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Long before CBS announced it was pulling the plug on \u201cThe Late Show,\u201d its host Stephen Colbert had already laid claim to helming one of late-night\u2019s greatest finales.<\/p>

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The very last episode of \u201cThe Colbert Report,\u201d which aired in December 2014, closed with the host launching into a rendition of \u201cWe\u2019ll Meet Again,\u201d accompanied by Randy Newman playing a grand piano. Shortly after Colbert launched into its opening lines, his longtime \u201cDaily Show\u201d colleague Jon Stewart joined him onstage.<\/p>\n

Then the camera cut to Willie Nelson singing along beside Bryan Cranston, Doris Kearns Goodwin\u00a0and Francis Collins, who was then the director of the National Institutes of Health. From there, the stage slowly filled with former guests, more than 100 in all. There were rock stars, politicians, authors and community advocates; here was Toby Keith and conservative tax reform lobbyist Grover Norquist, there was street artist Shepard Fairey and Big Bird. Smaug the dragon from \u201cThe Hobbit\u201d made a special taped appearance, because why not?<\/p>\n

And at the end of it all, Colbert flew off in Santa\u2019s sleigh toting his prized Captain America shield, with unicorn Abraham Lincoln and \u201cJeopardy!\u201d host Alex Trebek, the man with all the answers. Bombastic yet intimate, fantastical yet sensible, Colbert\u2019s farewell to his Comedy Central audience and his conservative alter ego was about as lovely and loving as TV can be. It\u2019s as if he knew that was the last time he\u2019d be allowed to really get as weird as he wanted.<\/p>\n

Who knows if Thursday\u2019s last \u201cLate Show\u201d will be that adventurous? CBS and Colbert are keeping the guest roster a secret, with the network only teasing that it will run longer than the standard hour. It\u2019s not as if its overtime will throw off any other shows since \u201cThe Late Late Show\u201d and \u201cAfter Midnight\u201d preceded it in death.<\/p>\n

But when the last lights switch off in the Ed Sullivan Theater, the curtain also drops, perhaps permanently, on the brand of surreal, seat-of-your-pants comedy that former \u201cLate Show\u201d host David Letterman gifted to broadcast TV.<\/p>\n

Shortly after CBS announced it was ending \u201cThe Late Show\u201d last summer, Letterman posted a YouTube video montage of segments from his reign in which he gleefully lambasted CBS for disrespecting the show, summing it up with the description, \u201cYou can\u2019t spell CBS without BS.\u201d<\/p>\n

Absurdist comedy, the kind that was Letterman\u2019s, his \u201cLate Night\u201d successor Conan O\u2019Brien\u2019s and Colbert\u2019s specialty, is the very soul of free speech because it pushes honesty and truth past mundane notions of propriety. The absurdist\u2019s power rests in their ability to befuddle and bewilder, trusting the joke will land with the right folks and insult their target\u2019s intelligence.<\/p>\n

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Stephen Colbert and David Letterman. Photo: Scott Kowalchyk \u00a92026 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.<\/p><\/div>\n

Many people are mourning the end of \u201cThe Late Show\u201d as a casualty of the Trump administration\u2019s crackdown on free speech, enabled by corporate oligarchs. They are not wrong. But when it goes away, so do our nightly doses of Colbert\u2019s affable clowning, the kind that irritates thin-skinned despots in a way other comics can\u2019t quite match.<\/p>\n

Jimmy Fallon doesn\u2019t try. Seth Meyers is stupendous at hooks and jabs delivered at a lightning pace, but straightly, leaving the performance of absurdity to news headlines. Jimmy Kimmel, who most agree is next on the White House\u2019s hit list, delivers his jokes with blunt force in the same way we\u2019d imagine him doing while manning a grill with a beer in his hand.<\/p>\n

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When the last lights switch off in the Ed Sullivan Theater, the curtain also drops, perhaps permanently, on the brand of surreal comedy that former \u201cLate Show\u201d host David Letterman gifted to broadcast TV.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Next to them, Colbert plied his art slyly, even mildly, but regularly and in ways the nerdiest students of comedy could appreciate. Like, for example, when he recently invited Letterman back to \u201cThe Late Show\u201d for one last goodbye and recruited him to throw company furniture, watermelons and a three-tiered cake off the theater\u2019s roof.<\/p>\n

In a genre that runs on toothless punchlines, Colbert\u2019s commitment to the cheerful, zany weirdness he sharpened on the Second City stage and flaunted on \u201cStrangers with Candy\u201d ensured his bite broke the right villain\u2019s skin when warranted. The part that makes it work is his wisdom and sincerity.<\/p>\n

Granted, in the talk-variety host Hall of Fame, the Letterman wing is extremely exclusive. There\u2019s him, O\u2019Brien, Colbert as of Friday morning, and not many others. Television genealogists may point out that Colbert\u2019s branch of the talk show family tree is still represented by his Comedy Central brethren on \u201cThe Daily Show,\u201d including Stewart, and John Oliver on \u201cLast Week Tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n

But what Letterman did \u2013 first on \u201cLate Night with David Letterman\u201d on NBC, then to a lesser extent on \u201cThe Late Show\u201d \u2013 was add an element of unpredictability that was sometimes feral to our otherwise gentle bedtime routines. He introduced segments that didn\u2019t make sense, and shouldn\u2019t have been funny (and sometimes weren\u2019t), but they worked because they were cathartic.<\/p>

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Some were unhinged, like Crispin Glover\u2019s Kafkaesque break with reality\u00a0on \u201cLate Night,\u201d or the time on \u201cThe Late Show\u201d when Letterman seated an effigy of himself in a chair and proceeded to ceaselessly punch it, even after the audience\u2019s laughter died. Many of his gags cemented his genius way of blowing raspberries at power, including CBS bosses. That style of hosting understands the laws of physics and gravity, and gets what a release it can be to drop your overlord\u2019s precious things from a great height simply to enjoy the pleasure of watching them smash to bits.<\/p>\n

Colbert\u2019s version is gentler but also the most successful. He brought us in on the joke without losing sight of why we watched him in the first place: to glean whatever laughs we could not from his madness, but from the maddening state of the world. He knew the best way to battle malicious political lunacy is to show us what a joke it is, smiling brightly all the while.<\/p>\n

Colbert took the reins of Letterman\u2019s comedy tradition once he received the green light from CBS to reclaim the aspects of his Comedy Central self. Even so, \u201cThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert\u201d was and is sincere and wholesome, even moving at times. Letterman brought us back to ourselves in the wake of 9\/11. Colbert has reminded us of our humanity through this administration\u2019s endless string of catastrophes.<\/p>\n

Of course, the difference between the collegiality that defined the finale of \u201cThe Colbert Report\u201d and whatever \u201cThe Late Show\u201d does is about a dozen years of partisan tribalism and MAGA delusion. Most right-wing celebrities and politicians avoided sitting down with Colbert once the Trump era lurched into full-speed shambling.<\/p>\n

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Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, John Oliver, and Seth Meyers. Photo: Scott Kowalchyk \u00a92026 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.<\/p><\/div>\n

And in the show\u2019s final days, the roster of A-list guests who swung by to pay their respects fits the definition of the liberal elite: Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, former President Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen among them. Colbert named Pope Leo XIV as his dream guest for the finale, which is unlikely but certainly appropriate. They are on the same team, after all.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not referring to Colbert\u2019s Catholicism, but their shared place on the President\u2019s enemies list. CBS\u2019 official reason for canceling \u201cThe Late Show,\u201d the top-rated broadcast show of its kind, claimed that its model is no longer economically sustainable. While that was news to most people, including its host, everyone watching the merger of CBS\u2019s parent company, Paramount Global, and David Ellison\u2019s Skydance, must have assumed its completion would require some blood sacrifice. Just not this one.<\/p>\n

So when Colbert was fired shortly after he likened Paramount Global\u2019s $16 million payoff to settle Trump\u2019s ludicrous $20 billion lawsuit against \u201c60 Minutes\u201d to \u201ca big fat bribe,\u201d few people accepted the network\u2019s reason. Not even when sources estimated \u201cThe Late Show\u201d was losing $40 million a year. Having Colbert revert his political satire to its classic fighting form, then, only worked for CBS until it wasn\u2019t convenient. That was never far from our thoughts as we watched \u201cThe Late Show\u201d thrash, often jubilantly, against the coming night over the 10 months that the network gave it to bleed out.<\/p>\n

Selecting \u201cWe\u2019ll Meet Again\u201d as the sing-along tune to end \u201cThe Colbert Report\u201d was both nostalgic and symbolic. It was British songstress Vera Lynn\u2019s signature send off for soldiers on their way to the front in World War II, offered as an expression of kinship and a kind of prayer, an assurance that acknowledges uncertainty: \u201cWe\u2019ll meet again, don\u2019t know where, don\u2019t know when,\u201d says the chorus, \u201cBut I know we\u2019ll meet again some sunny day.\u201d<\/p>\n

That same spirit applies here, since this is not the end for Colbert any more than it was for Letterman or O\u2019Brien\u2019s exits from network TV. Letterman is enjoying his elder statesman status with an interview show on Netflix, \u201cMy Next Guest Needs No Introduction,\u201d that he makes on his own schedule. O\u2019Brien has a popular podcast, a travel show on HBO Max, is a two-time Oscar host and recently went viral with a bizarre meltdown on \u201cHot Ones\u201d reminiscent of one of his old \u201cLate Night\u201d tears.<\/p>\n

I doubt any of the post-\u201cLate Show\u201d options that Colbert is considering involve disappearing. Peter Jackson announced that Colbert \u2013 a J.R.R. Tolkien obsessive \u2013 and his son Peter McGee are collaborating with screenwriter Philippa Boyens on a new \u201cLord of the Rings\u201d film<\/span>, for one. Beyond that, I\u2019m sure any of the streamers would happily fork over an ungodly payday to have exclusive access to his talent.<\/p>\n

In any event, Colbert has recently voiced the epiphany that maybe his firing was a blessing: \u201c[It] takes a lot of bone marrow to do the show every day,\u201d he told People magazine. That\u2019s true. Trevor Noah left \u201cThe Daily Show\u201d after a seven-year run for similar reasons. \u201cAfter Midnight\u201d host Taylor Tomlinson came to that same conclusion in a slight year and a half. Both barely lost a step between their exits and full-time returns to the stand-up comedy circuit.<\/p>\n

The loss to network TV comedy, however, is massive \u2013 and given the viewership migration away from traditional broadcasters toward online platforms, something that can only be delayed, not avoided. \u201cAs we all understand, you can take a man\u2019s show,\u201d Letterman told Colbert. \u201cYou can\u2019t take a man\u2019s voice. So, that\u2019s the good news of this.\u201d We can sleep easier then, knowing we\u2019ll meet again \u2014 someplace other than CBS.<\/p>\n

The series finale of \u201cThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert\u201d airs at 11:35 p.m. Thursday, May 21 on CBS.<\/em><\/p>

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