When Daddy is upset, everyone has to do what Daddy says will make it all better. 

A Deep Irony Vortex developed when the Ellisons brought on Top 100 Worst Person Bari Weiss to run the venerable institution of journalism, the home of Murrow and Cronkite, CBS News. The reason why this particular hire is so ironic in light of the Colbert cancellation is that our Bari is an OG cancel culture warrior.

You see, Bari was an opinion editor at the New York Times, one of the Terrible Times Conservatives, along with Airport Day Drinker David Brooks and Bretbug Bret Stephens. You might recall that Bari claimed she was a victim of cancel culture. She whined and whined about how all the lefties at the New York Times were mean to her, so she had no choice but to quit. She quickly became the poster child for the Canceled of Cancel Culture, babbling non-stop about how cancel culture is the Greatest Problem of Our Time.

In fact, poor Bari was so canceled that she started her own publication, The Free Press. If whiny centrists and center-right people could fly, The Free Press is an airport. Lots of writers who believe that someone questioning their opinions is tantamount to restricting their First Amendment rights found a home there. Then, Paramount (under the new Paramount Skydance leadership) acquired Bari’s lame outlet for approximately $150 million in cash and stock in October 2025. As part of the deal, Weiss was appointed Editor-in-Chief of CBS News to “modernize content and drive editorial innovation.”

We should all be so darn cancelled.

This is, of course, not going well. Weiss is a grifter, and cancel culture was her grift, and that doesn’t add up to the skills and experience needed to run a major new operation.

Circling back to Stephen Colbert’s canceling, the idea that the executives running the Network of Bari Weiss were the ones who canceled him over an opinion is just, as they used to say, pretty rich. The cancel culture hysteria was always a lot of hypocritical bullshit, but the idea that CBS would cancel Colbert because the Whiner-in-Chief bitched about his political opponent getting some sort of imagined preferential treatment almost doesn’t seem real.

Colbert has a long history of producing fantastic political satire, and this one didn’t even require any effort. All he had to do was get cancelled by a network that hired the biggest cancel culture grifter to run their news side. Colbert himself, if presented with this scenario by one of his writers, probably would have rejected it for being too on the nose.

The last word goes to Lake Street Dive, on The Late Show.