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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on CBS. Subreddit for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on CBS Founded 2014 · 42K members

42K members. The best post we have captured here reached 10.3K upvotes, which works out to 244 per 1,000 members.

244peak upvotes per 1,000 members
42Kmembers
10.3Kbest post
409most comments
300posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

24% 22% 21% 17% 10%
Link 24% Image 22% Text 21% Video 17% Question 10% Gallery 6%

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Congratulations to the Cast & Crew!

↑ 10.3K 💬 69 image 2026

10/10. So fun.

↑ 8.4K 💬 171 image 2026

Colbert's firing sent Late Show audience into nose-dive so bad it's crashing CBS: report

↑ 8.2K 💬 409 link 2026

Stephen sports a tan suit at the Grand Opening Ceremony of the Obama Presidential Center today

↑ 7.6K 💬 82 image 2026

A Stephen Story

↑ 7.5K 💬 103 gallery 2026

Stephen Colbert's Late Show Wins An Emmy! ❤️

↑ 6.8K 💬 122 image 2026

CBS News Crisis Deepens As 60 Minutes Revolt And Stephen Colbert Fallout Expose Growing Internal Divisions

↑ 6.7K 💬 198 link 2026

CBS had to pay an undisclosed amount of money to Lee Mendelson Film Productions after Stephen Colbert played licensed music on his final show. The co…

↑ 6.7K 💬 73 video 2026

Gosh, they're lovely!

↑ 6.4K 💬 109 image 2026

Stephen Colbert getting cancelled and then returning THE NEXT NIGHT was not on my 2026 bingo card (pretty sure this violates the Geneva Convention or…

↑ 6.1K 💬 182 image 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/LateShow, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/LateShow?
r/LateShow ("The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on CBS") describes itself this way: Subreddit for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on CBS. It was founded in 2014 and has 42K members.
How many members does r/LateShow have?
r/LateShow has about 42K members. ViralHunt has tracked 300 of its posts; the biggest reached 10.3K upvotes, which is 244 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/LateShow?
"Congratulations to the Cast & Crew!" reached 10.3K upvotes and 69 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/LateShow.
What subreddits are similar to r/LateShow?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis, r/InvictaSolaris, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche.
What kind of posts do best on r/LateShow?
Of the posts we hold, 24% are link posts and 22% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/LateShow?
Across 300 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 02:00 UTC (3.6K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 08:00 UTC (2.9K avg upvotes), Saturday at 21:00 UTC (2.3K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Saturday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/LateShow?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/LateShow has 3.3K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 40 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/LateShow, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.