John Oliver is asking the cancellation of The Late Present With Stephen Colbert “extremely unhappy.”
Whereas chatting with reporters over the weekend, Oliver was requested his ideas in regards to the information, which CBS revealed in a shock announcement on Thursday.
“Clearly, I like Stephen, I like his employees, I like that present — it’s extremely unhappy,” the Final Week Tonight host responded. “I’m partly excited to see what they’re gonna do for the following 10 months. It’s horrible, horrible information for the world of comedy.”
Oliver and Colbert each served as correspondents on The Day by day Present — although not on the identical time — and are associates, with Oliver having appeared on Colbert’s present through the years. Oliver additionally famous he grew up watching The Late Present in England, when David Letterman was host.
“Late-night reveals imply rather a lot to me, not simply because I work in them, as a result of even rising up in England, I’d watch Letterman’s present, which in fact was Stephen’s present, and take into consideration what a glamorous world that was,” he mentioned. “So to have gotten to have been on Letterman’s present and Stephen’s present was all the time some of the enjoyable issues. So it’s very, very, very unhappy information. I look ahead to seeing what [Colbert is] gonna do subsequent as a result of that man won’t cease.”
Colbert shared the present’s reside viewers through the taping of Thursday’s present on the Ed Sullivan Theatre in New York, drawing boos from the viewers. He mentioned he’d been informed in regards to the determination the evening earlier than.
In an announcement, CBS mentioned the cancellation was “purely a monetary determination in opposition to a difficult backdrop in late evening. It isn’t associated in any option to the present’s efficiency, content material or different issues occurring at Paramount.”
Final Week Tonight, in the meantime, is on hiatus till July 27. Oliver was speaking to reporters in Erie, Pa. — dwelling of the newly rebranded minor league baseball group, the Moon Mammoths. The group previously generally known as the Erie SeaWolves will play 4 video games underneath the brand new moniker, but it surely’s unclear if the title might be everlasting.
“That is totally for the folks of Erie and this group to resolve now,” Oliver mentioned, in accordance with YourErie.com. “In the event that they wish to return to the SeaWolves, this has been enjoyable. In the event that they wish to hold the Moon Mammoths perpetually, have it.”
Erie Mayor Joe Schember declared the day as Moon Mammoth Day and introduced Oliver with a key to town. The brand new title is impressed by George Moon’s discovery of a mammoth skeleton in Lake Nice in 1991.
Saturday evening’s recreation drew a document crowd of seven,070 at UPMC Park.