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When a celebrity stops by The Late Show With Stephen Colbert<\/i>, they aren\u2019t there to lip-synch to a pop song. Colbert\u2019s approach has been marked, instead, by a sincerity that\u2019s rare in the 11:35 p.m. block: He had Joe Biden on during the coronavirus pandemic to discuss how to handle grief<\/a>, and a conversation with Dua Lipa about Colbert\u2019s Catholic faith<\/a> seemed to come out of nowhere, light but never flippant. Colbert, a veteran comedy performer, doesn\u2019t always take himself so seriously, of course; he was just as eager to ask former First Lady Michelle Obama to do an impression of her husband, Barack, and was delighted to hear the actor Saoirse Ronan speak in her native Irish accent.<\/p>\n

Colbert has never been shy about his intellectual bent. Whereas The Late Show<\/i>\u2019s prior steward, David Letterman, was happier to playfully bicker with guests, his successor took a surprisingly heady path. It ended up being the right one to chart: a calming counterbalance to Jimmy Fallon\u2019s bite-size-clip harvesting and the more pointed political work being done by his peers Jon Stewart, Seth Meyers, and John Oliver.<\/p>\n

Colbert has sprinkled earnestness amid the gags since he took the reins of The Late Show<\/i> more than 10 years ago. It\u2019s a tack unlike any other in late night; it will be unmistakably lost when he departs on May 21\u2014and missed by both his viewers and his guests. When the filmmaker Christopher Nolan presented the trailer for his new blockbuster, The Odyssey<\/i>, on the show earlier this month<\/a>, for instance, his appearance was a rarity for the press-shy Oscar winner. Even more distinctive was Colbert\u2019s eagerness to discuss the Homeric epic that Nolan was adapting: \u201cI know you don\u2019t do this very often\u2014don\u2019t do the late-night shows,\u201d Colbert told him. \u201cOnly you, actually,\u201d Nolan murmured in reply.<\/p>\n

Last July<\/a>, The Late Show<\/i>\u2019s network, CBS, announced that the program would end its run the following May; CBS called the decision a purely financial one in the face of changing viewer behavior. No doubt, watching TV live is becoming a thing of the past, and the glitzy nightly talk show that used to be a network cash cow has become a trickier economic proposition. But Colbert\u2019s forced departure <\/b>still raised many an eyebrow, given that CBS\u2019s parent company, Paramount Skydance, had recently settled a lawsuit<\/a> with President Trump over a 60 Minutes <\/i>interview and was angling for government approval of a potential takeover<\/a> of Warner Bros. Discovery. The president has made it clear that he is no fan<\/a> of Colbert, a frequent critic of his administration, and CBS seemed not to consider The Late Show <\/i>valuable enough to defend it against any similar blowback.<\/p>\n

Read: Why CBS snatched its talk-show king\u2019s crown<\/a><\/p>\n

The Late Show<\/i>\u2019s final season has been slightly odd and funereal, but that\u2019s largely just indicative of what the TV landscape is about to lose. What other comedian on the air would be able to, mid-interview, remind his guest that the poet Ovid actually went by his middle name? (\u201cThere you go\u2014you\u2019re pulling rank again,\u201d Nolan replied to Colbert\u2019s correction, adding, \u201cYou don\u2019t have to tell me, because I wouldn\u2019t know what the hell you were saying.\u201d) Colbert turned a program defined by Letterman\u2019s penchant for snark into something quite estimable: the classiest broadcast in late night, whose host was unafraid to embrace playfulness or throw a sharp elbow at the White House when necessary.<\/p>\n

The most intriguing thing about Colbert\u2019s Late Show<\/i>, though, has been the way that it didn\u2019t challenge the form. For decades, late-night TV has introduced trailblazers trying to break, or reinvent, the staid routine of stand-up monologues and celebrity chitchat. In the 1980s, Letterman caustically rejected the schmoozy style of Johnny Carson\u2019s Tonight Show <\/i>with his follow-on program, Late Night<\/i>. In the \u201990s, when Letterman took that vibe to CBS to launch The Late Show<\/i>, his replacement, Conan O\u2019Brien<\/a>, brought an anarchic, surreal approach that went on to influence a new generation of comedians. Colbert himself was the talk-show firebrand of the 2000s with The Colbert Report<\/i>, where he metamorphosed the sharp political comedy of Stewart\u2019s The<\/i> Daily Show <\/i>into a never-ending parody, a cable-news satire that doubled as a nightly piece of performance art.<\/p>\n

When CBS hired Colbert, I worried that the host of such a distinctly arch comedy show would be an odd fit for a bigger, more mainstream brand. Indeed, his early months on The Late Show <\/i>were rocky<\/a>; Colbert seemed uncertain about simply being himself after playing a character for so long. He brought back his Colbert Report <\/i>persona<\/a>, <\/i>had Stewart pop up in surprise gags, and generally struggled with how to differentiate himself while his time-slot mate, Fallon, pumped out goofy interviews and games at The Tonight Show <\/i>that produced viral clips. In 2016, CBS foisted a showrunner<\/a> on Colbert\u2019s program to give it more structure; around the same time, The Late Show<\/i> started to lean more heavily on political humor. Later, Colbert recalled<\/a> that his producer (and old friend) Paul Dinello had encouraged him in that direction, despite his trepidation to do so amid what he called in a New York Times <\/i>interview \u201cincreasingly contentious public discourse.\u201d According to Colbert, Dinello argued that topical jokes are \u201cthe part the audience wants to see.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read: David Letterman\u2019s long shadow<\/a><\/p>\n

Dinello was right, and The Late Show <\/i>eventually became late night\u2019s ratings leader\u2014a throne that CBS is now voluntarily abdicating. But although Colbert\u2019s performance frequently involved taking jabs at Trump and making pleas for common decency in America\u2019s politics, to me, these weren\u2019t what defined his tenure on the show. The clips I revisit the most speak to his empathetic nature, which revealed itself more and more as The Late Show <\/i>went on. Take his exchange<\/a> with Keanu Reeves, in which he asked the actor, \u201cWhat do you think happens when we die?\u201d (as part of a rapid-fire series), and Reeves pondered and replied, \u201cI know that the ones who love us will miss us.\u201d This moment of sweet profundity would have felt more jarring on Letterman\u2019s or O\u2019Brien\u2019s show, <\/b>but Colbert expanded it as a recurring feature: an existential questionnaire to pose to other celebrity guests, searching for an insightful peek into their brain; it\u2019s a much more tender version of a viral segment.<\/p>\n

I would love to see Colbert lean into his wackier side again once he is free of CBS; he remains an incredibly agile improviser who loves to go down the silliest rabbit holes when prompted. (His podcast appearances are a great example of that\u2014such as this hilariously complex tangent<\/a> about commuting in Chicago.) Possibly, he\u2019ll follow the same route that O\u2019Brien and Letterman have taken\u2014the former with his podcast, and the latter on Netflix\u2014doing long-form interviews with famous people that are unbound by the strictures of network TV. <\/b>Notably, however, the first post\u2013Late Show<\/i> project he\u2019s announced is co-writing a movie in the Lord of the Rings <\/i>universe<\/a>\u2014one of his deepest, nerdiest interests. <\/b>Losing The Late Show <\/i>will not diminish Colbert in the slightest, but it will diminish the medium of late-night TV, which enters its true twilight as a profitable source of entertainment for the masses.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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