Stephen Colbert’s Canceled ‘Late Show’ Won Its Emmy, And He Used It To Pitch His Staff: ‘Hire Them’ - HuffPost

Sounds like Stephen Colbert had a rough 2025 — and so did his protégé. Stand-up comedian Taylor Tomlinson — the former host of the Colbert-produced “After Midnight” — is opening up about how just months before CBS canceled “The Late Show,” she had a pretty awkward phone call with Colbert in which she told him she was quitting his show. “I spent that call with Stephen (Mr. Colbert? Not sure how to address him now) crying and apologizing before I got off the phone, shaking with shame,” Tomlinson wrote in her new memoir “Actually, Nevermind,” per an excerpt from The Hollywood Reporter. “I felt awful and guilty and yet again — disappointing.”Tomlinson hosted the improv-based “After Midnight” that aired immediately after “Colbert” on CBS for two seasons from January 2024 to June 2025. She announced her departure in March 2025. The timeline that led up to her call with Colbert makes her exit sound extra messy. The “Quarter-Life Crisis” comedian explained in her memoir that just hours after she told two executive producers about her decision to leave, CBS informed the show that “After Midnight” had been renewed for a third season.