Jennifer Aniston proposes an idea for what Stephen Colbert should do next after his Late Show is canceled and officially ends next year.
During her Thursday appearance on Stephen’s show, the Friends alum, 61, brought some scripts for a fake scene that could be featured in the possible upcoming fifth season of her Apple TV+ series, The Morning Show. Jennifer admitted that she found him to be a “brilliant actor,” and joked that they’re “doing some preliminary casting for this fifth season, that we hope happens,” explaining that she’d let Stephen try it out while she was there.
“So I just thought, ‘Why not?’ You’re going to be free next year,” she joked, making a reference to when The Late Show will officially go off-air.
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“Starting in June, you’re avail? So I thought maybe you could audition for season 5 of The Morning Show! Isn’t that sort of perfect?” Jennifer asked.
Stephen happily agreed, offering to “fly out” to Los Angeles to audition, but Jennifer brought the audition to him in a sense, as she revealed that she had a scene for him to do on the spot.
“I figure we’ve got cameras, these are rolling, right? So we can get you on tape, as they say,” Jennifer said on the talk show.
After that, the actress had Stephen play the part of a “sexier” Steve Carell, “The Morning Show’s new weatherman, Jeremiah Cloudson-Storm.”
Also in the scene was a reference to the upsetting cancellation of The Late Show, as Jennifer shared, “I see you’re coming from two decades of doing late-night weather.”
Stephen quipped back: “Yeah, I had the number-one late-night weather show until the network canceled it. What a premise! Sounds ripped from the headlines,” Aniston quipped, and the host replied, “Yes, but changed just enough to not be legally actionable.”
CBS came under fire after it announced in July that they were axing Stephen’s talk show. Despite the network claiming it was a “purely financial decision,” many speculated it had more to do with CBS wanting to get in President Trump’s good graces since Stephen often criticized the POTUS on his show, which Trump thoroughly disliked.
At the time CBS announced Stephen’s Late Show was canceled, the station’s parent company, Paramount Global, was negotiating a mega merger with Skydance, and they needed the Trump administration to sign off on it.
Coincidentally, mere weeks after Stephen’s show was shut down, Trump approved Paramount’s merger with Skydance.
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