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The Colbert Report Calling It Quits:
‘We’ll Meet Again Some Sunny Day’
**Viral VIDEO**
Skippy Massey
Humboldt Sentinel
Colbert Nation. It’s all over except for the applause.
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After nine years on the air as host of the The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert is calling it quits and throwing in the sarcastic towel. Feared by many, hated by some, watched by all, Colbert is heading to CBS to take David Letterman’s Late Show spot in September.
He leaves an uncertain legacy for the media he revolutionized and the culture he altered. Without him on TV four nights a week, there is a truthiness-shaped hole in our national political discourse.
He promised his audience a revolution, and, said Colbert, “One revolution is 360 degrees right back to where we were.”
“Anyone can read the news to you,” he announced when The Colbert Report debuted in 2005. “I promise to feel the news for you.”
He kept that promise, which is how he came to define our era. For so many of us, Colbert sums up the absurdity of the Bush years, along with his hero and mentor Bill O’Reilly, whom he called Papa Bear. ”I emulate you,” he once told O’Reilly in a poignant appearance on Fox News. ”I want to bring your message of love and peace to a younger audience. People in their sixties, people in their fifties – people who don’t watch your show.”
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His rise in the media world was swift and ruthless. Soon after joining The Daily Show in 1997, Colbert attracted national attention for his uncompromising passion for the witty truth.
He was able to remarkably reduce complex issues to common-sense tidbits of comedy and satire, uninhibited by facts. He introduced America to the twin principles of “Truthiness” and “Wikiality,” where anything is true if it feels true, or if someone claims it is, correctly predicting, “The revolution will not be verified.”
And on his last night he signed off in his typical bombastic, authentic fashion.
“I know this is an emotional night for a lot of you,” he said during his opening. “If this is your first time tuning in to ‘The Colbert Report,’ I have some terrible news. This in fact is your last time tuning in to ‘The Colbert Report.”
The show went on as normal and ended with the sweet, emotional finale.
Colbert performed the 1939 tune We’ll Meet Again with a slew of famous friends he’s had on the show over the years: singers, actors, authors, politicians, rock stars, filmmakers, and news anchors alike. They included Jon Stewart, Willie Nelson, Tom Brokaw, Cyndi Lauper, Bryan Cranston, Big Bird, Jeff Daniels, Katie Couric, Ken Burns, Charlie Rose, Arianna Huffington, James Franco, Michael Stipe, Barry Manilow, Christiane Amanpour, Andy Cohen, and George Lucas, among others.
“All those incredible things that people say I did– none of that was really me,” Colbert said during his goodbye. ”You, the Nation, did all of that. I just got paid for it.”
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And then, Colbert rode away as quickly as he came into the pop culture media world. In a sleigh with Santa and Abraham Lincoln and Alex Trebek, adorned by his Captain America shield.
Colbert will be remembered for truth. Nobody summed up the current state of the American mind as brilliantly, as honestly, as terrifyingly as Stephen Colbert.
It’s somehow fitting that he left us so prematurely and under such mysterious circumstances. He will be missed – even if someone very much like him returns to the airwaves in the coming
months.
Night, night, nation.
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