I know so many people who work there. I love Stephen. I consider him to be a friend,” Bee said, but noted she was "not surprised" by Paramount's decision.

Ever since Stephen Colbert’s Late Show was canceled earlier this month, the industry has been locked in an existential debate about whether CBS’ decision had to do with politics or was purely financial, as the network itself claimed. To Colbert’s former Daily Show colleague Samantha Bee, it’s a little from column A, a little from column B.

Samantha Bee is not convinced that Paramount decided to end The Late Show only to please Donald Trump, saying Tuesday that Stephen Colbert’s show was “hemorrhaging money.” “It’s so much easier for them to cut it loose with this merger coming down the pike,