Hour 2: Late-night TV's future.

The Mark Simone Show

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🗓️ 16 March 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

When Stephen Colbert wraps up his final show, sources indicate there will be no formal send-off. Additionally, Access Hollywood has officially been cancelled by NBCUniversal. Mark also breaks down a newly identified category of emails found within the Epstein files. Could Iran be under a different regime within a matter of months? Mark weighs in. Mark takes your calls! Mark interviews author Mark Malkoff. Both Marks make the case that Johnny Carson was the greatest Oscars host of all time. The conversation explores Carson’s personal struggles, including his well-documented battle with alcohol, and how he managed to maintain his professionalism and signature charm throughout his tenure on The Tonight Show. Malkoff also addresses whether Carson ever had a notable falling-out with anyone during his storied career.

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0:00.0	Back to Mark Simone on WOR.
0:08.0	Well, we'll get to Johnny Carson later this hour.
0:11.4	He's speaking to which Stephen Colbert, believe it or not, it's hard to believe, isn't it?
0:15.1	He went from Johnny Carson to Stephen Colbert, this angry, bitter little guy with this twisted up, it's called The Late Show,
0:23.1	should be called The Hate Show. It's just this hate-filled rant every night.
0:27.3	They fired him. He's gone. He's just working out the contract, which has got, it's March, April, May.
0:34.9	So it's about two more months. But CBS is already erasing Stephen Colbert from everything they can.
0:42.9	If you go into the big broadcast center, 57th and 11th, when you walk in there, there's pictures of all the shows as you come down the hallway.
0:52.0	The pictures of Colbert and the Late Show have disappeared.
0:55.7	They've been taken off the walls.
0:57.7	One insider saying it's like it never existed at all.
1:01.8	Every CBS facility everywhere has taken down all the pictures of Colbert, all the references to Colbert.
1:08.6	The network now confirms that when he goes off the air, there will be no sendoff,
1:15.0	no goodbye party, no anything.
1:17.2	They've had it with this guy.
1:18.9	They want nothing to do with him.
1:20.1	He's ruined late night television.
1:22.8	Something completely destroyed it.
1:24.6	He was really first to go total hatred hatred and then Kimmel followed. Fallon
1:29.2	sort of followed, but Fallon's the one guy who could go back to a regular entertainment show at
1:34.4	night if he wanted to. Kimmel is too far gone. He just became this angry, bitter guy. Colbert
1:40.8	was always just a hate-filled angry guy, so they can't wait to get this thing off the air.
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