CBS Suspends Takedown Notices on Bootleg YouTube Uploads of Stephen Colbert’s ‘Only in Monroe’ Public Access Show After Outcry

If you want to read PR copy, Variety is your number one source. 

It popped up in my feed, he basically told trump to kiss his ass with this show.

>“Stephen Colbert’s return to Monroe in the ‘Only in Monroe’ episode was financed and produced by CBS Studios and was posted on Stephen Colbert’s YouTube channel in collaboration with Monroe Community Media and ‘The Late Show’s’ YouTube channels,” a CBS spokesperson said in a statement.

Is this a sign of CBS bucking against their Paramount overlords? I can’t imagine the Paramount execs who cut Colbert would want to fund his future projects. Maybe they didn’t realize how awesome and popular it would be, and that it would pull a global audience?

Has there ever been an organization more willing to shoot itself in the junk repeatedly despite multiple visible warnings not to? They’ve done more to destroy brand value since the incompetent idiot Bari took over than any company I can think of except maybe Tesla and its Nazi CEO.
Then *after* canceling Colbert, who closes out in a finale that was a national joy fest, they go after him on a fake copyright violation? Read the f*cking room people! Are there no grown-ups left in what used to be the Columbia broadcasting system? Or even more to the point are there no young people left you can say “hey, you f*cked up and now you’re f*cking up even more?”

They deserve to be devalued to zero and watch their ratings plummet for all the content they attempt to turn out. I will laugh and applaud as they burn to the ground financially and socially.

It’s great that he’s doing this again. First episode was before the late show started on 2015 and the second episode is after the late show ended in 2026. The world has changed a lot in 11 years.

CBS says they financed this episode. For now I’ll take that as truth.

But it does lead to a bigger question, why would CBS finance this episode if he’s already out the door?

And does this mean CBS paid for it separately or that CBS feels that the money used to produce this episode was part of their previous contract with CBS for Late Night. That is to to say, that producing this episode was part of Colbert’s contractual obligations to CBS for that now-ended gig?

Trump. Rapes. Children.

Boycott Paramount

Maybe this will convince YT to fix their stupid takedown and review process. Multiple streamers I watch have had to deal with the ability or companies to easily get videos taken down and demonetized despite them being legally valid and eventually overturned after a LOOONG process when it’s realistically too late to matter anymore.