Stephen Colbert recreates the Coldplay kiss cam incident with an animated Donald Trump and the Paramount logo. pic.twitter.com/bhWrlpeYDo

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“He’s so petty, i love it!” one user quipped.

“I fear they gonna end his show before the date they announced,” someone else jokingly speculated.

“Oh exactly Stephen Colbert you are iconic and thanks for 3nding that orange man,” another chimed in.

“I’m glad our top comedic minds are keeping this banger of a joke alive,” a fourth user penned.

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“I just know the last week of the show gonna be so messy,” one user pointed out.

“U know what.. I just became a fan of Stephen…” someone else jested.

“I absolutely love dedicated haters!! Colbert is going down swinging and I am here for it,” yet another echoed.

“Stephen Colbert never misses a chance to blend satire with pop culture. Recreating the Coldplay kiss cam with animated Trump and Paramount peak late-night creativity,” a user asserted.

Stephen Colbert’s beef with Donald Trump and Paramount Global explored

“Some people see this show going away as a sign of something truly dire… We here at ‘The Late Show’ never saw our job as changing anything other than how you felt at the end of the day… Or rather, changing how you felt the next morning, when you watched on your phone, which is why broadcast TV is dying — you’re part of the problem, look in the mirror.”

“Point is, I don’t want this show to be associated with making you sad or anxious. So I thought: music, OK? That makes people happy, right? So instead of me talking, here with a song to cheer you up are two musical greats,” he said, introducing “Weird Al” Yankovic and Lin-Manuel Miranda.

“I just got this note from corporate,” he said. “Your song has been canceled. It says here, ‘This is a purely financial decision,’” with Colbert saying that since they began singing the song “the network has lost, and I don’t know how this is possible, $40 million to $50 million.” That’s a joke about the reported annual losses of “The Late Show.”

“I heard so many great things from Mayor Adams about it. As someone who has always been a proud employee of this network, I am offended,” he said. “And I don’t know if anything will ever repair my trust in this company. But just taking a stab at it, I’d say $16m would help.”

“Paramount knows they could have fought it,” because the company reportedly called the lawsuit “completely without merit”. “And keep in mind, Paramount produced Transformers: Rise of the Beast – they know completely without merit,” he quipped.