Stephen Colbert’s daughter, Madeleine Carlisle, reportedly quit her job at 60 Minutes just two months after her father’s Late Show cancellation.
Carlisle, 30, spent the last four years at the CBS News show as an associate producer before she reportedly handed in her notice in recent days, reports Status. (Colbert and his wife, Evelyn McGee-Colbert, share three children: daughter Madeleine and sons Peter and John. Madeleine uses the last name “Carlisle” professionally.)
Carlisle first joined 60 Minutes in 2017 as an intern, going on to work for The Atlantic and Time magazine. She returned to 60 Minutes in 2022 as an associate producer for the long-running news show.
Us has reached out to 60 Minutes for comment regarding Carlisle’s reported departure.
Her exit from the CBS News show follows her father Stephen’s May 21 swan song as the host of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. CBS announced in July 2025 that it was cancelling The Late Show and ceasing all in-house late-night programming as of May 2026.
The network later reached a deal where producer and host Byron Allen‘s Allen Media Group bought air time from CBS in Colbert’s former timeslot to show its program Comics Unleashed.
CBS has denied accusations that its decision to cancel The Late Show was politically motivated despite reaching a $16 million legal settlement with President Donald Trump, who has been routinely critical of Stephen, 62, and other late-night hosts. (Trump settled his lawsuit against CBS after claiming a 60 Minutes interview with his 2024 presidential election opponent Kamala Harris was deceptively edited. CBS admitted no wrongdoing in the settlement.)
Meanwhile, 60 Minutes has also been at the center of controversy over the appointment of Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief of CBS News in October 2025. Weiss, 42, reportedly ruffled feathers behind the scenes by firing 60 Minutes producers Tanya Simon, Draggan Mihailovich and Matthew Polevoy, as well as correspondents Cecilia Vega and Sharyn Alfonsi, in May.
She appointed Vanity Fair special correspondent Nick Bilton as the new 60 Minutes executive producer, in addition to adding former British politician Trevor Phillips and conservative columnist Ross Douthat to its staff.
Amid all of the staff changes at 60 Minutes, longtime former correspondent Scott Pelley was fired in June following an allegedly heated meeting with Bilton. Pelley, 69, subsequently accused Weiss of trying to insert political bias into 60 Minutes reporting.
“For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified,” he told Deadline in June. “To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.”
Pelley went on to accuse Skydance Media, led by David Ellison, of “casting this legend [of 60 Minutes] aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration” after Skydance merged with CBS’ corporate owners, Paramount, in August 2025.
CBS News denied any accusations of political bias.
