The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is a U.S. television program broadcast on CBS since Tuesday, September 8, 2015. Late Show with Stephen Colbert is currently the 24th most popular show on CBS and 63rd overall on TV, watched by a total number of 1,914,000 people (0.6% rating, down -14% from last week) per episode, as of the average weekly audience measurement for the period ending . The Late Show is hosted by Stephen Tyrone Colbert (60).
Demographic breakdown of the most recent historical ratings of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on CBS as of Sunday, April 13, 2025.
| Late Show Weekly Ratings | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Demo | Audience | Rating |
| 2025-Apr-13 LIVE+3 | P2+ | 1,914,000 | 0.60 |
| P18-49 | 253,000 | 0.19 | |
| 2025-Apr-06 LIVE+3 | P2+ | 2,221,000 | 0.70 |
| P18-49 | 208,000 | 0.16 | |
| 2025-Mar-30 LIVE+3 | P2+ | 1,956,000 | 0.62 |
| P18-49 | 253,000 | 0.19 | |
| 2025-Mar-23 LIVE+3 | P2+ | 1,129,000 | 0.36 |
| P18-49 | 188,000 | 0.14 | |
| 2025-Mar-16 LIVE+3 | P2+ | 2,123,000 | 0.67 |
| P18-49 | 200,000 | 0.15 | |
| 2025-Mar-09 LIVE+3 | P2+ | 2,164,000 | 0.68 |
| P18-49 | 216,000 | 0.16 | |
| 2025-Mar-02 LIVE+3 | P2+ | 2,030,000 | 0.64 |
| P18-49 | 214,000 | 0.16 | |
| 2025-Feb-23 LIVE+3 | P2+ | 2,396,000 | 0.76 |
| P18-49 | 269,000 | 0.20 | |
| 2025-Feb-16 LIVE+3 | P2+ | 1,319,000 | 0.42 |
| P18-49 | 143,000 | 0.11 | |
| 2025-Jan-26 LIVE+3 | P2+ | 2,054,000 | 0.65 |
| P18-49 | 203,000 | 0.15 | |
| 2025-Jan-19 LIVE+3 | P2+ | 1,916,000 | 0.60 |
| P18-49 | 191,000 | 0.14 | |
| 2024-Jan-21 | P18-49 | 211,000 | 0.16 |
| 2023-Oct-15 | P18-49 | 224,200 | 0.17 |
| 2023-Oct-08 | P18-49 | 211,000 | 0.16 |
| Late Show Monthly Ratings | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Demo | Audience | Rating |
| 2025-Mar LIVE+7 | P2+ | 2,327,000 | 0.73 |
| P18-49 | 227,000 | 0.17 | |
| 2025-Feb LIVE+7 | P2+ | 2,490,000 | 0.78 |
| P18-49 | 246,000 | 0.18 | |
| 2025-Jan LIVE+7 | P2+ | 2,376,000 | 0.75 |
| P18-49 | 239,000 | 0.18 | |
| Late Show Quarterly Ratings | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Demo | Audience | Rating |
| 2025-Q1 LIVE+7 | P2+ | 2,394,000 | 0.75 |
| P18-49 | 237,000 | 0.18 | |
| Rank | Program | Audience | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Masters Golf Tournament | 12,990,000 | +35% |
| 2 | 60 Minutes | 9,626,000 | +70% |
| 3 | Tracker | 8,234,000 | -2% |
| 4 | Matlock | 6,152,000 | +4% |
| 5 | Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage | 5,798,000 | -3% |
| 6 | FBI | 5,770,000 | -4% |
| 7 | NCIS | 5,071,000 | -4% |
| 8 | Ghosts | 5,031,000 | -2% |
| 9 | Watson | 4,966,000 | +246% |
| 10 | Survivor | 4,785,000 | -2% |
| 11 | FBI: International | 4,590,000 | -5% |
| 12 | FBI: Most Wanted | 4,411,000 | |
| 13 | Fire Country | 4,211,000 | +7% |
| 14 | NCIS: Sydney | 3,946,000 | +3% |
| 15 | Neighborhood | 3,884,000 | -5% |
| 16 | Equalizer | 3,818,000 | -2% |
| 17 | CBS Evening News | 3,739,000 | -5% |
| 18 | NCIS: Origins | 3,571,000 | +1% |
| 19 | S.W.A.T. | 3,533,000 | +13% |
| 20 | Poppa's House | 3,116,000 | -14% |
| 21 | Saturday Encore | 2,800,000 | +65% |
| 22 | Amazing Race | 2,594,000 | -3% |
| 23 | 48 Hours | 2,259,000 | +24% |
| 24 | Late Show with Stephen Colbert | 1,914,000 | -14% |
| 25 | CBS Mornings | 1,834,000 | -7% |
| 26 | After Midnight | 644,000 | +10% |
It seems that most of the late night comics come across as incredibly fired up and hyper, like energizer bunnies. Colbert, Jimmy Fallon
and John Oliver seem to be the most juiced up dudes, like they're about to have heart attacks. The only one who makes me laugh out
loud is John Oliver.
P.S. ---- Greg Gutfeld and Jimmy Failla are also pretty good at making me laugh at "liberals".
Colbert is a crushing bore. Predictable, whiney, and a complete hick (no sense of the world outside of Manhattan).
Its pathetic that the late night shows have to book their own liberal co hosts for guest because no real celebrity wants to drink their kool aid anymore.
If Colbert can't be a bit more neutral it seems to me, he only owns half off the audience out there. I am registered a Democrat, but even I get tired of his picking on the Republicans. There should be a bit of humor pointing to both sides, it seems. The man needs more variety in his humor----for sure!
Can someone tell Colbert
He ‘jumped the shark’ already
Sorry night show. What happen to good night show like Johnny Carson fire Colbert.
Colbert is a genius.
Hilarious show! Colbert's skewering of lying Republicans like Trump, Guiliani, and George Santos is hilarious. Thank you to the Republican party for providing an endless source of juicy material for comedy writers. It's the Golden Age of Comedy.
Interesting correlation between decline in viewership following his reaction to the Department of Energy findings.
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It's pretty much impossible to be on the show unless youre a politician, a huge internet personality on YouTube, or a Hollywood celebrity.
If you wanna be in the show's audience, go to 1iota (colbert.1iota.com) for free tickets for the series. If you want it without tickets, after The Colb exits the stage at The Ed Sullivan (the studio for it, located at 1697 Broadway, New York 10019) at 5 P.M., try to run and ask him if you can be his audience warm-up or possibly even a series writer.