Late night host Stephen Colbert has broken his silence on the possibility that his show was canceled for political reasons, telling GQ magazine that he believes it’s “reasonable” to associate CBS’ axing of his top-rated show with a settlement made in a lawsuit filed by President Trump. But Colbert stopped short of making that claim himself, insisting “my side of the street is clean.”

Colbert graces the cover of this month’s GQ and was interviewed by Zach Baron as one of the magazine’s 2025 Men of the Year and in the accompanying interview, one of the first Colbert has sat for since the news broke that the network is canceling The Late Show — his iteration as well as the entire long-running franchise — after he took over as host 10 years ago. The magazine asks him about the unc

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