Colbert's Long Farewell Was a Funeral for the Collective Culture of Late Night

Odd and epic and bittersweet, Thursday's 'Late Show' finale was the capstone of a farewell extravaganza that had been ...

Stephen Colbert's 'Late Show' ends with a swan song and a giant wormhole

With a dash of sci-fi, Colbert ended his CBS late-night show with a powerful musical sendoff featuring Paul McCartney, Elvis ...
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For Colbert, humanity was never a punch line

What’s most noteworthy about the late-night host is not his anger but the extent to which his comedy is grounded in empathy and rooted in values. If there were a Mount Rushmore of late-night TV hosts, ...