"The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart lambasted CBS on Monday over its decision to cancel "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," dismissing the claim that it was a financial decision and not meant to appease President Donald Trump. 

"Obviously, I am certainly not the most objective to comment on this matter," Stewart conceded before revisiting Colbert's late-night rise on Comedy Central on "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report," before singing his praises at CBS.

"Watching Stephen exceed all expectations in the role and become the number one late-night show on network television has been an undeniable great pleasure for me as a viewer and as his friend, and now Stephen has been canceled for ‘purely financial reasons,’ Stewart said while casting doubt on the network's claim. 

Comedy Central and CBS are sister networks under the Paramount umbrella.

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Stewart acknowledged late-night TV broadly is struggling financially, but stressed that "when your industry is faced with changes, you don't just call it a day."

"The fact that CBS didn't try to save their number one-rated network late-night franchise that's been on the air for over three decades is part of what's making everybody wonder, ‘Was this purely financial, or maybe the path of least resistance for your $8 billion merger?'" he asked. 

"Was killing a show that you know rankled a fragile and vengeful president so insecure, suffering terribly from a case of chronic penis insufficiency," Stewart said. "I believe CBS lost the benefit of the doubt two weeks prior when they sold out their flagship news program to pay an extortion fee to said president."

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Stewart said he understood making decisions with an $8 billion merger at stake, but grew serious, saying, "The shows that you now seek to cancel, censor and control, a not insignificant portion of that $8 billion value came from those f---ing shows."

"That's what made you that money! Shows that say something, shows that take a stand, shows that are unafraid," he said. "We try. We f---ing try every night. And if you believe, as corporations or as networks, you can make yourselves so innocuous, that you can serve a gruel so flavorless that you will never again be on the boy king's radar, why will anyone watch you, and you are f---ing wrong." 

The Comedy Central host went on to say critics won't find a "smoking gun email or phone call" to answer why Colbert's show was being canceled but that the answer is "in the fear and pre-compliance that is gripping all of America's institutions at this very moment."

"This is not the moment to give in. I'm not giving in. I'm not going anywhere, I think," Stewart said, jokingly alluding to how Comedy Central is also owned by CBS' parent company Paramount. "To those institutions, to those corporations and advertisers and universities and law firms, all of them. If you still think that bending the knee to Trump will save you, I have one thing to say… sack the f--- up."

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Stewart finished his monologue with a gospel choir behind him, preaching to the audience, "If you're afraid and you protect your bottom line, I've got but one thing to say, just one little phrase: go f--- yourself!" 

CBS shocked the nation with its announcement last week that it would end "The Late Show" in May 2026. Liberal critics accused CBS and Paramount of being politically motivated, but a report from Puck's Matt Belloni showed that Colbert's show was costing the network $40 million a year and that it had been running on a whopping $100 million budget per season. 

Stewart himself admitted last week he doesn't know this future at Comedy Central under future ownership.

Colbert's cancellation comes on the heels of Paramount settling Trump's lawsuit against CBS News over its editing of a "60 Minutes" interview with Kamala Harris last year. Colbert was among the voices who were harshly critical of the move, likening it to paying a bribe with the merger looming and needing administration approval.

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Meanwhile, Fox News Channel's "Gutfeld!" has surged to become late-night's highest-rated program. In the second quarter of 2025, the show notched 3 million viewers and 365,000 in the 25-54 age demographic at the 10 p.m. ET hour, putting it ahead of "The Late Show," "The Daily Show," and late-night programs on ABC and NBC.

The family of a Long Island man who tragically died in a freak MRI-related accident is claiming that the technician is at fault for their loved one's death. 

The incident occurred at Nassau Open MRI in Westbury on Wednesday afternoon, where Keith McAllister, 61, was pulled into the machine by its powerful magnetic force and remained stuck for nearly an hour before being freed.

McAllister had accompanied his wife, Adrienne Jones-McAllister, who was undergoing a knee scan at the facility. 

According to their daughter, Samantha Bodden, the MRI technician left the room during the procedure to get McAllister to assist his wife, but failed to warn him about the danger of wearing metal near the machine. 

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Bodden also addressed media reports suggesting McAllister shouldn't have been in the room, clarifying that the technician had invited him in. 

"Several news stations are saying he wasn’t authorized to be in the room when in fact, he was because the technician went and brought him into the room," Bodden wrote. 

In a GoFundMe post set up to raise funds for funeral expenses, Bodden wrote that the magnetic field instantly pulled him in due to the chain he was wearing.

She detailed that both her mother and the technician tried unsuccessfully to free McAllister before calling the police for assistance. 

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"My mother and the tech tried for several minutes to release him before the police were called," Bodden wrote. "He was attached to the machine for almost an hour before they could release the chain from the machine."

Jones-McAllister detailed her last moments with her husband in an interview shared by ‘The Big Weekend Show.’ 

"I said, ‘Could you turn off the machine, call 9-1-1, do something, just turn this damn thing off?’ I'm just, I'm still trying to wrap my head around the whole thing. He waved goodbye to me and his whole body went limp," Jones-McAllister described. 

Bodden said that her dad passed away on July 17, losing his battle after "having several heart attacks following the tragic accident."

The Nassau County Police Department said the investigation is ongoing.

Nassau Open MRI told Fox News Monday morning that they had no comment.

MRI machines generate intense magnetic fields that can attract and heat up metal objects, creating serious hazards.

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Nassau Open MRI states on its website that anything metallic should be removed prior to an MRI, including hearing aids, partial plates, dentures, jewelry and hair pins. 

On a web page detailing the benefits and risks of MRIs, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) notes that "the strong, static magnetic field will attract magnetic objects (from small items such as keys and cell phones, to large, heavy items such as oxygen tanks and floor buffers) and may cause damage to the scanner or injury to the patient or medical professionals if those objects become projectiles." 

The FDA also notes that "adverse events" related to MRI scans are "very rare."

Kenneth J. Perry, M.D., an emergency medicine attending physician in Charleston, South Carolina, told Fox News Digital that the best way to prevent these types of accidents is to have a "robust MRI protocol" in place. 

Fox News Digital reached out to Nassau Open MRI requesting comment.

Fox News' Melissa Rudy contributed to this report.