The Wailing Over Stephen Colbert’s ‘Cancellation’ Is Blasted Into Confetti by Another Paramount Contract

For a week now, we have endured the perpetual petulance in the press over the announced “cancellation” of Stephen Colbert. With amusement (not a common reaction with Colbert), we have witnessed the hysterics over the announced end of his show. The claims he was being silenced by Trump were not bound to any facts. That his show was losing a mint annually was a reality many wanted to overlook.

There is a reason I have “cancellation” in quotation marks. Colbert is not being taken off the air. CBS is not replacing him; it has simply decided not to renew his contract. He will be spewing his clapter-inducing monologues for another 10 months, at which point the network yanks the plug on his show entirely. And as for the desperate claim that this decision was tied to the Trump lawsuit? That has been exposed as well, as it was learned the network made this call weeks BEFORE the settlement with Trump. Colbert only recently learned of his demise because his agent withheld telling him while he was on vacation.

Now comes the dagger to this censorship strawman. While media figures were rendering neck-borne strands of pearls, another media deal was being struck. It was just announced that Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of “South Park,” have signed a contract renewal. This new contract is a five-year agreement that will pay the duo $1.5 billion. That eye-watering sum delivers quite an object lesson for any media watchers in our journalism class.

South Park goes harder against Trump - and is far funnier - than Stephen Colbert, and they get promoted while he gets cancelled.

The useless elite complaining about democracy ignore the reality - it’s just money, and ROI. He’s a dinosaur, and the meteor just hit. He’s extinct.
— Steve Krakauer (@SteveKrak) July 25, 2025

While the bleating has been insisting Colbert was being silenced by White House indirect-ives, the hysterical set had to overlook the core numbers that revealed Colbert’s “The Late Show” bleeds $40 million in losses annually. Meanwhile, “South Park” has proven itself a cash cow, as well as serving as a magnet for subscribers for the struggling Paramount+ streaming service. Oh, and did you catch that? Yes – Paramount, which owns Comedy Central where “South Park” resides on the entertainment map, is also the parent company of the CBS Network. (This also was Jon Stewart’s flaw this Monday, as he complained that CBS censored Colbert while vulgarly insulting Trump on the CBS-owned network.)

Now, how does the narrative hold up that Trump was pressuring the company to curtail Colbert’s criticism, but was perfectly comfortable with the far more outlandish attacks seen on the animated program? This week was the debut for “South Park” season 26, and in the first episode, President Trump is eviscerated at a level that a month’s worth of Colbert monologues could never achieve. He is insulted frequently, portrayed as the supreme narcissist, is shown having an embarrassingly small manhood, and is placed in scenes in bed with the Devil.

(Offense warning in clip.)

South Park takes aim at President Trump in their latest episode, linking him to the Epstein files and putting him in bed with Satan 👀 pic.twitter.com/BtpEyV06lk
— Daily Loud (@DailyLoud) July 24, 2025

To see the idiocy of their cancellation claims, all we need to do is apply their same logic to “South Park.” Can it not be said that seeing the show go hard against Trump immediately after penning a monster payout contract should be seen as them selling out to liberal studio heads? That is the fractured logic at play. This was all a business decision, and here is what you need to ask yourselves: If Colbert was turning a profit insulting the president, do you really think they would have ended his show?

Editor's Note: The mainstream media continues to deflect, gaslight, spin, and lie about President Trump, his administration, and conservatives.

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