Jon Stewart stops by The Late Show to take some shots at CBS

There were also compliments toward Colbert, of course. “You have maintained such grace through this process,” said Stewart. The two went on to talk about their previous job losses, including the cancellation of The Jon Stewart Show in the mid 1990s, another Paramount-produced project that Stewart said had security guards watching the doors of the office during their last two weeks in production. “The show spiraled so out of control in those [days] because I was not a mature grown up like you are, holding it together. So we lost our shit,” said Stewart. “Letterman was our last guest. He said to me something very profound. He said: Don’t confuse cancellation with failure. And I thought that was profound. But then he said: But in this case, it is also a failure.” 

Later in the interview, Stewart offered a sarcastic defense of CBS, saying, “network television is built so that old people can solve fictional murders using forensics, that’s the whole purpose of it.” He also suggested one reason why he has been mostly spared the ire of the president that has followed his late night colleagues: “I don’t think Trump has cable… It’s a network thing.” Watch Stewart’s whole segment below.