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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert during Thursday’s September 18, 2025 show. <\/span>Scott Kowalchyk\/CBS\/Getty<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Executives at CBS News<\/span> made it clear to Late Show<\/em> host Stephen Colbert: he wasn\u2019t to interview Texas state Rep. James Talarico last night, nor was he to discuss how he wasn\u2019t supposed to talk to the Democratic US Senate hopeful. But Colbert, who only has months left of his tenure on the show after being ousted<\/a> by Paramount Global, didn\u2019t listen<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cYou know who\u2019s not one of my guests tonight?\u201d Colbert began on Monday night. Talarico, he continued, \u201cwas supposed to be here, but we were told in no uncertain terms by our network\u2019s lawyers, who called us directly, that we could not have him on the broadcast.\u201d Colbert said that, \u201cin some uncertain terms,\u201d the network added that \u201cI could not mention me not having him on.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBecause my network clearly doesn\u2019t want us to talk about this, let\u2019s talk about this,\u201d he said, to cheers from the audience.\u00a0<\/p>\n