Overview
- Stewart told New Yorker editor David Remnick, "we’re working on staying," confirming active discussions to continue hosting.
- His current deal runs through December 2025, and he has been back on Mondays since early 2024 after leaving the show in 2015.
- The negotiations come after Paramount’s merger with Skydance; onstage, Stewart called CEO David Ellison his "new boss."
- Stewart has criticized Paramount’s $16 million 60 Minutes settlement with President Trump and questioned the timing of The Late Show’s 2026 end, which CBS says was a financial decision.
- He also skewered Jimmy Kimmel’s brief suspension with a satirical episode and said comedians are not the administration’s true victims.