{"id":2627491,"date":"2026-07-09T18:37:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T22:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/colbert-reportedly-heartbroken-after-cbs-firing-this-wasnt-just-a-job-it-was-his-identity\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T18:39:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T22:39:34","slug":"colbert-reportedly-heartbroken-after-cbs-firing-this-wasnt-just-a-job-it-was-his-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/colbert-reportedly-heartbroken-after-cbs-firing-this-wasnt-just-a-job-it-was-his-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Colbert Reportedly &#8216;Heartbroken&#8217; After CBS Firing: &#8216;This Wasn&#8217;t Just a Job \u2013 It Was His Identity&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcolbert-reportedly-heartbroken-after-cbs-firing-this-wasnt-just-a-job-it-was-his-identity%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2627491&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Teh content discusses Stephen Colbert&#8217;s recent emotional state following the cancellation of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tim-allen-sends-farewell-message-as-last-man-standing-closes\/\" title=\"Tim Allen Sends Farewell Message As \u2018Last Man Standing\u2019 Closes\">long-running show<\/a>,\u201cThe Late Show,\u201d which ended in May 2025 after CBS announced it would not return due too <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-lindell-on-dominion-lawsuit-what-are-you-hiding\/\" title=\"Mike Lindell on Dominion Lawsuit: What Are You Hiding?\">financial losses<\/a>. Sources indicate Colbert felt &#8220;heartbroken&#8221; because the show was a important part of his identity, and he has been <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >emotionally withdrawn sence<\/a> its end. Despite his past focus on attacking President Trump and engaging in political commentary, some suggest that Colbert&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-vowed-to-elect-more-women-they-did-just-that\/\" title=\"Republicans Vowed To Elect More Women...They Did Just That\">current state<\/a> of misery is genuine and notable, contrasting with his previous persona. The article draws a parallel to a scene from C.S. Lewis&#8217;s novel \u201cThe Great Divorce,\u201d illustrating the idea that Colbert&#8217;s fixation on his past actions and conflicts may contribute to his struggles. Ultimately, the piece implies that Colbert\u2019s own choices led to his downfall, and it portrays his recent distress as a meaningful and somewhat satisfying development for his critics.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Cue the world\u2019s tiniest violin.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/robshuter.substack.com\/p\/exclusive-stephen-colberts-heartbreak?r=27qk36&#038;utm_medium=ios&#038;triedRedirect=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Naughty but Nice<\/a>, a Substack account run by entertainment-gossip journalist Rob Shuter, longtime late-night fixture Stephen Colbert has felt \u201cheartbroken\u201d since the final episode of \u201cThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert\u201d aired on May 21.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis wasn\u2019t just a job \u2014 it was his identity,\u201d a source told Shuter. \u201cStephen poured everything into that show. Losing it has hit him hard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Colbert reportedly has kept to himself in recent weeks. He even appeared glum at the Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce wedding over the weekend, Shuter reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s always been the one holding everyone else together,\u201d a second source told Shuter. \u201cNow he\u2019s the one who needs time. He\u2019s stepped away to figure out what comes next.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In July 2025, amid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/cancellation-justified-late-show-stephen-colbert-even-worse-can-imagine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">serious financial losses<\/a>, CBS announced Colbert\u2019s show would not be returning after its season ended this year, bringing to a close a run that<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3697842\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> started in 2015<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The comedian-turned-establishment-propagandist then spent the next 10 months doing what he had done for a decade: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/colbert-isnt-handling-cancelled-launches-vile-trump-attack-air\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Attacking President Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, even some liberals viewed the months-long, Trump-hating farewell tour as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/hollywood-publication-variety-trashes-stephen-colberts-never-ending-anti-trump-farewell-tour-not-good-tv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tiresome<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The president, however, got the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-celebrates-total-jerk-colberts-official-cancellation-s-brutal-farewell-message-finally-gone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last laugh<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, readers of The Western Journal and other conservatives have long considered Colbert simply a shill for the liberal establishment.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, who can forget \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/vaccine-cheerleader-stephen-colbert-forced-stop-filming-show-doctors-orders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Vax-Scene<\/a>\u201c? In one of the most cringe-inducing skits in television history, Colbert and a bunch of dancers dressed as syringes pushed the COVID-19 shot.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, conservatives already recognize Colbert as a nauseating dweeb who sold his soul to the world\u2019s worst people.<\/p>\n<p>His post-firing misery, however, qualifies as real news \u2014 real and delicious.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, it calls to mind a scene from legendary Christian author <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/screwtape-proposes-toast-c-s-lewis-believed-demons-love-democracy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">C.S. Lewis\u2019<\/a> [1945<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Great-Divorce-C-S-Lewis\/dp\/0060652950\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">novel<\/a>, \u201cThe Great Divorce.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Early in the novel, where Lewis imagines a bus ride from Hell to Heaven, a fellow passenger tells him that two men he knew had made the 15,000-year journey to see a house that Napoleon Bonaparte had built in Hell. When Lewis asks if the men had seen the former French emperor, the passenger replies in the affirmative.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWalking up and down-up and down all the time-left-right, left-right-never stopping for a moment,\u201d the passenger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thespiritlife.net\/warfare-publications\/3201-the-great-divorce-by-cs-lewis-chapters-1-3.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">says<\/a> of Napoleon\u2019s behavior in the afterlife. \u201cThe two chaps watched him for about a year and he never rested. And muttering to himself all the time. \u2018It was Soult\u2019s fault. It was Ney\u2019s fault. It was Josephine\u2019s fault. It was the fault of the Russians. It was the fault of the English.\u2019 Like that all the time. Never stopped for a moment. A little, fat man and he looked kind of tired. But he didn\u2019t seem able to stop it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/last-leg-stephen-colberts-far-left-farewell-tour-reminds-us-exactly-cbs-canceled\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colbert<\/a> hopes to avoid a similar fate, he should forget he ever heard of Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, he should look in the mirror with only one thought: \u201cYou did this to yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #171717; display: flex;font-size: 16px;font-weight: 600;line-height: 1.5;margin: 24px 0;padding: 18px 20px 18px 30px;text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"align-self: stretch;border-left: 3px solid #171717;flex-shrink: 0;padding-left: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/\">Choose The Western Journal as your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/father-considers-lawsuit-against-gender-clinic-for-affirming-9-year-old-autistic-son-as-transgender-lesbian\/\" title=\"Father Considers Lawsuit Against Gender Clinic For Affirming 9-Year-Old Autistic Son As Transgender Lesbian\">preferred source<\/a> on Google and never miss reporting that defends truth, protects freedom, and advances Western civilization<\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"border: 1px solid #f5f5f5; padding: 16px;\">Advertise with The Western Journal and reach millions of highly engaged readers, while supporting our work. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/advertise-us\/?wj_source=article\">Advertise Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey == typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts = { \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs = [ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i = 0; i < inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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