Last week – just a few days after Stephen Colbert called out his parent company for paying Donald Trump millions of dollars – CBS canceled the Late Show With Stephen Colbert.

Maybe now people will finally stop saying Trump is good for comedy.

In this latest Trump administration, I often joke that I’m just not cut out for being this furious all the time. I’m a comedy writer. I’m built for naming dogs Doctor Reginald Pancakes and writing sentences like “Every woman’s deodorant is called Delicate Whisper and every man’s deodorant is called Beef Shazam!” I get that there’s nothing more annoying than a comedian getting all serious, and yet here we are.

So first, let’s address the obvious: was the cancellation for political reasons or, as the network claims, for “purely financial” reasons. My answer? Yes. The problem is we keep treating those like they’re separate things.

CBS isn’t ending the show for 10 months. They could have made the announcement whenever they wanted. But they chose to tell Stephen Colbert, host of the highest-rated network late night show, just 48 hours after he

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