{"id":1729,"date":"2026-06-16T23:06:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T23:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=1729"},"modified":"2026-06-16T23:06:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T23:06:42","slug":"colberts-parting-gift-forces-cbs-to-give-money-to-his-favorite-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=1729","title":{"rendered":"Colbert’s parting gift forces CBS to give money to his favorite charity"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In his final episode, “The Late Show” host Stephen Colbert gave a parting gift as his own way of flipping the network the bird. Now CBS is on the hook and the cash will go to Colbert’s favorite charity. <\/p>\n

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In the final edition of his popular segment “Meanwhile,” Colbert mentioned recent copyright enforcement for Lee Mendelson Film Productions, which owns the song from the cartoons of Peanuts by creator Charles Schulz. They have recently gone on a kind of legal blitz over the usage of their content by Vince Guaraldi. One of those enforcement agreements concerns Guaraldi’s musical reproductions of the song, including the theme from the animated film “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” which features the famous theme song “Linus and Lucy.” <\/p>\n

\u201cPeanuts is a powerful brand and corporation in and of itself,” Colbert said. “Anyone illegally using that music is going to have to pay through the nose… Louis, Louis! Is the band right now playing the same Peanuts<\/em> music I just said people were being sued for using without permission? Is that what you’re doing? Oh no, I hope this doesn’t cost CBS any money!\u201d <\/p>\n

Variety<\/em> reported on Tuesday that CBS has made an agreement to avoid further legal trouble. According to the deal, CBS will pay for a license for \u201cLinus and Lucy,\u201d which the band played on air. <\/p>\n

The proceeds from the deal will be given to Chef Jos\u00e9 Andr\u00e9s’ World Central Kitchen, the charity that Colbert has supported for years. In the final months of the show, he began a campaign to sell things from the “Late Show” set, including ties he wore, props from segments, and other mementos. The proceeds all went to World Central Kitchen, totalling nearly $2.5 million. Variety didn’t indicate how much would be donated to the charity. <\/p>\n

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\u201cLMFP found the music\u2019s use on ‘The Late Show’ funny and entertaining, and is proud to support World Central Kitchen\u2019s mission,\u201d the group\u2019s chairman Jason Mendelson said. <\/p>\n

\u201cA principal goal of our enforcement actions is to educate individuals, businesses, and government entities about the need to obtain written license agreements to use music in a commercial setting,\u201d Mendelson added.<\/p>\n

A spokeswoman for CBS confirmed the two had reached an agreement but declined to comment further.<\/p>\n

Colbert’s “Meanwhile” segment is still on YouTube and has over 1.2 million views and the song remains in the video played by Louis Cato and the Great Big Joy Machine. <\/p>\n

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