Much has been said about Stephen Colbert ‘s May 21 curtain call on The Late Show . In fact, Colbert often jokes about it on air. But with less than a month to go, the late-night host sat down with the New York Times for a more serious assessment of the show’s finale. CBS  said the cancellation was “purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night” but Colbert has frequently pointed out that the verdict came two days after he called Paramount Global’s  $16 million settlement  of Donald Trump ’s lawsuit  a “big fat bribe” on the air. Still, he told the NYT, he does not want to argue. Watch on Deadline “I do not dispute their rationale. I do make jokes about it. But I also completely understand why people would say (A) that doesn’t make sense to me and (B) that seems fishy to me, because the network did it to themselves.” The comedian stressed that not arguing about one point does not mean another is invalid. “It’s possible that two things can be true.…