Monday, June 22, 2026

CBS Stopped Stephen Colbert from Broadcasting Interview with James Talarico, Who’s Running for the Senate in Texas: HERE IT IS

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Wow. CBS and the FCC wouldn’t let Stephen Colbert show his interview with James Talarico last night.

But it went out on YouTube anyway, and here it is.

Colbert told FCC Chairman Brendan Carr via his audience: “FCC you… because I think you are motivated by partisan purposes yourself, sir. Hey, you smelt it ’cause you dealt it. You are Dutch-ovening America’s airwaves.”

The interview is below, as well as Colbert’s 8 min explanation for what happened. It’s brilliant.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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