The End of Late Night as We Know It
Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Stephen Colbert has officially signed off, CBS is exiting the late night game, and the future of the format feels more uncertain than ever. This week, Rebecca and John are joined by VF special correspondent Joy Press to discuss the final episode of The Late Show, the politics and economics behind CBS’s decision, and the social media stars redefining the genre. They also share their top picks for what to watch this month.
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| 0:00.0 | Critics hail Wonder Man as a comedic love letter to the art of acting and a triumph of storytelling. |
| 0:07.0 | Wonder Man for your consideration in all categories, including Outstanding Comedy Series. |
| 0:13.0 | TV Academy members can stream on Disney Plus. |
| 0:27.6 | Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, Benny Fares podcast for film, TV, and awards lovers. I'm Rebecca Ford. |
| 0:28.6 | And I'm John Ross. |
| 0:30.6 | John, we've been talking a lot about Cannes lately, and we're going to do a little bit more about that now. |
| 0:36.6 | Do you want to brag? I do. You should brag. You should. |
| 0:42.0 | Ford won the Palm, the top prize, which I had said at least out loud once during a can podcast. |
| 0:50.4 | So I'm taking credit for that win, which I think was a great winner for the |
| 0:55.3 | Palm. How did you feel about it? Well, it's my favorite thing I saw at the festival. So yeah. |
| 0:59.9 | I will say we missed some stuff at the end. I missed Minotar, which you saw, and the Black Ball |
| 1:04.5 | seems to have been quite a sensation that we both weren't able to see. And Minnator won second place, the Grand Prix, |
| 1:12.4 | and the Black Ball won Best Director along with Fatherland. So that was a, there were a lot of |
| 1:18.0 | double wins this time around. Right. Well, you also had another prediction that came true, |
| 1:23.5 | which was for Best Actress. Yeah, I was hoping you'd say that out loud just to give me the |
| 1:27.4 | book credit. Well, I'm going to'd say that out loud just to give me... |
| 1:27.9 | Well, I'm going to start. |
| 1:29.0 | I have to brag just very quickly about myself before we get into it. |
| 1:34.8 | Yes, so those are the two lead actresses in all of a sudden. |
| 1:38.7 | Virginie Efeira and Tao Okamoto were really great in their performances. |
| 1:43.7 | They have to speak English and French and Japanese, and it's a very dialogue-heavy three-hour movie, and they really delivered. What did you want to show off about John? Well, it's not can-related, but if you remember, when we were doing our Oscar predictions way too early, I said, I think Netflix is going to release Cliff Booth, |
| 2:04.3 | the David Fincher, Brad Pitt, Quentin Tarantino, written film and theaters. And they are. They're |
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