CBS pays licensing fee for Stephen Colbert’s parting ‘Peanuts’ joke
NEW YORK — Funnyman Stephen Colbert got one last laugh at CBS by using music from “Peanuts” while joking that the publisher who owns those rights is famously litigious. “Oh no, I hope this doesn’t cost CBS any money,” he joked as his house band played a snippet from the “Peanuts” tune “Linus and Lucy,” by composer Vince Guaraldi, on the May 21 finale of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” ...